Tag: Security and Intelligence

The Greens will be opposing this bill. The debate has been interesting, and I appreciate the caution of some of the speakers, like Peter Dunne, about the civil liberties implications of this bill.

Green MP Keith Locke is demanding the government comes clean on SAS activities in Afghanistan, following revelations in today's Sunday Star Times.

We send you our full support for the protest against the presence of the Waihopai spy station in New Zealand, January 24 to 26

Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says there is a creeping erosion of our civil liberties under the Counter-Terrorism Bill, introduced into Parliament today.

Green MP Keith Locke says that government plans to import smallpox vaccine is an "over-reaction", which will only fuel anti-terrorist hysteria.

The Government is buying its way deeper into a military relationship with Washington by allowing the US Air Force to establish a high frequency radio transmitter in New Zealand, Green Party Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

The Green Party opposes the re-establishment of the Intelligence and Security Committee and its proposed composition. The committee is not a select committee; it is a statutory committee.

Green MP Keith Locke is echoing the call from the country's top academics for the Government to open up the archives on the SIS.

Cancelling the Lord of the Rings night-time festival in Wellington is an hysterical over-reaction to the threat of terrorism, Green MP Keith Locke said today.