New Zealand general election

Scotland where she was educated. In 1862 Kate’s father died and in 1869 Kate moved to New Zealand with her mother, two brothers and a sister. They arrived in Lyttelton on 8 February 1869 on the Matoaka. On 21 July 1871 Kate married Walter Allen Sheppard. He had been a Christchurch City councillor in 1868. Kate and Walter had one son named Douglas who was born in 1880. In 1885 Kate became a founding member of the New Zealand Women’s

Changing the Electoral System Canada’s friendly neighbor to the South, the US, has an electoral system that is composed of 3 separate elections, one of them deciding the head of state. The president elected by the people and he or she is the determining person of the country’s political system. In the US runs like a majority system” In Canada, however, elections are held slightly differently. Citizens vote for a Member of Parliament in a 308-seat house and candidates win not by a majority, unlike

parliament in order to stay in power, through votes of confidence and supply. Follwing the implentation of MMP in New Zealand, a wider diversity of parties have become part of parliament. On account of that, while it is still possible for a party to win the majority seats in parliament, it is very difficult to do so; Church (2015) states that this has not happened in the last four elections. As a result, MMP has impacted on the relationship between the executive and parliament by making the executive

the communist witch hunts which occurred as a symptom of this communist paranoia in America. I will look at the effects of these events on groups and individuals in American society, and finally the carry on effect of this communist paranoia into New Zealand and the way in which this influenced our society, as well as the lasting impact this has on our society now. The communist paranoia that occurred in America during the period of 1947-1957 has come to be known as the ‘Second Red Scare’. This was

Historically New Zealand has had an industrial relations system based on principles of collective bargaining, with union and employer representatives negotiating minimum employment terms and conditions. The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894 established principles of; wage fixing through conciliation and arbitration; multi-employer awards; blanket coverage of conditions; compulsory union membership; and compulsory arbitration. This system served New Zealand for almost a century with

Located on the Hauraki Plains just a few minutes from the Matatoki township is a humble and quintessentially New Zealand business -The Matatoki Cheese Barn. There a café and gift shop rest in the tranquillity of a classical farming setting, a tribute to the cheese barns true speciality, the manufacture of organic bio-grown dairy products (The Cheese Barn [TCB], 2016). This locally owned and operated business has been producing award winning cheeses for over 20 years (Pauanui Launch, 2016) and the

between 2006 and 2013. The main ethnicities identified within the city are Asian, European, Pasifika, Middle Eastern/Latin American/African and New Zealander, with around one in ten people identifying as Māori (Auckland Council, 2013). Table 2: Ethnicity, 2013 (Auckland Council 2013 Census) Auckland New Zealand Auckland as a proportion of New Zealand Count % Count % % European 789,306 59.3 2,969,391 74.0 26.6 Māori 142,767 10.7 598,602 14.9 23.9 Pacific Peoples 194,958 14.6 295,941

Electoral Reform in Canada The issue of electoral reform has become more important than ever in Canada in recent years as the general public has come to realize that our current first-past-the-post, winner-take-all system, formally known as single-member plurality (SMP) has produced majority governments of questionable legitimacy. Of the major democracies in the world, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the only countries that still have SMP systems in place. Interestingly

Facts Ngāti Korotuohu is an iwi (tribe) whose traditional tribal sea and land domain, known as Waihau, is a territory which includes a large natural harbour and coastline of approximately 100 kms in the north-west of the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The area of Waihau is approximately 2,400 square hectares, much of that being bordered by the sea and they often engaged in deep sea fishing 15 kms out to sea. Most of Waihau has been passed down from generation to generation since the beginning

Democratic state and one main component is the capacity of the government to conduct an election to allow the people to voice their needs in the national level. Election is the heart or the core of a democratic state , removing this would deprive the people of their right. After five years or if the Parliament was dissolved by the Queen with of course the Prime Minister's advise, there will be an election using the "First-past-the-post" electoral system. Here the candidates can win seats in the