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Fiji’s coup culture 1987-2006: A media perspective
Pacific Journalism Review, 2012 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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Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji [PDF]
, 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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Pacific Journalism Review, 1994 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
Pacific Journalism Review, 2015 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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Pacific Journalism Review, 2013 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'
Pacific Journalism Review, 2004 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
Pacific Journalism Review, 2002 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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From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Judicial independence expanded globally throughout the twentieth century, but this trajectory has recently come under pressure. In recent years, governments around the world have increasingly challenged judicial autonomy. This study unpacks this global reversal by analyzing data from 156 states between 1960 and 2018.
Nir Rotem
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Pacific freedom of the press: Case studies in independent campus-based media models
Pacific Journalism Review, 2010 South Pacific university-based journalism school publications were innovative newspaper publishers from 1975 onwards and among early pioneers of online publishing in the mid-1990s.
David Robie
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Teaching in Fiji: practising medicine, coping with coups. [PDF]
CMAJ, 1989 Cameron BH.
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