Editing Ruth Dyson

{{short description|New Zealand Labour Party politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix  = [[The Honourable]]
| name              = Ruth Dyson
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| image             = Ruth Dyson, 2011.jpg
| alt               = portrait photo of a woman
| caption           = Ruth Dyson in 2011
| office            = [[House of Representatives (New Zealand)|Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives]]
| term_start        = 3 July 2019
| term_end          = 17 October 2020
| predecessor       = [[Poto Williams]]
| successor         = [[Jenny Salesa]]
| office1           = [[House of Representatives (New Zealand)|Chief Government Whip in the House of Representatives]]
| term_start1       = 26 October 2017
| term_end1         = 27 June 2019
| primeminister1    = [[Jacinda Ardern]]
| predecessor1      = [[Jami-Lee Ross]]
| successor1        = [[Michael Wood (New Zealand politician)|Michael Wood]] 
| order2            = 24th [[Minister for Social Development (New Zealand)|Minister for Social Development]]
| term_start2       = 31 October 2007
| term_end2         = 19 November 2008
| primeminister2    = [[Helen Clark]]
| predecessor2      = [[Steve Maharey]]
| successor2        = [[Paula Bennett]]
| order3            = 8th [[Minister for Seniors|Minister for Senior Citizens]]
| term_start3       = 28 January 2003
| term_end3         = 19 November 2008
| primeminister3    = [[Helen Clark]]
| predecessor3      = [[Lianne Dalziel]]
| successor3        = [[John Carter (New Zealand politician)|John Carter]]
| order4            = 7th [[Accident Compensation Corporation#List of ministers|Minister for ACC]]
| primeminister4    = [[Helen Clark]]
| term_start4       = 15 August 2002
| term_end4         = 5 November 2007
| predecessor4      = [[Lianne Dalziel]]
| successor4        = [[Maryan Street]]
| office5            = Member of the [[New Zealand Parliament]]<br />for {{NZ electorate link|Port Hills}}<br />{{small| {{NZ electorate link|Banks Peninsula}} (1999–2008)}}
| term_start5        = 27 November 1999
| term_end5          = 17 October 2020
| predecessor5       = [[David Carter (politician)|David Carter]]
| successor5         = [[Tracey McLellan]]
| constituency_MP6  = [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour]] [[party list]]
| parliament6       = New Zealand
| term_start6       = 12 October 1996
| term_end6         = 27 November 1999
| constituency_MP7  = [[Lyttelton (New Zealand electorate)|Lyttelton]]
| parliament7       = New Zealand
| term_start7       = 6 November 1993
| term_end7         = 12 October 1996
| predecessor7      = [[Gail McIntosh]]
| successor7        = Constituency abolished
| order8            = 28th [[President of the New Zealand Labour Party|President of the Labour Party]]
| vicepresident8    = Fred Anderson (1988–90)<br>[[Maryan Street]] (1990–93)
| predecessor8      = [[Rex Jones]]
| successor8        = [[Maryan Street]]
| term_start8       = 4 September 1988
| term_end8         = 18 April 1993
| birth_name        = Ruth Suzanne Dyson
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1957|08|11|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Wellington]], New Zealand
| death_date        =
| death_place       = 
| nationality       = New Zealand
| party             = [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]]
| occupation        = Politician
}}
'''Ruth Suzanne Dyson''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSO|size=85%}} (born 11 August 1957) is a former New Zealand politician. She was a [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2020. She represented the {{NZ electorate link|Port Hills}} electorate from the {{NZ election link|2008}} election to 2020. She also held a number of senior offices in the Labour Party, including president.

==Early life and career==
Dyson was born in [[Lower Hutt]] in 1957. Her father served in the [[New Zealand Army]], and so Dyson's family frequently moved around the country. Dyson joined the [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] in [[Westport, New Zealand|Westport]] in 1979, and worked as a campaign organiser for [[West Coast (New Zealand electorate)|West Coast]] Labour MP [[Kerry Burke]] in the [[1981 New Zealand general election|1981]] and [[1984 New Zealand general election|1984]] election campaigns. In 1985, she moved to [[Wellington]], where she worked with Labour MP [[Fran Wilde]] on the [[Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986|Homosexual Law Reform Bill]] before taking up a position as an advisor to Burke in the office of the [[Minister of Employment (New Zealand)|Minister of Employment]] in 1986. She worked as an organiser for Wilde's re-election campaign in [[Wellington Central (New Zealand electorate)|Wellington Central]] for the [[1987 New Zealand general election|1987 election]]. Dyson was then employed as an executive officer at Wellington Regional Employment and ACCESS Control.<ref name=who>{{cite book |title=Who's Who in the New Zealand Parliament 1996 |location=Wellington |publisher=[[New Zealand House of Representatives|Parliamentary Service]] |date=1996 |page=43}}</ref>

She held several senior positions in the Labour Party hierarchy. In 1984 she was elected the women's representative on Labour's New Zealand Council before becoming a member of the party executive in 1986. She was the elected vice president of the party at the 1987 Labour conference.<ref name=who/> At the 1988 conference in Dunedin Dyson won a highly contested campaign to win the party president from former president and maverick MP [[Jim Anderton]] by 99 votes (575 to 473).<ref>{{Cite news |author=Hewlett, Paul |title=Government sweeps clean at conference |date=4 September 1988 |work=[[Auckland Star]] |page=A3 }}</ref> After the defeat of the controversial [[Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand|Fourth Labour Government]] Dyson was self-employed as a training and employment consultant from 1990 to 1993.<ref name=who/>

In the lead up to the {{NZ election link|1993}} Dyson stood for the Labour nomination in the Christchurch seat of [[Lyttelton (New Zealand electorate)|Lyttelton]]. She beat 5 other local aspirants for the nomination and pledged to move from Wellington into the electorate before the election.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Espiner, Colin |title=Labour chooses Dyson for seat |date=25 July 1992 |work=[[The Press]] |page=1 }}</ref>

==Member of Parliament==
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Dyson first entered Parliament in the {{NZ election link|1993}}, winning the {{NZ electorate link|Lyttelton}} electorate against [[New Zealand National Party|National]]'s [[David Carter (politician)|David Carter]].<ref>{{cite tech report |title=Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place |publisher=[[Chief Electoral Office (New Zealand)|Chief Electoral Office]] |year=1993}}</ref> In the {{NZ election link|1996}}, the Lyttelton electorate was abolished, and Dyson stood in {{NZ electorate link|Banks Peninsula}}, losing to Carter, who had in the meantime become an MP through winning the [[1994 Selwyn by-election]]. She became a [[party-list proportional representation|list MP]] owing to her position on the Labour Party's list. After the 1996 election Dyson was appointed Labour's spokesperson for [[Accident Compensation Corporation|ACC]] and Disability Services by leader [[Helen Clark]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=Boyd, Sarah |title='Govt in waiting' announced |date=20 December 1996 |work=[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |page=2 }}</ref> In the {{NZ election link|1999}} she in turn defeated Carter to win Banks Peninsula. She has remained the MP for the area (later renamed [[Port Hills (New Zealand electorate)|Port Hills]]) since that time, holding the seat until her retirement in 2020.

Dyson was a senior member of the Labour Party during the [[Helen Clark]]-led [[Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand|Fifth Labour Government]], serving in a range of health and employment-related portfolios including Minister for Disability Issues (1999–2000; 2001–2008), Minister for [[Accident Compensation Corporation|ACC]] (2002–2007), [[Minister of Labour (New Zealand)|Minister of Labour]] (2005–2007) and [[Minister for Social Development (New Zealand)|Minister for Social Development and Employment]] (2007–2008).

=== Fifth Labour Government, 1999–2008 ===
When the [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] won power in the [[1999 New Zealand general election|1999 general election]], Dyson was appointed to a number of minor ministerial roles, including Disability Issues and Associate Health and Associate Social Development. However, she resigned them on 31 October 2000 after being caught [[Driving under the influence|drink driving]].<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=157822 |title=$9.50 cab ride would have saved Dyson |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |first=Vernon |last=Small |date=1 November 2000 |access-date=5 September 2009}}</ref> She regained most of her ministerial responsibilities on 4 June 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_politics_story_skin/42646 |title=Dyson gets all her portfolios back |work=[[Television New Zealand]] |date=5 June 2001 |access-date=28 April 2009}}</ref> She acknowledged after her resignation that she had been convicted and fined for possession of cannabis when she was a teenager stating "I find it sickening that some 25 years later someone has anonymously passed this information to journalists."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dyson sickened by record leak – New Zealand News |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dyson-sickened-by-record-leak/EW5EKMMRONSKDPXIQUMZXSVZ3Q/ |access-date=29 April 2022 |website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

As Minister for Disability Issues, she led the development of what would become the New Zealand Sign Language Act 2006, which gave [[New Zealand Sign Language]] the status of an [[official language]] of New Zealand. In her valedictory statement in 2020, Dyson reflected on the Act: "I regret that it wasn't more prescriptive in its implementation, because its roll-out has been slower than it could have been. That should be fixed."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Valedictory Statements—Dyson, Ruth|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20200804_052560000/dyson-ruth|website=New Zealand Parliament}}</ref>

In a reshuffle on 31 October 2007, Dyson was promoted to [[Minister for Social Development (New Zealand)|Minister for Social Development]], which she held until the Clark government lost power at the 2008 general election. Despite the swing against Labour at that election, Dyson won the new Port Hills electorate with an increased margin.<ref>[http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-40.html Port Hills results 2008]</ref><ref>[http://www.decision08.co.nz/Electorates/ElectoratesDisplay/tabid/65/cat/104/Default.aspx Decision 08: Port Hills]</ref>

=== Opposition, 2008–2017 ===
The National Party won the 2008 election, putting Labour in Opposition where it would remain for the next nine years. During this time Dyson held a range of portfolios, including health (2008–2011), internal affairs (2011–2013), conservation and disability issues (2013–2015), Canterbury Earthquake Recovery (2013–2014) and senior citizens (2013–2017).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dyson, Ruth – New Zealand Parliament|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/former-members-of-parliament/dyson-ruth/|access-date=21 December 2020|website=parliament.nz|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Cairns|first=Lois|date=11 July 2013|title=Two MPs to take over Dalziel's portfolio|work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]]|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8907042/Two-MPs-to-take-over-Dalziels-portfolio|access-date=23 August 2013}}</ref> She was also deputy chair of the Health select committee (2008–2011) and chair of the Government Administration select committee (2011–2017).

In December 2009 Dyson's Resource Management (Requiring Authorities) Amendment Bill, which would amend the [[Resource Management Act 1991]] to reintroduce a public interest test for projects seeking requiring authority, was drawn from the member's ballot.<ref name="rmabill">{{cite web |url= http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Legislation/Bills/f/4/7/00DBHOH_BILL9739_1-Resource-Management-Requiring-Authorities-Amendment.htm |title=Resource Management (Requiring Authorities) Amendment Bill |publisher=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=19 December 2009}}</ref> The bill was defeated at its first reading.<ref name="rmabill" />

Dyson was criticised in December 2015 for describing National's Speaker David Carter as "incompetent, biased... lazy [and] sexist" on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Labour MP under fire for 'incompetent, lazy, sexist' Twitter comments|url=https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/labour-mp-under-fire-for-incompetent-lazy-sexist-twitter-comments|access-date=22 December 2020|website=1 NEWS|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Trauma, humiliation, pain and relief: Former ministers and MPs bow out of politics|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/trauma-humiliation-pain-and-relief-former-ministers-and-mps-bow-out-of-politics/AQWWHFSTF2JMFQJ47WBCDOYWTA/|access-date=22 December 2020|website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=29 July 2020 |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

=== Sixth Labour Government 2017–2020 and retirement ===
Dyson had been positioned to be [[Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives|Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives]] (to [[Trevor Mallard]]) if Labour won the 2017 general election.<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 June 2017|title=The Veteran: Ruth Dyson stands again for the Left|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/93912758/the-veteran-ruth-dyson-stands-again-for-the-left|access-date=22 December 2020|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en}}</ref> While Labour was able to form a Government (in coalition with [[New Zealand First]]), the National Party's [[Anne Tolley]] was appointed as Deputy Speaker instead. Dyson was put in the role of Labour's [[Senior Whip of the Labour Party|Senior Whip]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Bracewell-Worrall|first=Anna|date=30 October 2017|title=Ruth Dyson selected as Government whip|work=[[Newshub]] |url=http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/10/ruth-dyson-selected-as-government-whip.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030123942/http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/10/ruth-dyson-selected-as-government-whip.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 October 2017|access-date=30 October 2017}}</ref> However, when the Assistant Speaker [[Poto Williams]] was appointed as a Minister outside Cabinet in July 2019, Dyson was named as her replacement.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Refreshed Cabinet line-up confirmed|url=http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/refreshed-cabinet-line-confirmed|access-date=22 December 2020|website=The Beehive|language=en}}</ref>

Dyson was also chair of the Abortion Legislation Committee (a special select committee that examined the [[Abortion Legislation Act 2020|Abortion Legislation Bill]]) and a member of the [[Epidemic Response Committee]] (which considered the government's response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand|COVID-19 pandemic]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Epidemic response|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/epidemic-response/tab/mp|access-date=23 April 2020|publisher=New Zealand Parliament}}</ref>

In March 2019, Dyson indicated that she would not seek re-election at the [[2020 New Zealand general election|2020 general election]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110996324/port-hills-mp-ruth-dyson-to-stand-down-at-next-election | work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |title=Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson to stand down at next election |date=4 March 2019 | access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref> While the Port Hills electorate was disestablished for that election, Labour's candidate for the replacement electorate of [[Banks Peninsula (New Zealand electorate)|Banks Peninsula]] was [[Tracey McLellan]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=24 November 2019|title=Labour selects Tracey McLellan as 2020 Port Hills candidate|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117666081/labour-selects-tracey-mclellan-as-2020-port-hills-candidate|access-date=22 December 2020|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en}}</ref>

In the [[2021 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|2021 Queen's Birthday Honours]], Dyson was appointed a [[Companion of the Queen's Service Order]], for services as a member of Parliament and to people with disabilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2021 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2021 |date=7 June 2021 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>

In March 2023, Dyson was accused of not being politically impartial in her roles as deputy chair of the Earthquake Commission and Fire and Emergency New Zealand as is the expectation of public servants and government-appointed board members. She admitted to not having read the code of conduct governing her position as a Crown entity board member. She said "I'm prepared to review all my social media engagement and reflect on whether it meets the standard. I haven't done that yet," She had written on [[Twitter]] "Oh no. It sounds like some cruel junior staffer gave Mr [[Christopher Luxon|Luxon]] the wrong speech! #Waitangi2023,"<ref>{{Cite news |title=Former Labour MP Ruth Dyson to 'review' social media over concerns about political tweets while in Fire and Emergency role |language=en |work=[[Newshub]] |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/former-labour-mp-ruth-dyson-to-review-social-media-over-concerns-about-political-tweets-while-in-fire-and-emergency-role.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308042628/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/former-labour-mp-ruth-dyson-to-review-social-media-over-concerns-about-political-tweets-while-in-fire-and-emergency-role.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 March 2023 |access-date=8 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Concerns formally raised over former minister's social media posts |url=https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/08/calls-for-another-ex-minister-to-resign-over-political-comments/ |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=1 News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McConnell |first=Anna Whyte and Glenn |date=8 March 2023 |title=Steve Maharey breached impartiality rule but will keep jobs, as another chair faces scrutiny |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300824979/steve-maharey-breached-impartiality-rule-but-will-keep-jobs-as-another-chair-faces-scrutiny |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Third senior public servant in trouble over anti-National social media comments |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/fire-and-emergency-nzs-ruth-dyson-challenged-over-social-media-comments-about-national-party-opposition/556QY6E3Z5DEXCIJ6757ILNWYE/ |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=8 March 2023 |title=Former Labour MP Ruth Dyson caught up in political neutrality crackdown |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/485535/former-labour-mp-ruth-dyson-caught-up-in-political-neutrality-crackdown |access-date=8 March 2023 |website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref> Prime Minister [[Chris Hipkins]] said "I would certainly expect her to be reading it [Code of Conduct] ... my understanding is she has subsequently been in touch with the relevant minister's office to indicate she will read the code of conduct and she will follow it".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-08 |title=Steve Maharey will not lose jobs despite political comments - Hipkins |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/485538/steve-maharey-will-not-lose-jobs-despite-political-comments-hipkins |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref> 

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/5/8/5/50MP711-Dyson-Ruth.htm Parliamentary page]
* [http://www.labour.org.nz/mps/hon-ruth-dyson Labour Party biography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100604221901/http://porthillspulse.org.nz/ Port Hills Electorate website]

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