Choices the prime minister has been choosing to make in terms of making choices going forward in the choosing-to-make-choices space
1. What was the main conceptual basis for regional councils?
a. Optimise free-market supply-side competition going forward
b. Manage natural resources within ecological and hydrological systems
c. Line up with super rugby boundaries
d. Align with local iwi
2. Regional councils are primarily responsible for managing what?
a. Getting our mojo back and not being so whiney and inward-looking
b. Natural resources like water, air, and soil
c. Roads and footpaths
d. Dog control, noise complaints, libraries
3. What legislation defines most regional council responsibilities?
a. Make Auckland Great Again Starring Rodney Hide Act 2011
b. Resource Management Act 1991
c. Wage and Prices Stabilisation Act 1951
d. Public Works Act 1911
4. Which of the following is NOT typically a regional council responsibility?
a. Managing air quality
b. Building consents
c. Flood control and river management
d. Regional land transport planning
5. The two-tier local government system (regional and territorial) in New Zealand is based on the principle of what?
a. Survival of the fittest
b. Decisions made at the most local level possible
c. Different levels handle different types of services
d. The five-second rule
6. A Regional Policy Statement must do what?
a. No harm
b. Provide an overview of resource management issues in the region
c. Our best, Akela
d. Keep Andrew Hoggard sweet
7. If you’re rich and sorted but you don’t like to pay your fair share to keep our happy little nation held together, what can you do?
a. Appeal to the council about the valuation on your Waiheke McMansion
b. Talk smack about councils and bike lanes
c. Talk smack about regional councils
d. Fidget with your laser
e. All of the above
8. Based on the choices the prime minister has been choosing to make in terms of making choices going forward in the choosing-to-make-choices space, what kind of environmental choices has he been making?
a. Pretty fucken average ones
b. Sophie’s
c. Only the ones that get you a rebate on your Tesla
d. All of the above
Answers
1. What was the main conceptual basis for regional councils?
b. Manage natural resources within ecological and hydrological systems
New Zealand’s regional councils were established in their current form in 1989 as part of a major local government reform that replaced hundreds of older, smaller bodies. This reform consolidated the old system into 86 local authorities, including 13 regional councils, to manage land, water, and air resources.
2. Regional councils are primarily responsible for managing what?
b. Natural resources like water, air, and soil
3. What legislation defines most regional council responsibilities?
b. Resource Management Act 1991
4. Which of the following is NOT typically a regional council responsibility?
b. Building consents
5. The two-tier local government system (regional and territorial) in New Zealand is based on the principle of what?
c. Different levels handle different types of services
6. A Regional Policy Statement must do what?
b. Provide an overview of resource management issues in the region
It must identify regionally significant resource management issues, outline objectives and policies to address them, and provide a framework for subordinate regional and district plans to give effect to its direction. It must also give effect to national policy statements and standards. It sets out the what and how for managing natural and physical resources like land, water, and biodiversity, but it does not contain its own rules.
7. If you’re rich and sorted but you don’t like to pay your fair share to keep our happy little nation held together what can you do?
e. All of the above
8. Based on the choices the prime minister has been choosing to make in terms of making choices going forward in the choosing to make choices space, what kind of environmental choices has he been making?
d. All of the above
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