1News published this video item, entitled “Highlights: Young Voters’ Debate | 1News Election 2023 Recap” – below is their description.
Six political parties got to pitch for the youth vote at the TVNZ Young Voters’ Debate.
The “cost of surviving”, housing, rainbow rights and climate change were some of the hot topics.
The candidates who appeared on behalf of their parties were Labour MP Arena Williams, National MP Erica Stanford, ACT MP and deputy leader Brooke Van Velden, Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick, Te Pāti Māori candidate Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and New Zealand First candidate Lee Donoghue.
Hosted by Re: News’ Anna Harcourt and 1News’ Isaac Gunson.
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Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.
Climate Change is the name commonly given to the notion that the Earth is undergoing a changing climate as a result of human activity, including notable leaders, scientists and naturalists including Sir David Attenborough.
Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns.
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres.
Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.
