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“The Enemy Within: the Human Cost of State Surveillance...

Keith's sister Maire Leadbeater is launching her book The Enemy Within: the Human Cost of State Surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2024, following Keith's death in June....

New Zealand getting too close to NATO

By Keith Locke The following article was published on Newsroom on 23 June 2022 Keith Locke explains why the Prime Minister’s decision to attend the Nato Leaders meeting might make David...

NZ shouldn’t Big Brother the Solomons over relations with...

This article was published in the Daily Blog on 1 April 2022 Every now and again there’s a scare story about China trying to establish a military base in 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...

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...

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,...

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...

What’s missing from the report into the Christchurch terrorist...

This article was published by Spinoff on 22 December 2020 By Keith Locke The weakness of the royal commission report is that it treats Islamist extremist terrorism and extreme right white...

Five Eyes not the right vehicle to challenge China...

The following article was published on the Daily Blog on 25 November 2020. By Keith Locke It’s good to see New  Zealand criticising China for undermining democracy in Hong Kong, but...