KEITH LOCKE (Green): It is somewhat disappointing, after my colleague Sue Bradford put this bill in, and after it got though the first reading and went on to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee, that the bill has been rather gutted at that committee. It is very much a fifty-fifty sort of bill, a half-hearted bill, in the way it has come back from the select committee.
Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke is disappointed that Foreign Minister Winston Peters did not call for the release of democracy leader Aung San Sun Kyi following his dialogue yesterday with Burmese foreign minister U Nyan Win.
Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke has criticised the Immigration Bill that gives immigration officials the power to subject New Zealanders to random biometric identity checks, and to use secret information in immigration proceedings.
Green MP Keith Locke today expressed concern about the deteriorating health of Iranian hunger striker, Ali Panah, after visiting him in Auckland hospital.
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke has been shocked to hear that Iranian hunger striker Ali Panah has been handcuffed to a guard while lying in Auckland hospital.
The revelations that Air New Zealand has been flying Australian combat troops across the Pacific and up to the Iraqi border is an appalling piece of misjudgement by the airline, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
The Green Party, of course, appreciates that the Government has put a lot of effort into rewriting New Zealand's immigration policy — and a lot of the rewriting is overdue in terms of updat