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2010

Palmer Panel soft on Israel’s flotilla raid

It was seen as a feather in New Zealand’s cap when former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer was appointed to head the UN Secretary-General’s Panel Read More

Keith Locke on the Policing (Storage of Youth Identifying...

KEITH LOCKE (Green): The Green Party disagrees very strongly with the previous speakers on th

Keith Locke on the Tamil asylum seekers – general...

refugees starting a new life in New Zealand are highly motivated to achieve and to have their kids achieve

NZ should welcome refugees from Sri Lanka

Prime Minister John Key’s reaction to the boatload of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka lacks compassion, Green Party immigration spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Legislation allows for more snooping

The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) Amendment Bill contains insufficient mechanisms to control the misuse of the extensive surveillance powers it bestows on the SIS, Green Party security services spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

Challenging global military spending

  The Global Day of Action Against Military Spending is being marked today, April 12th. Last year the world military budget was US$1,630 billion, with Read More

China comes down hard on high profile dissident

While the world’s attention has been focussed on the efforts of the pro-democracy movement in the Middle-East, China has been cracking down hard on dissidents.

Join the campaign for fairness at work

Now that the frivolity of the morning is over, I want to take the opportunity to remind Frogblog readers that today the Government’s new industrial Read More

New approach to minimum wage needed

The procedure for increasing the minimum wage is all wrong. Those on it never know when it might be increased or by how much. It is at the whim of the government of the day. And the National government is quite scrooge-like.

Keith Locke’s written questions on the Nobel Peace Prize...

Keith Locke to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: