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Rates Bill Puts New Zealanders First
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide, promoter of a Bill to cap increases in local body rates, says ratepayers should be furious that New Zealand First seem set to deny the public a chance to make submissions by voting against his Bill next week. More >>
Kiwis Paying The Price Of Parole
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 1:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Proposed changes to parole announced today are an admission that parole is a failed experiment, says ACT National Security Spokesman, Heather Roy. "We are paying the price of a culture that penalises the innocent and forgives the criminal, with around ... More >>
Eight Days Until Crucial Vote For Ratepayers
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 10:23 am | ACT New Zealand
Ratepayers have just eight days until MPs decide on whether the cost of local government rates continues to climb, says ACT Leader Rodney Hide. More >>
Think Globally, ACT Locally
Monday, 14 August 2006, 9:15 am | ACT New Zealand
It's good to be back in Christchurch. It's like coming home for me. I grew up in Rangiora, North Canterbury. I studied ecology at Canterbury University. I lectured environmental science down the road, at Lincoln. ACT has since become the only completely ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Winter Ills, Ailing Hospital
Friday, 11 August 2006, 4:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Winter came early this year, and with it, the usual winter flus and illnesses. Hospitals around the country have struggled to cope with an influx of patients requiring hospital beds, and patients booked for elective surgery have been the casualty, with some ... More >>
ACT Launches Rates Direct Mail Campaign
Monday, 7 August 2006, 12:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Garry Mallett, ACT's party president, has launched a website and direct mail campaign to encourage ratepayers to actively support limiting increases in local body rates. "This campaign, by supporting Rodney Hide's Bill to cap rates, aims to make local ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: What Happened to Punishment?
Friday, 4 August 2006, 2:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Last November the small yellow ACT campaign bus was stolen and taken for a joy ride by two 13 year old girls. They should have been at school. Instead, they had found their way along a quiet road, went on to a private property and discovered the ACT ... More >>
ACT Regulatory Responsibility Bill Drawn
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide is pleased that his Regulatory Responsibility Bill has been drawn from the Ballot and will be debated by Parliament. More >>
Time For Better Central And Local Government
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 3:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
Speech to ACT Auckland Regional Conference, Squid Row, Auckland, Sunday 30 July 2006. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Local Government Rates
Saturday, 29 July 2006, 4:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
Every year, around June and July when council plans for rate increases are announced and people start receiving increased rate demands in the mail, we receive a large number of letters and emails about local body rates. While increasing taxes is commonly ... More >>
Hide: Putting Ratepayers In Control Of Local Govt
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
Auckland's residential rates are set to rise 13.8% this year. In the last three years Wellington City Council's rates take has increased by 20.5%, Christchurch City Council's by 19.4% and Hamilton City Council's by 15.2%. The average increase in rates, across ... More >>
Financial Exploitation Of Water Supply Must Stop
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
Aucklanders should demand removal of retail companies' monopoly over water, as competition is the only way to stop water being used as a weapon to plunder local ratepayers, says ACT Leader and MP for Epsom, Rodney Hide. More >>
Swap Red Tape For Green Ribbons
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 10:14 am | ACT New Zealand
Wellington-based ACT MP Heather Roy has today added her support to the Green Ribbon campaign launched by fellow MP Mark Blumsky to assist the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. More >>
Will Local Body Rates Cost The Family Home?
Monday, 24 July 2006, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide says the case of a Wellington man, who's been told that he should sell his family home if he can't pay the rates, shows why it's important for a Select Committee to consider his Bill to cap rates increases. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary - 21 July 2006
Friday, 21 July 2006, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
Medical Treatment for Foreigners; The Remarkable Senator John McCain; Irritable Foreign Minister Syndrome More >>
The Most Dangerous Year For Child Abuse
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 5:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Heather Roy has released answers to Parliamentary Questions which show that of the worst five months for child abuse, three have been in 2006. More >>
Talking Or Taking Action On The Health Workforce
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 4:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Health Minister Pete Hodgson today admitted in Parliament that the distribution of General Practitioners around the country was creating problems, says ACT Health Spokesman, Heather Roy. More >>
Govt Health Workforce Planning A Sick Joke
Monday, 17 July 2006, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Millions of dollars have been poured into the Health Workforce Advisory Committee, and the 'action committee' on the health workforce announced two months ago still doesn't exist, according to parliamentary questions received by ACT's Health Spokesman, ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary 14 July 2006
Friday, 14 July 2006, 5:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
Over the last few weeks I have been researching the subject of child abuse following the death of the Kahui twins. Much of the research involves the analysis of statistics, which can be dull, but there is one set that stands out like a beacon. It comes from ... More >>
Waste Management Begins At Home - ACT
Friday, 14 July 2006, 3:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
Proposals from the Greens and Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to impose levies and charges on waste are punitive, when people could take their own less expensive measures to minimise the waste their households produce, says ACT Leader Rodney Hide. More >>
