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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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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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Fiji journalism pioneer remembers: Vijendra Kumar

Pacific Journalism Review, 2005
A transcipt of an interview with 1975 Fiji Times editor, Vijendra Kumar.
Anthony Mason
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Café Pacific and online censorship in Fiji

Pacific Journalism Review, 2000
A commentary on how, more than a decade after the military coups, a hangover from the post-coup 1990 Constitution of Fiji cast a shadow on the media and journalism education methodology in 1998, in spite of the new "free specch" 1997 Constitution.
David Robie
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Magic City, Value City: The moral geography of Suva Fiji

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Fiji has had a turbulent political history of successive coups that have caused the nation to oscillate between the pursuit of ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism.
Lucas Watt
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Coup Coup Land : A Comparative Study of the Coups of Fiji

, 2008
A thesis presented on the political history of Fiji from cession to Britain in 1874 compares and analyses the country’s four political coups. A military coup occurred in 1987 by Lt. Col Sitiveni Rabuka. Six months later he staged a self-coup. In 2000 George Speight staged an armed civilian coup or putsch, and in 2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama, head ...
Purcell Sjölund, Anita
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Fiji’s coup conundrum [PDF]

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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REVIEW: Vibrant, stimulating view of region's nationalism, media

Pacific Journalism Review, 1995
Review of: Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific, by David Robie. London, Zed Books, 1989; Sydney: Pluto Press, 1990; Manila: Malaya Books, 1991.
Alan Robson
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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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A case for Fiji’s grassroots citizenry and media to be better informed, engaged for democracy

Pacific Journalism Review, 2010
Democracy in Fiji has been top-down where primarily the middle class and the wealthy elite have understood its true merits and values. Politicians, professionals, academics and civil society organisations, rather than the grassroots population, have been
Mosmi Bhim
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