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Alerts and articles

• Counter Terrorism Bill - submissions due on 9 May 2003
• Police urged to stop New Zealanders backing 'terrorist' invasion - ACT and Tenix NZ named, Brendan Tuohy, 13 April 2003
• Speech on the Counter-Terrorism Bill, First Reading, Keith Locke, 2 April 2003
• Alert! New Terrorism Suppression Legislation, PMA, 2 April 2003
• Fresh alert over terror threats, Harry Pike, 23 March 2003
• Threats to make attacks on public seem low risk - is the publicity about cyanide threats all that it seems to be? Dr David Small, 14 March 2003
• Tough new anti-terror laws give cops hi-tech powers, Guyon Espiner, 8 December 2002
• Justice the loser in rush to find Bali scapegoat, Maire Leadbeater, 5 November 2002
• NZ lists Jemaah Islamiyah as terrorist group, Helen Clark, 1 November 2002
• PM sounds terror alert - Kiwis with even distant links to newly designated terrorist group Jammah Islamiah may get a visit from the police Prime Minister Helen Clark says, Colin Espiner, 1 November 2002
• Anti-terror laws widened, John Armstrong, 16 October 2002

• Further round of anti-terrorism laws in Parliament soon, INL, 16 October 2002

• Greens alone in opposing terrorist bill, NZ Herald, 11 October 2002

• Parliament passes tough anti-terrorist laws, INL, 10 October 2002

• Speech in the Second Reading of the Terrorism (Bombings and Financing Bill), Keith Locke, 9 October 2002

• Urgent! Terrorism Supression Bill, PMA, 9 October 2002

• Make this Bill an election issue! PMA, 20 June 2002

• New document reveals what the government really wanted in the Terrorism Suppression Bill, Jane Kelsey, 15 May 2002

• Alert! Terrorism suppression legislation, PMA, 10 May 2002

• Coming soon - NZ anti-terrorism legislation, PMA, 29 April 2002

• Update! Terrorism Suppression Bill, PMA / Green Party, 22 March 2002

• Terrorism Suppression Bill thoroughly misguided: only justice can cure terrorism, Arena, 22 March 2002

• Our double standard law misses the legal terrorists, Dr Peter R Wills, 5 December 2001

• Anti-terrorism legislation - submissions due, PMA, 8 November 2001

• NZ government assets to be frozen? PMA / Arena, 30 October 2001

Submissions opposing the Bill

Below are some of the submissions sent to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee opposing the proposed Terrorism Suppression Bill in November 2001.

• Northland Urban Rural Mission

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Aotearoa)

• Jane Kelsey

• GATT Watchdog

• Peter Wills

• Socialist Party of Aotearoa

• Socialist Workers Organisation

• Latin America Committee

• Indonesia Human Rights Committee

• Peace Council

• Anti Bases Campaign

• Arena

• CASI

• Human Rights Commission