MORE ACCOUNTABLE SPY AGENCIES (1) Ensure that the GCSB is not authorised to spy on New Zealand citizens and permanent residents (2) Implement a comprehensive, high-level, independent inquiry into the role, functions, powers, internal compliance procedures and effectiveness of external oversight mechanisms of all NZ intelligence agencies, in particular the GCSB and NZSIS
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Watch the HRF-hosted meeting with Nicky Hager and Sir Edmund Thomas on here
When is “borrowing” someone else’s property okay in the Prime Minister’s eyes? When, it seems, it’s carried out by a senior adviser in his office working in concert with National Party staff and activists. Since Nicky Hager’s Dirty Politics bombshell blew National’s election campaign off course last week, John Key has been trying to brush aside the
GCSB must tell us how it interprets the rules intended to control its spying on New Zealanders. We have been assured repeatedly by the Prime Minister that the Government Communications Security Bureau cannot spy on New Zealanders without a warrant. But what if our much greater knowledge of mass global surveillance gained from Edward Snowden’s
Navi Pillay, the outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights, on International Women’s Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3fmEIoz7I&list=PLYUVFvBU-lodtsx08zmgK6jHPMVrtx6lT
Congratulations, Tony Abbott. You certainly got what you wished for on Manus Island: misery. Misery that forces desperate people to choose between the hell they left and the hell they are in now. Misery that has generated international headlines your Administration sees as helpful in dissuading future asylum boat arrivals. Manufactured misery that has created
