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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,...

NZ Should Not Buy into Trump’s tech war with...

The article below appeared on the Daily Blog on 2 September 2020 Most New Zealanders don’t trust Donald Trump. By and large they oppose his “America First” stance, which...

Covid 19 coronavirus response a chance to reshape our...

The Covid-19 crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas, not least on foreign policy.In the 1980s we were excluded from the Anzus alliance for daring...

NZ shouldn’t be caught up in the US game...

By Keith Locke Why are we still looking to America first when it comes to our decisions on which countries to engage with, asks former MP Keith Locke. Britain’s decision to...