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Situating women: gender politics and circumstance in Fiji [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing ...
Nicole George, George, Nicole
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Wendy Bacon: A bullet and an orchid

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 1995
Wendy Bacon, a winner of the Walkley Award, exposed corrupt activities by some New South Wales police officers and also foreigners implicated in the Fiji coups.
Sophie Kuasi
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REVIEW: Noted: Human touch, revealing media insights into Speight’s coup

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2006
At 10.45am on the morning of 19 May 2000, Fiji’s Parliament was disrupted when six gunmen entered and demanded the government step down. This is how it happened: Mr Speaker: (Standing up) What is this? Stranger No.
Christine Gounder
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Fragments from a coup diary

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2009
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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Spectacular transition in the Pacific

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2008
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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FIJI: The evolution of media laws in Fiji and impacts on journalism and society

open access: yesPacific 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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Fiji’s coup culture 1987-2006: A media perspective

open access: yesPacific 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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Responsible conflict reporting: Rethinking the role of journalism in Fiji and other troubled Pacific societies

open access: yesPacific 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'

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2004
Dr Tupeni Baba's speech at the relaunch of Pacific Journalism Review, 3 October 2003.
Tupeni Baba
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