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.
Published by Potton and Burton, the book outlines the history...
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 to declare New Zealand nuclear-free. Since then we have supposedly...
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 resist American pressure and let Huawei into its 5G network...
Presented as introductory comments at a workshop hosted by the Anti-Bases Campaign in Blenheim, 28 Jan 2017, and updated to reflect changes made to intelligence legislation in the Intelligence and Security Act 2017.
By Keith Locke
Were the SIS and GSB...
Main Point
The NZ Intelligence and Security Bill unnecessarily allows for greater surveillance of New Zealanders by our intelligence services and intrudes further on our privacy. The definition of national security is so broad that it could enable even more...
The intelligence services report by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy sheds more light on the GCSB's work with the Five Eyes network, but it also leaves several questions unanswered. Since the Snowden revelations there has been a...
Submitted by Keith Locke on 13 August 2015 to the official review being conducted by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy
In this submission I will address the following Term of Reference in the Review.
Point 1. The legislative frameworks...
My opinion piece (below) was published in the 5 December 2013 issue of the New Zealand Herald.
Read this article on the NZ Herald website
In his Dialogue page piece this week, Paul Buchanan calls on our Government "to prepare...
Today (31 August) the New Zealand Herald published my opinion piece critical of the GCSB, under the heading "Separate Spy Agency Not Needed" with a subhead: "Instead of spending $60m a year on a GCSB the cyber-security side could...