Yearly Archives: 2010

Protect the Police by cracking down on gun registration

The Government should resist pressure from the Police Association to arm frontline police officers, Green Party Police spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Reform of ‘claim of right’ law a waste of...

An inordinate amount of Government time and energy is being misspent on reforming the ‘claim of right’ law after its use in the trial of the Waihopai Three, Green Party Human Rights spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Refugees won’t be booking cruise liners to NZ

John Key made millions by trading currencies, but he doesn’t seem to have a good grasp of business principles when it comes to the economics of boat people coming to New Zealand.

OAG’s report on defence fraud

The Auditor-General has come out with a very disturbing report on the NZ Defence Forces defrauding the United Nations over accommodation payments for NZDF seconded Read More

Keith Locke, Governor General Bill first reading

The Greens will support the Governor-General Bill. As other speakers have said, it represents a step forward, a modernisation beyond the practices of the colonial era.

Fairness at Work

The National Party announced at its Annual Conference what Russel Norman described as “setting employment relations in New Zealand back two decades”.  If passed the changes will take away workers' rights, remove protections, cut pay, reduce holidays and diminish access to sick leave.  The NZ Council of Trade Unions is leading a fightback against these proposals, and has the full support of the Green Party.  There will be lots to do - submissions to write, rallies and marches to attend, and industrial action to support – if we are to defeat these attacks on workers’ rights 

Law change can protect Kiwis from private spies

Changes to a law already before Parliament could protect New Zealanders from spying by private companies, the Green Party said today.

Keith Locke to the Minister of Agriculture about the...

KEITH LOCKE to the Minister of Agriculture: Will he ask the Pork Industry Board if they were aware that Thomson and Clark Investigations were collecting information for them on animal rights campaigner Rochelle Rees by means of a tracking device planted under her car; if not, why not?