Keith Locke MP
Keith Locke has been a Green Party MP since 1999.
Keith was born into a politically active family and has been an activist and campaigner since the first anti-nuclear marches and anti-apartheid protests in 1960s New Zealand.
Keith has brought his long term specialist knowledge of human rights, both domestic and international, to his work as a Green MP.
He has been described as 'the bravest man in Parliament' and 'respected across party lines for his consistency and willingness to speak against the tide of popular opinion'.
Green Party Spokesperson on: Foreign Affairs, Industrial Relations, Defence, Immigration, Police, Human Rights, Pacific Island Affairs, Ethnic Affairs, Transport (Auckland).
Alongside his other work, Keith is presently working to get his private member's bill, the Head of State Referenda Bill, to pass its first reading in early 2010. For more information on this bill, please visit this page.
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Keith Locke has been a Green Party MP since 1999
Speech to the Close Waihopai rally in Blenheim on 23 January 2010
Speech to the Close Waihopai rally in Blenheim on 23 January 2010
Keith Locke MP
23rd January, 2010
Locke welcomes Tamil asylum seeker decision
Green MP Keith Locke has warmly welcomed the Government decision to accept 13 Tamil asylum seekers picked up by the Australian customs boat, Oceanic Viking.
NZ reverts to working longer and dumber
Proposed changes to four weeks annual leave will see New Zealanders' family life suffer for little or no productivity gains, Green Party Industrial Relations spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
Happy 10th Birthday
This week we celebrate our 10th birthday; 10 years of the Green Party in Parliament. Technically it might be an anniversary, but birthday sounds more fun. Green MPs Keith Locke, Sue Kedgley and co-leaders Russel Norman and Metiria Turei tell us about an extraordinary start in 1999, their personal highlights over the last decade plus their sense of what might happen in the next 10 years.
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McCully must stop dodging over Balibo 5
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully must press Indonesia to accept responsibility for the execution of New Zealand journalist Gary Cunningham in 1975, Green Party MP Keith Locke said today.
Green MPs back low paid workers
Green MPs today joined union actions across the country against the wage freeze in the public sector.
CHOGM must address human rights - Greens
New Zealand must use the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting to put pressure on Sri Lanka over its shameful human rights record, the Green Party’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
The future of civil liberties in New Zealand: Speech at the AGM of the NZ Council for Civil Liberties
Keith discusses the erosion of civil liberties in recent legislation.
