How does a Bill become an ACT

How does a Bill become an ACT?

A Bill goes through 7 stages to become an act. These acts or Laws protect

our rights, property and us. 

1. Introduction

The introduction is when the bill is introduced to the house.

2. First Reading

The first reading is when members of the parliament(MPs) debate on whether

or not the bill should move onto the select committee or if it should be denied.

3. Select committee

This stage is a select committee of MPs that carefully examine the bill. They

listen to views of the public, interested organisations that recommend ammendments
to report back to the house.

4. Second reading
The second reading is when the bill is returned back to the house along with the
recommendations of the select committee. Members consider it and decide
whether it should move on to the committee of the whole house.

5. Committee of the Whole House
MPs debate the bill and examine each part carefully bit by bit.

6. Third reading
In this stage members of the parliament study the consequences if the bill becomes a
law.

7. Royal assent
The Governor General signs the bill on behalf of the sovereign to become an Act or LAW.

Why we need LAWS?

Why we need LAWS?

A LAW is something that sustains us from doing wrong. We need laws
to protect us, our property and our environment. If we had no laws, imagine
a world with complete chaos. It wouldn't be a safe environment for you and
everybody else. But if we did have laws, consequences will be given to people
who do wrong and it provides a secure environment. Laws are very important
on earth because it equals out everyone and no one is above or under anybody
else.

Greens target foreign land buyers bottling NZ water in review of Overseas Investment Act

I definitely agree that foreign land owners should not be allowed to

sell New Zealand bottled water overseas. Why? Because foreign

land buyers are extracting New Zealand's natural resources(water)

for the benefit of earning money.It doesn’t do any good for New

Zealand citizens except wasting it on other countries. So I simply

agree with the green party, they’ve made many reasonable reasons

for why foreign land buyers should not sell bottled water overseas.

Including Marama davidson who quoted "We need to ensure that we

are not giving away this resource to international corporations to reap

profits from at the expense of New Zealand's best interests," as well as

"Water should not be for sale to the highest bidder. Changing the law

is a key step towards protecting it for the generations ahead," Greens

co leader Marama davidson said.

Perspective on banning plastic bags

Today in Social studies, I read an article about Simon bridges 

thinking the banning of plastic bags is a big distraction and 

won't make any difference. 

I definitely agree that it is a big distraction plus a waste of time.

Supermarkets are already making a difference by putting a price

to buying plastic bags and by banning it won't make that much

of a difference. It also makes more issues for the prime minister

while she already has enough on her shoulders. 

It will have an impact for New Zealanders because they'd have 

to buy Recycles bags for when they go shopping and this is a 

big impact because plastic bags are what most stores use in New

Zealand on an everyday basis.  This applies to Jacinda because 

every problem with the banning of plastic bags, she would have 

to deal with it. Even when she has a baby who is only a couple 

months old. 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

What problems did you face? 

• Wondering how we would survive
• Making peace with new survivors on the island
• Thinking about all the solutions for our problems and seeing which one was best
• How we were going to respond to the pirates

How did you solve problems? 

• Debating on what we thought was best to survive 

Who made the decisions?

• Everyone in the group

Was their one person who made most of the decisions? If so why?

• Yes, because with one person in charge of the decisions then it wouldn't be much harder for the group. Since everyone might disagree with one another. 

How did you decide on who would be the leader?

• We thought about who can care for our well-beings, is kind and thoughtful to others and who knows best about surviving on the island. 

Why did we complete this task?

• To discuss with one another about all the decisions and it gives an example about our next subject, which is to do with the government. For example, being on an island means caring for one another, communicating, finding ways to survive and making sure everyone is fed. While being a government also means caring for your people and seeing which decisions are best for the country. As you can see, they both have some kind of connection with each other. 

Migration Model

In this migration model, explains why people migrate.

People migrate for either push and pull reasons. Push

reasons are reasons that are pushing them out of their

country to migrate somewhere else. Pull reasons are

reasons that lure the person into that country for better.

In this migration model I have done, shows how much

migrants who travel from Tokelau to New Zealand. As

you can see, the arrow on top is more thicker than the

arrow down bottom.This is because people migrate to

New Zealand more times than people migrate to Tokelau.

This is a pull reason because people migrate to New

Zealand from Tokelau because its for better education

and for a better life. A push reason in this scenario would

be leaving your family behind . This is why push reasons

have a negative impact while pull reasons have a positive

one.

Key concepts - Globalisation

During my lesson in social studies I have been learning

new vocabulary related to my subject about Globalisation.

Two words that I have learnt are sustainability and Migration.

Sustainability means being at a certain rate or level that

is stable . As an example , your on a lever and you need to

be in a certain place to be stable . That certain place

would be the middle of the lever and there you will find

sustainability. The definition of migration means moving

from one place to another . Birds always migrate due to

the weather changing so they’d have to adapt to the new

place, just like humans when we move to different

countries. As a result I have clearly understood the meaning

of these words and hopefully I would be able to use these

words in the correct order in any writing that relates to my topic.

Current events - Knife wielding man shot dead by police

Today in social studies I have been learning about thing
happening around the world even in my area and I noticed
a crime that happened in Queensland Australia. It was about
a 31 year old man who was armed with a knife trying to break
into his ex girlfriend's house and threatening her for unknown
reasons. A police entered the area with his taser but it was
ineffective and there were people's lives at risk so he nothing
else to do but shoot the man. The ending of this break down
story wasn’t good because the man did end up dead. But in
the incident there were shouting heard from neighbours from
the man telling the police to shoot me . As well as the police
having no other choice but to shoot the man because his taser
wasn’t active.So there were two sides of the story but it was
alleged. But from my point of view I think the police shouldn’t
have shot the man but talk him through into leaving the place
and calling back up so there wouldn’t be any shoots happening.
It would of been better if the man was in jail instead of him being
dead.