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How do political coups disrupt Fiji's tourism? Impact assessment on ecotourism at Koroyanitu National Heritage Park (KNHP), Abaca [PDF]
Heliyon, 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.
Mumtaz Alam +2 more
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REVIEW: Coups, globalisation and Fiji’s reset ‘democracy’ paradigm
Pacific 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
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Restoring Democracy: Australian Responses to Military Coups in Fiji
Journal 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
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The contempt case of the 'Tongan three'
Pacific 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
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OBITUARY: Vale Robbie Robertson, a 'son of Fiji and the Pacific'
Pacific 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
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The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji : A Coup to End All Coups? [PDF]
, 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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Failure of political governance in Fiji: Dysfunctional policy and the media
Pacific 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
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The 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...
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Elite sources, journalistic practice and the status quo
Pacific 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
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The media and the coup leader: Sitiveni Rabuka
Pacific Journalism Review, 2005 Brigadier-General Sitiveni Rabuka, the former prime minister of Fiji who gained notoriety for staging twin coups in 1987, has enjoyed a love-hate relationship with the Fiji and Pacific media for almost two decades.
Anthony Mason
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