NZ Herald | 30 May 2015 Security Intelligence Service chief Rebecca Kitteridge has apologised to Kim Dotcom for the behaviour of her spies, who swapped emails about the internet entrepreneur’s weight and wife while mocking his chances of getting New Zealand residency. An extraordinary cache of emails has emerged from an Official Information Act request…
NZ Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice | 29 May 2015 When fluoride was added to the water supplies of two Taranaki towns not everyone was happy. The District Council had relied on powers in the Local Government Act 2002 and the Public Health Act 1956. But the plaintiff – an advocacy group –…
Converge | May 19, 2015 Poor John Key. It must be hard for a Prime Minister to keep up a far-fetched façade for as long as John Key has in denying GCSB (Government Communications Security Bureau) involvement in mass surveillance of New Zealanders. Confusing and confounding the public with smelly red herrings is a normal part…
NewZealandHerald / DominionPost | May 21 2015 Herald story triggers look at agency’s role in minister’s bid for top world trade job + Is it a whitewash from the outset? A new inquiry into NZ’s electronic surveillance service is being started as the country’s intelligence watchdog tries to find out if it makes good decisions about…
NZ Herald | 18 May 2015 A reality television show similar to Border Patrol would show Kiwis they have nothing to fear from the country’s domestic intelligence agency, its director says. Rebecca Kitteridge, director of the Security Intelligence Service, made her comments during an address to a privacy and identity conference in Wellington. Such a…
NZ Herald | 6 May 2015 Foreign Minister Murray McCully is facing more criticism after his office sent instructions telling MPs not to attend an upcoming Falun Gong celebration to avoid upsetting the Chinese government. The email was mistakenly sent to all Members of Parliament, instead of just National MPs. Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman David…
NZ Herald | 5 May 2015 The Prime Minister’s office has said it has no factual basis for suggesting Edward Snowden documents which exposed GCSB secrets were “fabricated”. But it has also said some of those with access to the Snowden documents – apparently including journalist Glenn Greenwald – “have a track record of misrepresenting,…
NZ Herald | 3 May 2015 The sound of sanctimonious tut-tutting rose to a roar last week, almost drowning out the sighs of relief as people everywhere woke to the realisation The Bachelor was nearly over. Much of the muttering was inspired by the sight of Saudi Arabian royalty sitting down for some quality face…
Atlas Monitor | 29 April 2015 Unfortunately the situation in Iraq and the wider Middle East is now far worse than the predictable consequences of the hubris of Western policy in the Middle East. The conflict in the M.E. has taken on an even more complicated and peculiar complexion. Saudi Arabia and Israel are now…
RNZ | 26 April 2015 Originally aired on Sunday Morning, Sunday 26 April 2015 Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40-years and is a former Turkish honorary consul to this country. He says a century on the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer together but that the Turkish view…