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Fiji has endured four coups in the past 22 years. On 10 April 2009, President Ratu Josefa Iloilo suspended the Constitution, sacked the judiciary, postponed any general election until 2014 and appointed himself as head of state.
Patrick Craddock
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Fiji journalism pioneer remembers: Vijendra Kumar
A transcipt of an interview with 1975 Fiji Times editor, Vijendra Kumar.
Anthony Mason
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Fiji’s coup culture 1987-2006: A media perspective
Since attaining independence from Britain in 1970, Fiji enjoyed a period of ‘multiracial peace’ for 17 years under Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and this gave the country the utopian slogan: ‘Fiji―the way the world should be.’ But was this really so?
Thakur Ranjit Singh
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Spectacular transition in the Pacific
Crocombe has provided a wealth of information that is invaluable for the region (Fiji) as a beanchmark text but it would have been improved with tighter editing and more attractive and user-friendly design features.
David Robie
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A controversy over a sexual liaison between Fiji prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and a Fiji Times journalist led to threats to deregister The Review -- the news magazine that broke the story. In Fiji, during March and April 1994, there was mixed reception
The Review
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FIJI: The evolution of media laws in Fiji and impacts on journalism and society
This article examines the cultural, political, ethnic and economic forces that have shaped the evolution of media legislation in Fiji and the evident impacts on journalism and society.
Shailendra Singh
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This article moots the idea of ‘responsible conflict reporting’ in Fiji and the South Pacific. Prolonged conflict, including three coups since 1987, has resulted in a pattern of social and economic decline in Fiji.
Shailendra Singh
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FORUM: Fiji's 'embedded journalists'
Dr Tupeni Baba's speech at the relaunch of Pacific Journalism Review, 3 October 2003.
Tupeni Baba
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REVIEW: An engaging analysis of core issues
Review of Government by the Gun: The unfinished Business of Fiji's 2000 Coup, by William Sutherland and Robbie Robertson, Sydney: Pluto Press. Government by the Gun starts with a brief overview of the events of May 2000: the seizure of Parliament and ...
Nic Maclellan
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Current and Future Implications of the Coups for Women in Fiji [PDF]
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
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