Vote

Find a map which shows the Tauranga electorate and the Bay of Plenty electorate?

Which electorate do you live within?

Tauranga

List the candidates for the Tauranga electorate and the Bay of Plenty electorate.

Tauranga:

Simon Bridges

Nathaniel Heslop

Rachel Jones

Rusty Kane

Yvette Lamare

Ian Mclean

James Maxwell

Clayton Mitchell

Verna Ohia-Gate

Michael O'Neill

Stuart Pedersen

Bay of Plenty:

Ray Dolman

Brendan Horan

Tracy Livingston

Todd Muller

Ben Rickard

Clare Wilson

Deborah Cunliffe

Which candidate would you vote for and why?

How long has the Tauranga electorate existed?

Has the Tauranga MP over its history been mainly National or mainly Labour?

When was the last election?

When was Winston Peters the MP for Tauranga?

MMP voting system

Explain our MMP voting system (Mixed Member Proportional)

So say if a party gets 30% of the votes it will get 36 stets.

so if a party wins 20 electorate seats it will have 16 list MPs in addition.

you have to have more then 5% of votes to get stets.

Civilian

Investigate The Civilian Party. What are some of their policies?

Ice cream 
Replace New Zealand’s national anthem
Reform the tax system
Make Wellington airport safer by moving it to Christchurch.
Relegalise illegal legal highs

Reform the Justice system so that every citizen is required to prove why they shouldn’t be in prison

You want to set up a political party in this coming election. How do you do that?

1. An acceptable party name (and any abbreviation).
2. Satisfactory evidence of at least 500 eligible members.
3. Statutory declarations from its party secretary concerning membership, intention to contest general elections and advising of any component parties.
4. Party membership rules showing what is required for current financial membership, and candidate selection rules which provide for the democratic involvement of members in the process.
5. An auditor (or person who has agreed to be auditor when the party is registered).
6. A party secretary with a postal address and contact details.
7. Either the secretary, or a sitting MP who is a current financial member of the party, to make the application.
8. $500 application fee.

Name your party

The New Zealand United Dream (NZUD)

Create a policy for

HEALTH

Your hoptillps bill will be free when you get Ingrid.

EDUCATION

You will get 5000 dolars for your education when you go to unvrisy.

DEFENCE

You are not allowed a gun at your house.

BUSINESS

If you are starting up a business you will get 3000 dolars towards it.

ENVIRONMENT

There we be more parks in NZ.

3 OTHER POLICIES OF YOUR CHOICE

Electoral system

Create a Venn diagram comparing the NZ electoral system of government with the electoral system of government of another country.

War

Create dialogue for this image. Include tag lines.

All the sound is from the turks rubbling past us. "Holt!" I shouted. 

"What is going on?" asked Jim. 

"There is the enemy," I quietly whispered back to him.

"How many of them?" question Bill.

"To many for us to fight," I whispered back. "Get down" I scammed at my pontoon.

"Why did we jump into the bushes" Queried Jim.

"They had a tank turret aimed right at us" I replied. BANG went the tank shell into the ground dirt went up into the air it became like a smokescreen for us. Our tanks have been blown up and we are all on our own.         

    

Trip Gone Wrong

I am in Russia and I have been here for 2 mouths and I do not now how to speak there language. I went to Russia on on a plane I was traveling around the world to all deferent countries and I lost my passport in Russia. I was not alone on my trip there was my best friend Bob and Nick you work with me. Bob was tall with blue eyes and blond hair Nick was not like Bob he had brown hair and green eyes. I lost my passport I got pick pocked I had now idea that it was happing. Now I can not keep going on my trip and I will have to get a new passport in Russia. I thought I look for the thief all over town. I was getting some food with my friends and this guy was fowling us and it was really scary because he had a knife in his hand. He had brown hair and brown eyes he look like some guard of some sort. He stared to run at us and I said "run guys!" it was really hard to run thought the streets of Russia because it was packed with people then I got tripped. The guy finally caught up to me he was so out of breath and red it looked like he was going to faint. The he said to he "Is this your passport?" "yes it is" I replied. Then I asked "were did you find it" "I swore the guy steel it" "Why did you have a knife?" I took it of the guy.      

story

I have been on the plant 248 days I think.
To discover new life for NASA.
One of the two people with me are Nick a tall skinny guy with long black hair age 32.
The other person is Mike averagely tall 25 years of age shot blond.  
We were flying to the Gurus but we got chipped on the side of your ship and had a crash landing on Joter.
We left the ship because it was about to blow up and got a far away as possible from it.
The kid of life we were looking for was plant life and water.
We had been walking for 187 days and then I turn around and swore a flash of green jumping behind a rock.
The thing was running too another rock and it had tripped over he was green all over and had 4 eyes 6 arms 2 legs it was disturbing looking at it.
It got up and run at us all three of as turn and bolted away as fast as we could then I tripped.
Nick and Mike didn't relays that I had fell but the thing caught up with me and said.
I have fixed your ship and my friends are bring here now but can you stay with us to have diner.