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Keith at PPTA rally September 2010

Keith at PPTA rally September 2010

PPTA rally, September 2010

PPTA rally, September 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.

Speech to the Close Waihopai rally in Blenheim on...

Speech to the Close Waihopai rally in Blenheim on 23 January 2010 Keith Locke MP 23rd January, 2010 

A democratic giant of Tonga – a tribute

Akilisi Pohiva died on September 12, 2019. This tribute was originally published in The Spinoff. Tongan prime minister ’Akilisi Pohiva will be mainly remembered as the country’s leading democrat. For four decades...

Keith’s Full Story

Keith's storyThe life path Keith Locke ended up taking was largely mapped out at birth. He was born into a family in which it was natural to be politically...

What an Independent New Zealand Foreign Policy would look...

Most New Zealanders want us to have an independent foreign policy. They think we are already independent to some degree. If pressed they would cite our nuclear-free status, or...

Keating and English’s colonial response to the SAS raid

Defence Chief Tim Keating and the Prime Minister exhibit the “colonial” reflex in completely ignoring the villagers as a source of information. Bill English looked at a few American videos of the battle and considered that to be enough to reject any inquiry. Keating didn’t consider evidence from the locals as relevant enough to mention.

UN report recommends “hybrid” court to try Sri Lankan...

An investigation by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recommended a “hybrid special court” of international and local judges to bring to justice those guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka.

Where next after “Bill of Rights” ruling that prisoners...

The extra attention our Courts are now giving to Bill of Rights matters can help slow the erosion of our civil liberties which occurs when MPs play excessive attention to the “law and order” lobby.