Political Decision-Making

 Hello everyone.

This week on our heroes work we have been learning about 'political decision-making'. We mainly talked about the two main political decisions in NZ. The first one is how we select our government and the second one is about passing new laws. To choose a government for NZ we, kiwis have to cast two votes. One, we have to vote for who we want to represent us locally and another vote of which party we want governing New Zealand. These general elections usually happen every three years.

For passing a new law difficult steps are concluded. Before a law is decided it is considered as a 'bill', it is similar to what you might call a 'draft'. First the bill has to be announced to parliament and then passed on to a group of MP. This group of MPs then invites the public to have their own say. It then gets reviewed by the 'House' with any suggested changes. If it survives the second reading ( the review) it will then be discussed furthermore though this time concluding the whole house, this was the last chance the bill could be changed.  The bill will then get its third and final reading, if it survives it will be confirmed by the Clerk of the house which will be then sent to the Governor-General for royal approval before becoming an official New Zealand law.

These steps are similar to what our class had to go through to create our class treaty. We went into groups which each had a topic to write rules for. The four topics were,  Commitment, Achievement, Resilience and Respect. After we made a few propositions it was then reviewed by others, quite similar to the second reading. Then the whole class reviews it and then we sent it our final format to our teacher. A few changes were made and then our class signed the treaty similar to the royal asset.

Here is a video example:

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Thank you for reading this blog post.

Have you made a rule or treaty that is quite similar to what the 'steps of passing a law' had to go through?