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How do political coups disrupt Fiji's tourism? Impact assessment on ecotourism at Koroyanitu National Heritage Park (KNHP), Abaca [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
The nexus between mass tourism and politics has been widely validated in tourism literature; nonetheless, the impacts of political putsches on ecotourism are understudied in the context of the Pacific Islands, i.e., Fiji.
Sakul Kundra   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Restoring Democracy: Australian Responses to Military Coups in Fiji

open access: yesJournal of International Studies, 2015
This article examines Australian responses to successive military coups in Fiji as well as the 2014 Fijian election. In each of Fiji’s three military coups, Australia failed to strike an appropriate balance between simultaneously condemning these ...
Andrew Kelly
doaj   +5 more sources

The contempt case of the 'Tongan three'

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 1996
Media commentators see the jailings of two Taimi 'o Tongajournalists and an MP whistleblower in Tonga as the most serious threat to media freedom in the South Pacific since the Fiji coups in 1987.
David Robie
doaj   +4 more sources

REVIEW: Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset ‘democracy’ paradigm

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2018
The General’s Goose: Fiji’s Tale of Contemporary Misadventure, by Robbie Robertson. Canberra: Australian National University. 2017. 366 pages. ISBN 9781760461270 When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe ...
David Robie
doaj   +4 more sources

Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2002
Both the Fiji Times and the Daily Post reinforced the colonial myth that Fijian chiefs are the rightful rulers of Fiji, emphasising that Fiji, and this presumably means Fijians, was not ready for a multiracial constitution.
Lynda Duncan
doaj   +3 more sources

OBITUARY: Vale Robbie Robertson, a 'son of Fiji and the Pacific'

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2022
While most University of the South Pacific academics were united in their opposition to the 1987 and 2000 coups in Fiji – and many of them suffered in various ways from the 1987 coup, the 2006 coup was divisive in that quite a few senior USP academics ...
Wadan Narsey
doaj   +1 more source

Failure of political governance in Fiji: Dysfunctional policy and the media

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2023
Failure of political governance in Fiji is a common place where lack of democratic bargaining, political transparency, and accountability has led to political dysfunction and often political strife in the Pacific Island countries such as Fiji due to ...
Sanjay Ramesh
doaj   +1 more source

The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji : A Coup to End All Coups? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, soldiers and politicians – including deposed Prime Ministers Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry. The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji:
Fraenkel, Jon   +2 more
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Editorial: Fiji's Coup Conundrum [PDF]

open access: yesThe Round Table, 2012
When Commodore Frank Bainimarama deposed Fiji's democratically elected government on 5 December 2006 in the country's fourth coup in 20 years, most citizens breathed a sigh of relief that a long-si...
openaire   +2 more sources

Elite sources, journalistic practice and the status quo

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2007
In a time of crisis, when there is a signifi cant amount of uncertainty about the means and motivations of those involved, news sources have the ability to determine how an event is represented to an entire society.
Anthony Mason
doaj   +1 more source

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