Fornote: Freedom New Zealand stands behind all the Unions against the spying and using an anti-terrorism unit for spying is much like that used in industrial America and Soviet Union days. The nanny police state of New Zealand is incognito with mechanism of big brother, an acknowledgment of more than rights being violated and the government rising to to much power, which one day Martial law will be declared if/when things get worse - thats if we dont change things. Here is where liberals become anarchists and eventually anarchists become revolutionaries.

A significant reduction in prison drug use is expected to be one direct result of new technology which is being introduced to block cellphone use.

From February, cutting edge technology will mean cellphones will not work in jails.

Corrections Association President Beven Hanlon says at the moment it is impossible to stop prisoners using cellphones, as inmates are skilled at hiding them.

He says the new technology will prevent a lot of crime on the inside and outside, as prisoners will not be able to use their phones to organise drug drops or plan escapes.

Mr Hanlon says the technology has been trialled in Hawke's Bay and appears to be working, however he says there is still one gap in the strategy.

He says at the moment mail is checked at random but the rules need to be changed so that letters and packages can be more thoroughly scrutinised.

Few Labour voters may realise the full extent of what the Clark government has in mind - or has allowed to get out of hand - with its rewrite of the 1987 Immigration Act. To date, the parties on the centre right (National, Act, United Future) have also shown little interest in the Immigration Bill's sweeping extensions of state power, while the anti-immigrant crew within New Zealand First must be thinking all their Christmasses have come at once.

Under this legislation, it is proposed that immigration officials should be given powers of entry to business premises and private homes and enhanced powers of search, seizure and detention without warrant. The CEOs of any government department or agency will be able to decree information as classified, and thus put it beyond direct access or query by the people most affected by it. Access even to a summary of what is being alleged will be conditional, and at the state's discretion.

Even if allowed, a summary of allegations can be made as skeletal and un-informative as the state decides. Firstly, any such summary will be only of the allegations arising from the information, and need not summarise the information itself. Secondly, clause 216 of the Bill says the summary will not be required to list any of the documents, or detail any of their contents or contain anything that might identify the source of any of the allegations. Good luck with mounting a viable defence - against whatever it is the state thinks you have done - under such conditions.

There's more. The Bill empowers Immigration officials to compel people to provide biometric information without the Bill containing firm guidelines or procedures for the use, retention, security, accuracy, storage and sharing of such data. There is no overt statement about the relation of the new Bill to the Privacy Act, or support for its protections on fair handling of personal information and bodily integity. There is only the kind of vague mention found at clause 92, which opens up more problems than it resolves - by saying ( incorrectly) that the Privacy Act gives immigration officers power to ' further deal' with the personal data they have collected and retained.

Clause 92 of the Bill also says that New Zealand citizens returning home can be compelled to have photographs taken of them - "subject to regulations" made under the Bill - in order to prove they are who their passports say they are. A close reading of the biometric information definition clause (at p 20 of the Bill) indicates these mandatory photographs need not be restricted to facial photographs - a concern that was raised by some of those who made submissions on the Bill. So much for bodily integrity.

The Immigration Bill is now before the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee, and is due to be reported back to the House on June 30. In the House last year, then Immigration Minister David Cunliffe boasted that the legislation would reflect international best practice standards.

"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."

"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"

TOKYO - She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around US$175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

"Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that's sweet and interactive," said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualisation, can also hand out business cards, sing and dance, with Sega hoping to sell 10,000 in the first year.

Japan, home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots, envisions a $10-billion market for artificial intelligence in a decade.

- REUTERS

Three peace activists, accused of deflating one of Waihopai spy base's domes with sickles today, have been remanded in custody on criminal damage and burglary charges.

But police told Blenheim District Court they were considering charging the men with sabotage under the Crimes Act, an offence which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years' jail.

Damage to the Marlborough base, run by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), is estimated at more than $1 million.

Samuel Peter Frederick Land, 24, of Hokianga, Adrian James Leason, 42, a teacher from Otaki and Peter Reginald Leo Murnane, 67, a Dominican friar from Auckland, have all been charged with intentionally damaging a satellite, the property of the GCSB, and entering a building with the intention to commit a crime.

At today's bail hearing, Judge Richard Russell remanded Leason and Murnane in custody without plea to reappear in court on Monday. Land's bail application was adjourned until Monday and he was also kept in custody.

The three men were arrested early this morning, after allegedly using bolt cutters to cut through three security fences and one of two 30-metre domes covering satellite interception dishes was deflated.

They were part of a group called Anzac Ploughshares which aims to spread the message of disarmament by disabling warplanes and military equipment. The group's name comes from a biblical reference to turning swords into ploughshares.

Described as a satellite communications monitoring facility, opponents of the base say it is part of Echelon, the worldwide network of signals interception facilities run by American and British intelligence agencies and contributes to the war in Iraq.

As they were taken from the court into the police van, Land said he was going on a five-day hunger strike, and Leason said he would pray for those in Iraq, where one million people had died, the Marlborough Express reported.

"The war in Iraq takes some explaining," Murnane said.

GCSB deputy director for corporate services Hugh Wolfensohn told the Express the attack had caused more than $1 million damage, but the base was still operating.

"There's been no significant reduction in work. Obviously there's been some (reduction) because we've got an antenna out of action."

He did not know when repairs would take place.

GCSB director Bruce Ferguson told Radio New Zealand the activists had penetrated three fences before deflating the dome. Alarms were activated when the dome was contacted but CCTV footage was no help due to heavy fog, he said.

"I think it was exquisitely good timing for them, rather than planning, in that respect," he said.

Air Marshal Ferguson said the security breach was "deeply disturbing" and remedial measures would be put in place to ensure it did not happen again.

Two two-metre cuts were sufficient to deflate the dome. Then the activists ran around the base of the aerial randomly slicing at other areas, he said.

The domes, made of a rubberised material, acted purely as a "waterproof jacket" to protect the antennae from adverse weather.

A Ploughshares spokesman, Manu Caddie, said planning the attack on the base involved a lot of texting, emails and phone calls, which were not intercepted.

"I guess it shows that the system doesn't work that well."

But Air Marshal Ferguson said the GCSB Act of 2003 specifically forbade targeting of New Zealanders or New Zealand permanent residents.

"We are in the business of collecting foreign intelligence ... satellite collection is there to collect foreign intelligence for the briefing and use of the New Zealand Government," he said.

Prime Minister Helen Clark condemned the attack "as a senseless act of vandalism".

She said the Government had received no comment from other countries regarding the breach.

- Source
30/04/2008

Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe and Police Minister Annette King this month announced the allocation of VHF and UHF spectrum for the exclusive use of agencies with responsibility for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR). This allocation affects such agencies as the police, border control and civil defence.

Spectrum in the ranges of 138-144 MHz (ESB band) and 494-502 MHz (ESC band) will be employed for digital land mobile radiocommunications.  It will be used initially for a new digital radio network being developed by the NZ Police, which is intended to extend over time into a whole-of-government emergency radio system.  The network will be based on the APCO-P25 international digital standard for radiocommunications, which has recently been adopted as an e-government standard.

- Full Release/Source

Sign #1 Banks loaning more money. Finance companies going under and monetary control centralized into banking only, governments trying anything from Kiwisaver to new taxes (carbon etc) to make people have less but actually spend *cough, borrow more money from the banks, so debt increases. The servicing of debt in which the people are the BORROWER and the bank is CREDITOR to issue the money. See the video 'Money As Debt' here

Sign #2 Gold & Oil prices increase - which is good for some reasons, they continue to rise even today. Changing the value of paper money issued by the private controlled foreign corporations otherwise known as Reserve Banks, i.e BoE, BoJ.

At this stage some things need explaining for those not full awaken to whats is going on...

In these times governments and central banks have in the past worked together against the people to prohibit persons from; possessing gold, trading gold, storing gold, use for commerce and gains. This in effect locked down the control of money, thus wealth into the elite rich few, hence a pyramid extending out as it goes down was created, this enslaves the majority. In turn, the public are led to believe they are free in a so-called 'democracy', when in fact more and more laws and statues were and are continued to be created to limit such freedoms whether related to commerce and finance or not.
In this point drugs and oil whether legal or not are passed through a echelon ranging from intelligence agencies, a nations army down to the street corner (not always in this order directly). For those who do not believe this, I simply ask for you to look at U.S Federal Reserve issued currency, there's a pyramid symbol on it, with a detached zenith at its peak, with an Egyptian eye or to some the sign of Big Brother.
Also to note the CIA (Cocaine Imports of America) and the OSS, the Contra's & the Vietnam war plus many others being involved, this is not a conspiracy theory, there is proof!

I quote what they always plan, 'Anything that can be regulated and registered by control of the international bankers whether it be puppets fronting as government or otherwise will be regulated, registered and put into a form of law with or without consent from the people.

Now an article I found from the mainstream below....

The US Federal Reserve has announced an emergency cut in interest rates and taken more than US$30 billion ($37 billion) of Bear Stearns' assets; the US dollar has flopped to an all-time low against the euro, and hit a 12-year low against the yen; the Bank of England saw fit to lend a further 5 billion ($12.5 billion) to the banks; the Mumbai stock market was down 6 per cent, Hong Kong fell 5 per cent and Frankfurt 4 per cent.

Even President George W. Bush admitted: "We are in challenging times."

Is this the moment? The moment, that is, when the world economy slides into slump? The collapse of Bear Stearns is a signal of much worse to come.

Perhaps the most significant barometer of the economic health of the world today isn't the FTSE-100, the Dow or the Nikkei, dreadful though they were at times, nor even the free-falling dollar or the soaring value, yet again, of gold.

Rather it is the suddenness with which the situation is being compared with the 1930s, the most miserable decade in a century of economic history.

That may be an apocalyptic view, a typical product of the mood swings of markets suffering from bipolar syndrome; but the world economy is sick.

It is suffering from illnesses that are beginning to feed on each other, creating a vortex of downward spirals. Grim forces have gripped the world economy, a combination not seen since the Great Depression.

I thought this maybe interesting for some people...
A disclaimer notice I found on the internet (one of many), I noticed Iraq and Afghanistan were never on the list, wouldn't surprise me if Venezuela was added too just for the bogus-ness.

This Software and Service are subject to the United States Export Administration Regulations. No Software or Service may be downloaded, used or exported into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods. By checking this box, you represent and warrant that you are not and are not controlled by a national or resident of any such country.

WASHINGTON - Google has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to US military bases, military and company officials said.

Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defence, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and expected the company to cooperate in removing selected images from its Street View service.

"We have been contacted by the military," Google spokesman Larry Yu said. "In those instances where they (the U.S military) have expressed concerns about the imagery, we have accommodated their requests."

The Defence Department, which is still studying how many images are available, has also banned Google teams from taking video images on bases.

"We've got to get a sense of what is there and see how we can mitigate it," Renuart said.

But because many images were taken from public streets, the military may not have a legal right to request that videos be pulled.

Street View, a feature of Google Maps, offers ground-level, 360-degree views of streets in 30 US cities. Web users are able to drive down a street, in a virtual sense, using their mouse to adjust views of roadside scenery.

The feature has become a popular service for drivers seeking to plan a trip to an unfamiliar neighbourhoods. But from the outset, Street View has been a magnet of controversy over potential privacy invasion of people captured in the images.

In one instance, a man was pictured exiting a San Francisco strip club. In another case, a woman was shown sunbathing. Complaints have even included a woman asking that a picture of her cat be taken down, a request Google denied.

The images that worry the Pentagon include views of bases, including security at the entrances to those installations.

"It actually shows where all the guards are. It shows how the barriers go up and down. It shows how to get in and out of buildings," said Renuart, commander of US Northern Command.

"I think that poses a real security risk for our military installations," he told reporters at the Pentagon.

The Google spokesman said his company's policy was to photograph only those images visible from public roads.

"It is against Google's policy for a driver to seek access to a military base," Yu said.

Street View has yet to be introduced outside the United States. Web-based Google Maps and a related computer-based service called Google Earth have drawn criticism from a variety of countries for providing images of sensitive locations, such as military bases or potential targets of terror attacks.

The services rely on civilian versions of satellite maps that it licenses from commercial mapping services.

A person at Parliament is making too many "political" alterations to New Zealand entries in the open-access internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, says media commentator Russell Brown of Auckland.

Politicians and staffers "editing" such entries should have to declare their interests rather than remaining anonymous behind the strings of numbers which make up internet "addresses" for individual users, Brown said today in his Hard News "blog".

"I think 202.22.18.241 is doing way too much, and behaving in too political a way, for someone hiding behind an IP address," he said.

"I'd rather see Parliamentary editors register and declare interests in their profiles".

Wikipedia records the exact time and IP address - the numerical identifier of each computer on the internet - when any user alters a page.

The IP address used for the June 2007 alterations - to remove information about the deputy Opposition leader Bill English's moral beliefs and family - is assigned to the New Zealand Parliament, Brown said.

The initial entry said of Mr English: "He married a Catholic GP, Mary, and they now have six children - five boys: Luke, Thomas, Rory, Bartholemew and Xavier; and one daughter, Maria. He is a devout Catholic himself, and upholds his churches opposition to abortion, voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, civil unions in New Zealand and prostitution in New Zealand.

"His wife Mary edited the newsletter of an anti-abortion medical practitioners group, Doctors for Life, and served as president of a conservative Christian women's group known as the Family Education Network, before stepping down when her husband was elected Leader of the Opposition. Both organisations are now defunct"

These passages were cut to: "He married a GP, Mary, and they now have six children - five boys and one daughter, Maria".

When another Wikipedia "editor" argued with 202.22.18.241 yesterday, the anonymous user at Parliament said: "The material in question has absolutely nothing to do with Bill English. If you want to detail the life and practice of his wife, start a page on her."

Brown said "whoever sits at 202.22.18.241 is Parliament's busiest Wikipedia editor. There are more than 500 edits logged against that IP address".

After a new piece of software, WikiScanner, was released last year, an Auckland blogger, Cameron Slater, who writes as "Whaleoil" used it to track changes to the popular internet encyclopedia being made on computers at Parliament. "202.22.18.241 is by far and away the busiest little beaver in Parliament on Wikipedia," said Slater, who endorsed Brown's call for transparency in the use of Parliamentary computers and staff to edit online encyclopaedia.

"Because of the IP address, we don't know whether that is a National Party staffer, or a Labour staffer who is running a disinformation campaign to make it look like a National worker is doing this."

Other editions of the encyclopaedia on Parliamentary computers showed one, 202.22.18.1, displayed an interest in Christian politics, Nandor Tanczos, Maurice Williamson, Salient magazine, and Gerry Brownlee.

And 202.22.23.2 spent "an awful amount of time" editing NZ Cabinet but also had an interest in autonomous building, South Schleswig Voter Federation, Wilson Whineray, Hello Sailor, and fixed up some typing errors on Australian constitutional law.

Slater said 02.22.17.232 "doesn't seem to do any work remotely connected with Parliament as they have edited Villa Farnese, The Misfits, Andrew Penn and Sam Wills", while 202.22.16.246 seemed to enjoy coffee and Spanish swear words, and 202.22.18.242 had an interest in Crusader Tanks, and Panzer III.

"It tells us that there is still plenty of waste going on as these guys are all editing these entries, not simply reading them," said Slater.

- NZPA

Investigations into home-grown security threats have appeared in the annual report of the Security Intelligence Service for the first time since anti-terrorism efforts were increased after September 2001.

In the agency's annual report, new director Warren Tucker said that while most terrorism happened on the other side of the world, "the service must not relax its vigilance".

He listed investigations the SIS had done over the past year, including into "individuals who have been assessed as putting New Zealanders' security at risk".

The highly secretive service usually lists, in broad terms, what areas it has worked in. This frequently includes investigating people in New Zealand with suspected links to Islamic extremists and terrorist groups, and foreign spies working here. However, mention of possible threats on the country's soil are rare.

The report is sparse on detail, but it could be a reference to SIS involvement in the investigation into alleged weapons camps in the Ureweras, over which the Solicitor-General has since refused to allow terrorism charges to be laid.

The report also indicates the SIS foiled attempts by foreign spies in New Zealand. It mentions an investigation which led to advice to the Government of espionage threats to New Zealand by "hostile intelligence services" and the disruption of those threats.

The SIS's role in anti-terrorism measures has expanded since 2001 and in his report, Mr Tucker said the service had restructured to ensure it could be effective in the future.

"The world is changing, methods of communication and use of the internet, both as an educator and a means of influence, have become more sophisticated and made the world 'a smaller place'.

"The service must continue to work with its fellow intelligence community counterparts to develop the expertise necessary to operate within this changing environment."

The report also shows an increase in the number of reports on "threat-related issues" by the Combined Threat Assessment Group (CTAG), which did 212 reports on threat-related issues last year, compared to 144 the year before. (See here for some earlier debates on reporting)

The group is made up of the SIS, police, Government Communications Security Bureau, defence intelligence and border officials and was set up in 2004.

On a side note about the SIS, Richard Woods, the former Security Intelligence Service head honcho, has been appointed chairman of the Environmental Risk Management Agency.
He begins a three-year term on April 11 and replaces Neil Walter.

Social networking a new tool for (well not so new) the elite to monitor the population.
We have already seen in New Zealand police use social site 'bebo' to track people down.

A legal expert I spoke to also confirmed that such companies like Baycorp or Financial Institutions may also with any other third party partner of there business disclose and use your personal information without warrant.

You will see the video makes good use of exposing the pyramid structure or echelon of facebook and the CIA connection.

Again, big brother is watching!

The anti-terror raids of October 15 resulted in the seizure of only four
weapons and 230 rounds of ammunition that have led to charges.
So with that in mind, they were not conducted by the N.Z Security
Intelligence Services, but police and four weapons will not suffice for
a war against the country like the governmental forces along with media
falsely portrayed to us all. The targets were never the NZ people,
rather the government.

This can be led to a conclusion of, this can be used by the system to
subliminally market the terrorism law or bill or whatever rubbish you
wish to call it, and use it against any person in N.Z like the the
Corporation of the United States has.
No one in this country would intelligently without coercion, understand
this bill, act and most other statues and laws. If they did, rest assure
they would not consent to it. If anything they would be joining the
protesters outside parliament.

This piece of law or bill, is much like the Street Racers bill, which
can now target any driver with an unregistered car and deem to apply
them under a offence of street racing, it's bullshit.
I have various proof of this recently, in one case a police dog handler
impounded a car under the Act -though the car was not modified and he
called them a street racer for going 12k's over the speed limit, the
rego was 33 days over. Damn revenue gathering trickery when laws are
passed time and time again without specific definition and just expect
any person to comply or else. This is not true representative democracy.

Back to the early-morning raids which involved more than 300 officers.
Good way to waste time and money to add note.

The police have not said what they seized in the property searches in
Auckland, Waikato, the Bay of Plenty, Wellington and Christchurch using
warrants alleging crimes under the Terrorism Suppression Act and have
declined a request to do so.

But of 16 people charged with firearms offences, items seized on October
15 are the basis of charges against only two - Tame Iti, and a man who
has name suppression.

Logically four weapons could do a small-medium sized bank robbery or
less, but war and assassination? That's utter bullshit and any actions
under the terrorism bill or supposed to be new law is unjustified and
denies the rights and freedoms for those involved in the police
harassment ordeal, including martial law like tatics by ski-mask fully
automatic armed storm-trooper police.
The only terrorism was done is by the police. Instilling fear and terror
into a group of children and communities, re the bus storm-boarding like
ruthless pirates.

It has been revealed in the mainstream that the charges Tame Iti faces
include illegal possession on that date of three rifles - a Ruger, a
Siga and a Machtech - while the other man is charged in regard to a
Ruger rifle and 100 rounds of .22 calibre bullets and 130 rounds of .303
calibre ammunition.

Most people in rural communities with a gun will have .22 and/or .303
style firearms for hunting, as also the comment from one of the friends
of those arrested and detained by police during the raids. As proved by
protests all around the country, these people are activists, not terrorists.

So these hunters, which now surfaces a story one was a off-duty police
officer, which found the so-called training camps, came to the
conclusion of a mass training ground for terrorists, when these
activists could of possibly had the same style of firearms the hunters had.
Adding to this a napalm bomb was found said most of the mainstream media
initially, however for public safety police would have to (as they, high
ranking pork-chop Broad said thats what this raid was based on) disarm
the bomb, they never said at any point 'ingredients or partial materials
for a bomb' - I will hold them to those words.

The last arguement is no real threat assessment seems to be performed
here by an expert if anyone.

The mainstream comments to say:
Many of the 16 are charged jointly with up to 12 others and the dates
the offences are alleged to have occurred relate to dates of the alleged
training camps in the Ureweras. The earliest charges relate to November
2006.

The Crown predominantly appears to rely on evidence from surveillance of
the camps and interception of conversations. While the latter would be
admissible for charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act, it is
unlikely to be for firearms charges.

Meanwhile, the Solicitor-General says he has no plans to provide a
detailed assessment of flaws he identified in the Terrorism Suppression
Act, which he said was "almost impossible to apply in a coherent manner".

Kiss your freedoms goodbye, The piece ‘The only reason this bill is being pushed through is to introduce a whole new offence of a terrorist act with a life penalty’ is concerning, as to what or who is defined as terrorist, remember in the states anyone can be defined as one without trial and held

The story below.

Parliament today voted 108-13 to strengthen terrorism suppression laws, but Parliament was told the bill had no relevance to last month’s police raids and the Solicitor-General’s ruling against charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act.

The Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill was drafted long before the police raids with the main purpose of allowing New Zealand to meet its international obligations in terms of designating terrorist organisations.

But it also creates a new offence of committing an act of terrorism, under penalty of a life sentence, and gives the prime minister responsibility for designating groups and individuals as terrorists.

It is those provisions, which have now been passed into law, that have set the Maori Party, the Greens and ACT against Labour and National.

There were fiery clashes during earlier debates on the bill, with Maori MP Hone Harawira accused of effectively justifying anarchy when he said he opposed laws which allowed “state forces” to terrorise his people.

During today’s debate United Future leader Peter Dunne said it might seem perverse to be passing the bill under present circumstances, but Parliament had to because terrorist designations would otherwise lapse and those organisations would become legal entities in New Zealand.

ACT leader Rodney Hide said the bill and its parent legislation - the Terrorism Suppression Act - allowed people to be locked up with charge.

“This bill does away with the fundamental rights of every New Zealander,” he said.

“This is a fascist law, it puts power into the hands of politicians.”

National’s foreign affairs spokesman, Murray McCully, said the bill bore no relation to the arrests.

“None of the events of recent weeks touch upon the matters that are contained in this bill,” he said.

But Mr McCully said Parliament had unfinished business to deal with.

“The events of the past few weeks will at best have caused serious doubts - at worst some loss of confidence - in the institutions and processes by which this country is protected from serious disorder,” he said.

“We cannot merely leave matters where they stand.”

Mr McCully said New Zealanders were entitled to expect that Parliament would take “all of the appropriate steps” to ensure the public could have confidence in the law and those who enforced it.

Green Party MP Keith Locke, a fierce opponent of the bill, could not speak on it today because he had previously taken part in the debate but he told reporters it was “completely false” to claim it was needed to meet international obligations.

“We were meeting them under existing legislation,” he said.

“The only reason this bill is being pushed through is to introduce a whole new offence of a terrorist act with a life penalty,”

In Parliament, Mr Locke tried to delay it by using a tactic that would have delayed its third reading to April 1 next year.

His bid was defeated 108-13, the same majority the bill received on its third reading.

The only change in the voting pattern compared with previous stages of the bill was that former Labour MP Taito Phillip Field, now an independent, voted against it on its third reading.

He had previously supported it.