Yearly Archives: 2021

Keith Locke being invested as a Member of the...

I'm belatedly adding to my website a photo of me being invested as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit "for services to human rights advocacy" by...

New Zealand should never have joined the war in...

This article was first published in the Spinoff on 18 August 2021. I argued 20 years ago that sending troops would only help the Taliban. And so it has proved,...

The urgent need for New Zealand aid to Afghanistan

By Keith Locke The following article was published in the Daily Blog on 4 September 2021 Our government has understandably been preoccupied with helping refugees leave Afghanistan. But now the...

Many anti-nuclear reasons to oppose AUKUS

The following article was first published in the Daily Blog on 20 September 2021 There are multiple reasons for nuclear-free New Zealanders to be upset about Australia’s plan to acquire...