Winston Peters’ scaremongering about immigration won’t work this time around, Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
“It’s silly to talk about cutting immigration when net migration is at a very low level, only 4900 migrants in the August 2008 year - down from 8,700 from 2007 - and employers are still screaming out for skilled workers,” Mr Locke says.
New Zealanders will be disturbed to learn that China has been conducting a massive spying operation on the online phone service Skype, and that one of the trigger phrases is ‘milk powder’, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that the new Search and Seizure Powers Bill will further intrude on New Zealanders’ privacy.
"Much of a person’s life is increasingly on their computer these days, so it is worrying that the bill provides more general powers to search computers, even by remote access or hacking," Mr Locke says.
New Zealand should be much bolder in promoting peace, human rights, social justice and sustainability on the world stage, say the Greens.
This is a key thrust of the Green Party’s foreign policy, released tonight by Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke at a meeting of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Institute for International Affairs.
Green Party MP Keith Locke has warned the Labour Government against any ban on gangs.
Corrections Minister Phil Goff has been reported today as being prepared to support a ban similar to that being applied in South Australia, if it ‘proves effective’.
Green Party MP Keith Locke is disappointed that Auckland City’s transport committee today voted against a walkway and cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. "It is a victory for narrow, conservative thinking," Mr Locke, the Party’s Spokesperson on Auckland Transport Issues, says.
Auckland Green Party MP Keith Locke is urging Auckland City councillors to endorse a walkway and cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Options prepared by consultants go before Auckland City Council’s transport committee tomorrow.
Green Party MP Keith Locke says Police Commissioner Howard Broad’s day long consultation with MPs before deciding to introduce Tasers is a travesty. "My high hopes that Mr Broad was serious about hearing MPs have been dashed by this sudden decision," Mr Locke says.
Green Party MP Keith Locke has expressed astonishment that Transit New Zealand has admitted the Waterview motorway project has no clear benefit, and that the agency has not considered the future price of oil in its project analysis.