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Hide Expresses Condolences For Terror Victims
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 12:23 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today expressed his condolences for the victims of terrorist attacks in India's commercial capital, Mumbai. More >>
Roy: Speech to Albany Rotary
Friday, 7 July 2006, 9:14 am | ACT New Zealand
I've given a lot of thought over the years as to what to say when asked what I do by people who don't know me. Sometimes wife and mother seem the best answer and certainly these are my most important roles. Member of Parliament usually gets a stunned and ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Monday, 3 July 2006, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
The tragic deaths of twin boys Chris and Cru Kahui has still been very much on the minds of the New Zealand public this week. Radio talkback is still running hot and everwhere I go people express their horror at what must have been a terrible end ... More >>
Scalpel Needed For Health Red Tape
Friday, 30 June 2006, 2:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
Departing Waitemata District Health Board CEO Wayne Crombie is a loss both to the Board and to the public health system, says ACT Health Spokesman, Heather Roy. More >>
Labour's Failure Leaves Plunket Holding The Baby
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 1:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today's presentation of a petition calling on the Government to save Plunketline will be de'jà vu for people remembering an almost identical petition backed by Labour in 1999, says ACT Health Spokesman, Heather Roy. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary 23 June 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Returning to Parliament from the Territorials has been an interesting experience. In the Army everything revolves around teamwork and at Parliament the opposite is often true, although there was an exception this week with co-operation from across ... More >>
Small Parties 'Wag The Dog' On Microchipping
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 9:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Heather Roy describes this evening's Parliamentary defeat for Labour, with working dogs set to be exempted from compulsory microchipping, as a victory for small parties acting together. More >>
Reconsider Costly Wellington Health Lab Contract
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 4:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's Health Spokesman, Heather Roy, has written to the Minister of Health, asking him to reconsider his endorsement in Parliament yesterday of Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley District Health Boards' decision to charge for lab tests ordered by private ... More >>
Do You Trust Treasury, Or Mallard's Mates?
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 4:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Heather Roy is questioning why Treasury officials were forced to take a back seat to a union economist when Cabinet considered allowing State Owned Enterprises to invest outside their core areas of business. More >>
Aucklanders - Be Very Afraid
Monday, 19 June 2006, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
Aucklanders should "be very afraid" of the Auckland Regional Council's decision today to signal its intention to acquire control over the region's water and wastewater distributor, says Epsom MP, Rodney Hide. More >>
Warning For All In Wellington Health Contracts
Friday, 16 June 2006, 1:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy is warning that patients around the country can expect to receive a bill for laboratory tests if changes in Wellington's lab contracts are expanded. More >>
Hooks In Wellington Region Health Lab Contracts
Friday, 16 June 2006, 1:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
The announcement last week that Abano Healthcare and Sonic Healthcare have been contracted to provide laboratory services to Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley District Health Boards included hidden fishhooks, says ACT Health Spokesman, Heather Roy. More >>
Private Roy's Diary
Friday, 16 June 2006, 12:18 am | ACT New Zealand
After 6 weeks of basic training for the territorials at Waiouru Military Camp I 'marched out' at Queen's Birthday weekend. The training was hard - challenging both physically and psychologically - but it was also exciting and enjoyable. I graduated from recruit ... More >>
ACT Anti-Discrimination Bill To Be Debated
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide is pleased that his Bill to remove Government's exemption from anti-racial-discrimination rules in the Human Rights Act has been drawn from the ballot and will be debated by Parliament. More >>
Strike A Symptom Of Minister's Monopoly
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
While the junior doctors' strike is an operational matter between the doctors, their union and District Health Boards, the underlying problem is a monopoly employer, says ACT Health Spokesman, Heather Roy. More >>
Bitter Pill To Swallow For Wellingtonians
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
Capital and Coast District Health Board's cull of 1,800 people from waiting lists makes Wellingtonians the latest casualties of a sick public health system, says ACT Health Spokesman and Wellington-based MP, Heather Roy. More >>
What Use Is The Minister Of Auckland Issues?
Monday, 12 June 2006, 4:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Rodney Hide says it's totally unacceptable that Auckland can be plunged into a power blackout by a few hours of bad weather. "Years of neglect have seen Auckland's infrastructure degraded to a third world status", Mr Hide said. More >>
The Right Prescription For Healthcare
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 3:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
Strikes by junior doctors and reports of women waiting up to a year for mammograms will leave many Kiwis suffering from more than deja vu. The latest symptoms of our ailing health system require more than a sticking plaster solution, and with so few ... More >>
Heather Roy "Marches Out" From Territorials
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 9:28 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Heather Roy "marched out" as a Territorial Force soldier at the weekend, following six weeks of training at Waiouru military camp. More >>
SOE Expansion A Tragedy
Friday, 2 June 2006, 4:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour's encouragement of State Owned Enterprises to invest in areas outside their core business is a tragic policy, says ACT Leader Rodney Hide. More >>
