Green Party MP Keith Locke wants the Government to ensure the Black Caps tour of Zimbabwe doesn’t go ahead.
New Zealand Cricket is saying it won’t stop the tour on its own, and suffer penalties under International Cricket Council rules. The ICC, at its conference this week, decided that Zimbabwe Cricket would remain a part of the Future Tours Programme.
Reports that Colombian Green Party politician Ingrid Betancourt, along with three American citizens, has been rescued from FARC militia after six years in captivity have been greeted with enthusiasm by the New Zealand Green Party.
Ms Betancourt was the presidential candidate for the Colombian Green Party in 2002.
Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke wants the Police Commissioner to review the way his officers are using pepper spray.
“It is apparent to me that pepper spray was inappropriately used in three separate cases that have come to public attention over the past month,” Mr Locke says.
Green Party MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to back Britain in getting Zimbabwe cricket kicked out of the World Twenty20 next year.
“We’ve got to use every bit of leverage we have against the Mugabe regime,” said Mr Locke, the Green Party’s Sports Spokesperson.
“Following the English example would also mean cancelling the Black Caps planned tour of Zimbabwe next July.
Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned at the lack of accountability by the Ministry of Defence and Defence Force regarding cost blowouts of almost $400 million on key defence projects, identified in an Auditor General's report released today.
Green Party MP Keith Locke says the Canadian experience &endash; where police have frequently used tasers well beyond their mandate &endash; should make us wary about introducing tasers here.
The Green Party is disappointed that human rights issues seem to have played no part in New Zealand First's opposition to the China preferential trade agreement.