Yearly Archives: 2002

$13 million better spent on public transport than Eastern...

Auckland Green MP Keith Locke has criticised Auckland City's transport committee for wasting $13 million on designing an Eastern Highway.

US happy to reveal our ‘secret’ SAS activities

Details of the SAS incident in Afghanistan that our Government had deemed too sensitive for New Zealanders to be told about have now been revealed by the US military.

Greens ask for ‘terror-group’ evidence

Green MP Keith Locke has written to the Prime Minister, asking her to provide the information on which the designation of Jemaah Islamiyah as a terrorist organisation was based.

Bali no excuse for state terrorism

New Zealand should condemn the dawn raids on Australia's Muslim community, Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Rings premiere safe in Wellington

Cancelling the Lord of the Rings night-time festival in Wellington is an hysterical over-reaction to the threat of terrorism, Green MP Keith Locke said today.

The Climate Change Response Bill (Second Reading) and the...

The Green Party rises to support this bill. It is very important to establish the mechanisms in this bill to enable New Zealand to implement its commitments to the Kyoto Protocol.

Government defies ruling on asylum seekers

Green MP Keith Locke has produced figures that show the Government is ignoring a High Court ruling against large-scale detention of asylum seekers.

Greens endorse call to open old SIS files

Green MP Keith Locke is echoing the call from the country's top academics for the Government to open up the archives on the SIS.

Iraq is the real target

New Zealand's latest commitment to the "war against terror" effectively means it has joined the US build-up against Iraq, Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today.