Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke has criticised international mall company Westfield for preventing voter enrolment officers from setting up stalls in their shopping complexes.
Green MP Keith Locke will travel to Tonga tonight to lend support to the movement for democratic reform there, which is currently focused around a month-long civil servants' strike.
Keith is in Tonga over the next couple of days, as pro-democracy strikes escalate. frog spoke to him about why he's there, what he's doing, and what's happening. The interview is here (mp3, 8.45 mins, 1.0MB).
New checking mechanisms are needed to prevent New Zealand companies from exporting technology that ends up being used by military forces in unjust wars, Green Defence and Disarmament Spokesperson Keith Locke says.