Tag: Global Affairs
Government’s ‘terror list’ includes dead man
The Green Party has accused the government of gross incompetence for today issuing a list of suspected terrorists which includes at least one high profile terrorist suspect who was killed last October.
Spy report tells us nothing, says Locke
The Green Party has attacked the Annual Report of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), tabled today, as completely vacuous and a total failure in public accountability.
Green MPs protest Star Wars link
The Green Party wants New Zealand to re-examine the use of the Harewood base at Christchurch airport for US supply flights to Pine Gap, in light of Australia buying into "Star Wars".
No relief from US terror demands
The Greens are asking Air New Zealand to drop the lid on the latest US demand that air passengers be prevented from queuing to go to the toilet.
Planes no place for a shootout, say Greens
The Green Party is warning Air New Zealand and the government against being panicked into putting armed air marshals on planes.
No holiday on Nauru
Green MP Keith Locke is asking the Labour government to stop dodging the hard moral question and to state publicly that it will accept some of the asylum-seekers interned on Nauru.
Nauru: the Guantanamo Bay of the Pacific
Green MP Keith Locke is demanding the Government makes some effort to intervene in the tragedy unfolding on Nauru.
Locke calls on NZ to break Nauru deadlock
Green MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to help break the impasse over hunger-striking Afghan asylum seekers on Nauru.