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Keith James Locke〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members Sworn Volume )〕 (born 1944) was a New Zealand MP representing the Green Party who was first elected to parliament in 1999 and retired from parliament at the 2011 election. He was the Green Party spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Defence, Ethnic Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Human Rights, Immigration, Police and Auckland Transport. He served on the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee. During his 12 years in Parliament he won a number of awards. He was twice named 'Backbencher of the Year', first in 2002 by Vernon Small, then deputy political editor of ''The New Zealand Herald'', and again in 2010 by ''The Dominion Post'' political staff. He also received the New Zealand Republic's Colonel Allen Bell Award in 2011;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keith Locke - Colonel Allen Bell Award, 2011 )〕 the New Zealand Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender Award in 2012;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amnesty gives human-rights award to Keith Locke )〕 and the Federation of Islamic Associations for New Zealand's Harmony Award in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keith Locke Receives Harmony Award at IAW Launch )〕 Since retiring from Parliament, Locke has joined the boards of the Auckland Refugee Council and the New Zealand Peace and Conflict Studies Centre Trust. He writes on political issues for New Zealand newspapers and the Daily Blog.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keith Locke - Daily Blog )〕 ==Family and background== Locke was born and grew up in Christchurch, to Jack and Elsie Locke, prominent lifelong political activists for a wide variety of causes. Their four children were brought up in this environment and followed their parents into a life of activism, (as well as Keith, his sister Maire Leadbeater is a well-known activist and former city councillor for Auckland City Council). His father Jack was under surveillance during the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Secret strike files opened )〕 Former Prime Minister Robert Muldoon is said to have described the Lockes as the most "notorious Communist family in New Zealand". The Lockes lived in the Avon Loop area of the Christchurch Central City and were very active in the community notably organising Avon River clean-ups and native tree planting and arguing against development of the area, and in favour of retaining the character of the area. He attended Christchurch Boys' High School〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greens.org.nz/people/keithlocke )〕 and has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Canterbury and then went to Canada for a Masters in Sociology at the University of Alberta. He studied towards but never completed a Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Toronto, before returning to New Zealand. Locke lectured in Sociology at Victoria University from 1970–72, but then decided to leave academia to work as a full-time editor of the fortnightly socialist paper, Socialist Action, from 1972 to 1976. From 1978 to 1984 he worked as an active socialist and unionist in a car factory, railway workshops and meatworks in the Wellington region. In 1985 he moved to Auckland, working in the Auckland City abattoirs, 1985-86. From 1986 to 1990 Locke worked full-time as the national coordinator of the Philippines Solidarity Network, based in Auckland. From 1990 to 1999 he was manager of One World Books, a non-profit bookshop in Auckland specialising in social, environmental and development issues.〔(Green Party website bio )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Locke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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