- Heather Roy
The
New Zealand politician Heather Roy (5 March 1964 - ), based inKarori (inWellington ) has served as aMember of Parliament since 2002 and as Deputy Leader of theACT New Zealand party.Before entering politics, Roy worked as a
physiotherapist . She and her husband Duncan, a doctor, have five children.In the 1999 elections ACT ranked her tenth on its
party list , and she narrowly missed out on a seat in Parliament. In the 2002 elections, however, ranked ninth, she won election as a list MP.In
June 2005 , she won promotion from ninth list position to second - even before she became the party's deputy leader.In 2006 she completed training with the New Zealand Army Territorials. She has continued this training, but the Defence Force has not called on her for deployment.
She recently announced that she planned to contest the electorate of
Wellington Central , a seat formerly held by former ACT leaderRichard Prebble from 1996 to 1999.Political views
Further reading
:*citation |first = Richard et al. |last = Prebble |title = Liberal thinking |place = Wellington, [N.Z.] |publisher = ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Office |year = 2003 (Roy contributed a paper entitled "Health for all".)
:*citation |first = Heather |last = Roy |title = Report by the New Zealand Delegate to the 15th Commonwealth Parliamentary Seminar Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 16-23 August 2003 [Commonwealth Parliamentary Seminar (15th: 2003: Rarotonga)] |place = Wellington, [N.Z.] |publisher = House of Representatives |year = 2003
External links
* [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/d/c/8/48MP77911-Roy-Heather.htm Parliamentary biography]
* [http://www.roy.org.nz Campaign Website]
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