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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
exaly   +4 more sources

Restoring Democracy: Australian Responses to Military Coups in Fiji

open access: diamondJournal 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   +8 more sources

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

open access: hybrid, 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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Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji [PDF]

open access: green, 2008
May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the ...
Lal, Brij V., Pretes, Michael
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Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis

open access: diamondPacific 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

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

Current and Future Implications of the Coups for Women in Fiji [PDF]

open access: green, 1990
The impact on women of the two military coups in Fiji is the focus of this paper. Essentially, the coups have simultaneously generated new problems for women while reinforcing the existing economic, ideological, and polit-ical conditions that sustained ...
Lateef, Shireen
core   +2 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
exaly   +3 more sources

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