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Action, Not Reports, Needed At CCDHB
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 10:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today labelled the confidential health report into Capital & Coast DHB leaked to the 'Dominion Post' little more than bureaucratic rhetoric, and said that it was a document clearly written ... More >>
Independent Trouble-Shooter Needed For CCDHB - Roy
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 10:10 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today called for Capital & Coast District Health Board members to be stood down, and called for an independent commissioner to be appointed to resolve the terminal crisis at the ... More >>
Tragedy Highlights Dangers In Maternity Services
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:01 am | ACT New Zealand
The death of a newborn baby girl just hours after she and her mother were discharged early from Wellington Hospital is a terrible calamity - one which highlights the very real dangers that have arisen from the crisis currently faced by maternity services ... More >>
Jets For Sale: Finance Available, No Deposit
Friday, 30 November 2007, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand National Security Spokesman Heather Roy today said that Treasury documents obtained under the Official Information Act reinforce her view that the sale of the Air Combat Wing is doomed, and show that potential buyers for the Skyhawks ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: 0800 DAY OFF
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:36 am | ACT New Zealand
One could be forgiven for assuming this is the number for a tourist company wanting to help you part with your cash when looking for something to do on your day off - think again. More >>
Plans Afoot To Re-Commission Aermacchis
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand National Security Spokesman Heather Roy today released new information showing that plans are already well underway to have the de-commissioned Aermacchi jets returned to the air in a training capacity. More >>
New Birthing: Give Birth, Get Paid, Go Home
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
Capital & Coast DHB's plan to bribe new mothers into leaving Wellington Hospital is a total cop out that will see mothers most in need suffer the greatest, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Wellington Central And Heather Roy - Speech
Friday, 23 November 2007, 10:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech to ACT Wellington Candidate Launch; The Museum Hotel, Cable Street, Wellington; 6:30pm, Thursday, November 22 2007 More >>
Heather Roy For Wellington Central
Friday, 23 November 2007, 10:52 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today announced that she will stand as the ACT New Zealand candidate for Wellington Central in the upcoming 2008 General election. More >>
EFB's Abhorrent Principles Untouched
Monday, 19 November 2007, 2:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Electoral Finance Bill is the most serious assault on free speech and political expression ever seen in the developed world - and the recent amendments to it have changed nothing, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Civil Servants - Respecting The Boundaries
Friday, 16 November 2007, 10:40 am | ACT New Zealand
Mention of civil servants often generates thoughts of British comedy 'Yes Minister', with many quick to recount their favourite episode of Sir Humphrey getting his own way while appearing to appease his political master. More >>
Missed Turn For Wellington Traffic
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today revealed that the Wellington region's new rail units - 90 percent of which are to be funded by the Labour Government - will emit twice as much carbon dioxide as buses. More >>
Peace And Freedom At 11 On The 11th Of The 11th
Friday, 9 November 2007, 12:01 am | ACT New Zealand
Most countries have a day to honour their war dead. For most of the Allied participants in WWI, that day is November 11 - the date that the armistice was signed on the Western Front in 1918. Although Germany was still theoretically at war with Britain and France ... More >>
Laws To Learn The Hard Health Lesson
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
Wanganui District Health Boardmember Michael Laws' enthusiasm for representing his community is laudable - but he will soon learn that he is expected to do nothing more than tow the Labour Government line, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather ... More >>
Cunliffe Follows Mis-Guided Footsteps
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 4:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Health Minister David Cunliffe was completely out of line when he blamed Boardmembers for the raft of problems being faced by the beleaguered Capital & Coast District Health Board, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Anything Now Goes In Parliament - Hide
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide was today disappointed that Speaker Margaret Wilson had turned down his complaint of privilege against Labour Minister Trevor Mallard for assaulting National MP Tau Henare. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 2 November 2007, 2:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week's news was dominated by Prime Minister Helen Clark's Cabinet re-shuffle - a re-shuffle so conservative that it bordered on timid. More >>
Healthcare Choice The Answer
Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 12:19 am | ACT New Zealand
It is encouraging to learn from the Health Funds Association of New Zealand that 1.38 million Kiwis now save the public health system around $400 million a year by having health insurance - more Kiwis clearly realise that our over-stretched public ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 12 October 2007, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand
This week I was invited to speak to a special forum at Victoria University, where the topic of discussion was: "the effect of anti-terrorism laws on civil liberties and whether the right balance has been struck". My speech can be found at www.act.org.nz/civil_liberties_have_we_reached_the_right_balance More >>
PHO Scheme To Blame For After-Hours Crisis
Friday, 12 October 2007, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
The crisis with 'after hours' care on the Kapiti Coast is due, not just to a doctor shortage but also, to a complete lack of foresight by those designing the PHO scheme, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
