I want to address whether this Budget will give New Zealanders a greater sense of security. In one sense it will. Significant financial assistance is to go to poorer people to make them feel more secure, and that is good.
The Green Party is supporting this bill, which deals with practical matters of how visiting forces to our country, or our forces going to other countries, conduct their affairs, and have a degree of a
The Green Party will support this bill but like previous speakers, including Stephen Franks who has just spoken, we are concerned that the principle of privacy in the deliberations of the Police Compl
The Green Party, of course, will be supporting this bill and was very involved in its formulation, working closely and successfully with the Government on bringing it to its present state and to this
The Green Party will be opposing the third reading of the Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Bill.
We have said all along that the capacity to intercept emails will catch a few more crimi
The Green Party will be opposing this bill, as it has previously.
We do not see the need to grant these powers to the police and the intelligence agencies at this time.
The Green Party will support this bill, although it has serious concerns about how the legislation might be applied in practice in an exaggerated way, compared with the needs of the actual security si