Yearly Archives: 2010

GCSB gets lucky in Budget 2010

The Government Communications Security Bureau's been lucky this year, with its Budget up 19% from $59.142 million to $70.44 million.

Prejudice against Pasifika players offside

The New Zealand Herald was right to call “offensive” Andy Haden’s suggestion that the Crusaders rugby team has done better by having fewer Polynesians in Read More

McCully weak on Gaza flotilla assault

Foreign Minister Murray McCully needs to do more than offer a diplomatically weak statement on Israel’s deadly attack on a peace flotilla, Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Bring the SAS home

When John Key was in Afghanistan he flew a kite about extending the SAS mission there beyond the middle of next year. He’d be wise Read More

Will the Government call for the immediate lifting of...

Keith Locke's question to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Wellington looks to Washington over Gaza Line

Watching Hillary Clinton on the box talking about Gaza I had an eerie feeling. Hadn’t I heard the same words from Murray McCully. They seemed Read More

1981 revisited

As a 1981 anti-tour protester I welcome next year’s visit by some of the 1981 Springbok squad. Captain Wynand Claassen is in make-amends mode. He Read More

Intelligence services and the Budget

The most inadequate parts of the Budget Estimates of Appropriations are the sections on the intelligence services, the Security Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Security Bureau.

The Not-so-Cosmopolitan Club

South Auckland is the cultural melting pot of New Zealand. People from more than 100 nationalities, and all faiths, live side by side. Many are recent migrants.