Security and Intelligence

Military aircraft cost blowout unacceptable: Greens

Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned at the lack of accountability by the Ministry of Defence and Defence Force regarding cost blowouts of almost $400 million on key defence projects, identified in an Auditor General's report released today.

If you go down to the woods today...

The Greens today revealed that a security firm, run by the same private investigators involved in hiring paid informants to infiltrate community groups, has applied to patrol public conservation land

New transit visa requirements bureaucracy gone mad

Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the new requirements for people passing through New Zealand airports to get a transit visa.

Big brother creeps closer

Green MP Keith Locke is warning of the dangers of the New Zealand police buying into the FBI-led 'Server in the Sky' network to share biometric and other information.

Crown Law Office should act on terrorism raid reporting

Green Party MP Keith Locke has called on the Crown Law Office to take action against the Dominion-Post over its decision to publish excerpts from police affidavits on the 'terrorism' raids.

Locke wants Police to find, plug 'terrorism' leaks

Green Party MP Keith Locke has called on Police Commissioner Howard Broad to find and plug the leaks of evidence gathered to support the failed 'terrorism' charges, before leaks further jeopardize the chance of fair trials on alleged arms o

Locke calls for current Terrorism Bill to be halted, reviewed

Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke is calling for the Government to withdraw the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament, in the light of the forthcoming Law Commission review of the 2002 Terrorism Suppression

PM's remarks potentially prejudicial, Locke says

Helen Clark's statement that those arrested in the terrorism raids had 'at the very least illicitly used firearms, constructed molotov cocktails and trained themselves in how to use napalm' may be prejudicial, Greens' MP Keith Locke says.