Related pages: articles and alerts about the NZ Terrorism Suppression Legislation; Human Rights; Military deployments, alliances and spending.

This page was archived in 2006 due to lack of resources to keep it regularly updated, more recent material will be added above from time to time.

Archive: 1999 to 2003

• Police put in big effort to counter terrorism, NZPA, 21 October 2003
• Counter Terrorism Bill - submissions due on 9 May 2003
• Open Letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of State Security, October 2002
• Letter to the SIS Minister on UKUSA Agreement, Anti-Bases Campaign, 25 October 2002
• Rules of secrecy in the brochure, Vernon Small, 8 October 2002
• Spy chief to detail new legal powers, Brendan Nicholson, 19 August 2001
• Urgent! GCSB submissions, PMA, 28 June 2001
• GCSB Bill, submissions due 30 June 2001, PMA, 22 June 2001
• Waihopai Spybase Protest, 10 January 2001
• Police snooping needs tight rein says report , 3 January 2001
• Once the e-snoop starts, who guards snoopers?, Keith Locke, 14 December 2000
• SIS focuses on spies, terrorists and weapons, Dominion, 9 December 2000
• Cybersnooping: submissions due, PMA, 1 December 2000
• Restriction on public say over snooping laws, Green Party, 30 November 2000
• Reply from the SIS director, 8 August 2000
• Cyber-cops set bells ringing, NZ Herald, 29 July 2000
• Veil drawn around base's role, 23 July 2000
• Echelon Update, Scoop, 23 June 2000
• Government Spy Agency Watchdog "complete waste of time and taxpayers' money" : Complainants call for abolition or radical overhaul, David Small and Aziz Choudry 13 June 2000
• 'David defeats Goliath', article from 'Peace Researcher' (June 2000)
• Alert ! Call for a Select Committee Inquiry into the Criminal Intelligence Service (19/5/2000)
• 'Political Police' Inquiry Call Long Overdue (13/5/2000)
• Greens support inquiry into police intelligence service (12/5/2000)
• Call for Inquiry into Police Intelligence Service (12/5/2000)
• Britain plans cyber-centre to spy on the Internet (10/5/2000)
• Police searched academic's house because he is a social justice activist (8/5/2000)
• GATT Watchdog on APEC SIS/Police debacle (8/5/2000)
• First-ever laser antimissile system hits target in field test (5/5/2000)
• Cyber-treaty Goes Too Far? (3/5/2000)
• EU Fixes Agenda for Hearing on Global Surveillance (26/4/2000)
• Spying the modern way in Holland (20/4/2000)
• U.S. spying pays off for business (14/4/2000)
• European Parliament Inquiry should produce Waihopai rethink (29/3/2000)
• Greens "subvert" spooks committee (16/3/2000)
• Keith Locke on Echelon (2/3/2000)
• Spy agencies listened in on Diana (27/2/2000)
• I Spy Trouble (27/2/2000)
• Big Brother May Be Spying on You (27/2/2000)
• Spotlight goes on spy base (25/2/2000)
• Australia drawn into spy scandal (25/2/2000)
• French anger at US-British global spying (24/2/2000)
• Spies in the sky - more on Echelon (19/2/2000)
• Intelligence officer's death under scrutiny (16/2/2000)
• Waihopai - potential for use in nuclear attack ? (12/2/2000)
• French to sue US and Britain over network of spies (10/2/2000)
• Close the Waihopai Spybase Now! (7/2/2000)
• Fury over secret US nuclear shield in Britain (30/1/2000)
• Waihopai Spybase Protest 2000 - Media Coverage (25/1/2000)
• Waihopai Spybase Protest 2000 (13/1/2000)
• Foreign agencies access spy bases - Greens co-leader calls for inquiry (28/12/99)
• Silly Season Timing Perfect for Annual Intelligence and Security Report (27/12/99)
• ECHELON Examined - Officials Looking to Uncover How Funds Used for Spy Work (22/11/99)
• ACLU Launches Web Site On Global Surveillance System (16/11/99)
• Echelon - The most secret of secret agencies operates under outdated laws (14/11/99)
• US Congress Holds Hearings Into Global Spy Network (6/11/99)
• Shipley must come clean on spy network in NZ (5/11/99)
• Spy Network Eavesdrops on E-Mails; Protesters Try to Jam System 22 October 1999
• More information on Jam Echelon Day (14/10/99) 21 October 1999
• Jam Echelon Day (14/10/99) 21 October 1999
• Communications 'Intelligence'? - Interception Capabilities 2000 (10/10/99)
• US sets up cyber war centres (10/10/99)
• U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets (17/9/99)
• Another media blackout (12/9/99)
• SIS - first commissioner (9/9/99)
• Update - SIS No. 2 Bill(media release) (25/7/99)
• Update SIS - New Head (media release) (13/7/99)
• NZ Media coverage on SIS case - Eugene Bingham (7/7/99)
• Update: SIS court case - APEC Monitoring Group (8/7/99)
• SIS - ruling by the Appeal Court (6/7/99)
• For conspiratorial types.. (14/5/99)
• SIS - Submissions due! (29/4/99)
• SIS 'Break In' Bill (23/3/99)
• Green Party Petition on the SIS Due 5 February (11/1/99)
• Do you want the SIS in your home? (11/1/99)

Links

• Security & Intelligence in Aotearoa New Zealand: featured in the May 2000 'Te Putatara' is an in-depth analysis of all the organs of the state that conduct security and intelligence operations against the citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand, and against foreigners, including the SIS, GCSB, EAB, CIS, UCMe, ICU, ABC, XYZ and many others. And an invitation to join the Maori Intelligence Service (MIS) in the Dungeon Bar.

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) website on Echelon - the global electronic surveillance system. This site encourages public discussion of the potential threat that Echelon poses to civil liberties, and allows visitors to fax free letters to Congress, urging their support for a congressional inquiry into the Echelon project. It also provides a collection of research documents on Echelon.

• Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties (UK), a non-profit civil liberties organisation - this site has everything you could ever possibly wish to know about the interception of electronic messages, spies, the policing of cyberspace and much more !

• Canadian article on Echelon - a new report on the Echelon spy network (which includes Waihopai).