Policies and Facts

 5 policies that I really like

• Increase funding for animal welfare programmes 

• Implement a national action plan to help eliminate everyday racism and discrimination

• Work with schools to make school more inclusive for rainbow students

• Involve young people in policy decisions that affect them 

• Expand free school lunches programme 

6 facts about working in government 

• Members of parliament usually earn between $160,000 and $180,000 a year. 

• The Prime Minister's salary is set at $470,000.

• Most mayors and regional council chairs can earn between $52,000 and $190,000. The mayor of Auckland is New Zealand's highest paid mayor and earns about $270,000 a year.

• usually work full time, though some, particularly community board members, work part time and do other jobs.

• at least 18 years old.

• a New Zealand citizen.

New Zealand policies

For social studies we are looking at becoming Prime Minister, yesterday we were asked to look at the New Zealand Policies. On the NZ Policy site, there are a few tabs about different topics and if you click it there's even more. The one I focused on the most was community and inclusion. Here are the Policies that I liked most. 

Community and inclusion 

Animal welfare 

Increase funding for animal welfare programmes

Oppose most animal testing

Disability 

Continue increasing the number of learning support coordinators in schools 

Provide greater support for public leadership for the disability community

free expression and hate speech 

Implement a national action plan to help eliminate everyday racism and discrimination

Rainbow community 

Ensure healthcare is responsive to the needs of trans, intersex and gender diverse people

Work with schools to make school more inclusive for rainbow students

Increase funding for rainbow youth mental health services

Increase funding for rainbow youth mental health services

Young people 

Provide free counselling to everyone under 25

Involve young people in policy decisions that affect them 

Education 

schools 

Increase teacher professional development for literacy, numeracy and STEM subjects

Expand free school lunches programme 

Environment

Ban some hard to recycle single-use plastic items by 2025

Standardise kerbside recycling nationwide

NZ Policy

Types of Government

 Types of Government 

Democracy 

It is a government where people vote who their leader will be, for example, in New Zealand, we get to choose who will run the country.

Monarchy 

It is a system of government where a family of royals/ the king or queen lead a country or countries and if they abdicate the next member in line will lead the country/countries.

Dictatorship

Dictatorship is when one or more people have all the power to lead the country. 

Communism 

Communism is where it’s led by no one but the whole communism itself. 

Totalitarianism 

It is where a government has total control of its citizens including Their personal lives. 

Oligarchy 

A small group of privileged and wealthy people, for corrupted and selfish purposes. 

Anarchy 

It is where no one is in charge of a country and everyone has the freedom to do anything they want. 

My opinion 

Democracy, Monarchy and Communism 

I think it works better than the other coming from how we live and how it runs. I personally think It’s my favourite type of government. I think it works well because people are heard and they include their opinions and it comes to who is running the place. 

Totalitarianism, Dictatorship and Anarchy

It just seems really chaotic and when it comes to dictatorship and totalitarianism, I feel like people are just being bossed around but anarchy just seems like there are gonna be a lot of problems. 

Jacinda Ardern and Good Leadership Qualities

Jacinda Ardern 

• Shows empathy 

• Great speaker 

• Relatable to others 

• Respects everyone 

• Shows compassion

Important timeline of Jacinda Ardern

She is New Zealand’s 3rd female Prime Minister. She was 18 when she first joined the Labour party. She is the youngest female person to become a prime minister.

1980 was when Jacinda Ardern was born.

She joind the Labour party in 1999.

In 2005 she went to Britin for an Overseas experience.

2008 was when she was first elected to be an MP in the general election.

At 28 years old she joined The House of Representatives as the youngest member

In 2017 she was elected to be New Zealand’s Prime Minister and became the youngest head of government in over 150 years. 

March 15 was when people saw her in a different way, the compassionate and empathic side of her. 

In 2020 she received global praise for how she handled Covid-19 resulting in being crowned the “best responder”. 

During the white island tragedy she comforted the first responders with hugs and that became iconic.

Personal thoughts 

The qualities that I think are important in a leader are…

• Listens to the people

• Compassionate

• Shows empathy

• Great speaker

I think Jacinda Ardern shows those qualities and that's what makes her a good leader. 

The source that I used is right here.

Via: britannica,Time