Tag: Global Affairs

Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) head Warren Tucker's entry into the public debate over his agency is welcome, but his opinion piece raises more questions than it answers, says Green MP Keith Locke.

Some of the 43 West Papuan boat people imprisoned in an Australian detention camp after a perilous sea journey to escape persecution in their homeland should be offered the chance of new homes in New Zealand, the Green Party says.

There has been a wall of silence around the operations of the satellite communications interception station at Waihopai, near Blenheim, since it was built in 1988. This secrecy must end. Our inq

New Zealand should immediately suspend the transfer of data intercepted by the Waihopai spy base to the US National Security Agency following revelations it could be being used for illegal purposes.

The Green Party will be supporting this bill. We want to remove any corruption that takes place in terms of people who make a business of assisting migrants.

Proposed amendments to terrorism legislation would undermine New Zealanders' rights to challenge terrorist designations, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says

Below is the letter that Keith Locke has sent today to the captors of Harmeet Sooden, via Al Jazeera.

Green Party Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke welcomes the return today from Afghanistan of New Zealand's SAS contingent, but hopes it will be the last such deployment.

New Zealand should rebuff British overtures to send a new counter-insurgency combat force to Afghanistan, Green Party Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke says.