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New Zealandʼs Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme: Pathways and Prospects
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT Managed temporary labour migration from the Pacific has grown in importance in recent years as New Zealand and Australia seek to fill seasonal labour shortages and strengthen regional relationships by providing cash‐earning opportunities to citizens of Pacific Island countries.
Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford
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The Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Food (Prices) Security: Evidence From Targeted Countries
The World Economy, Volume 48, Issue 8, Page 1942-1956, August 2025.ABSTRACT Our paper examined the impact of economic sanctions on food prices and security. Anecdotal evidence suggests that food security is threatened in nations subject to sanctions. However, the causal link has not been proven. We employ a two‐way fixed‐effects approach and leverage the entropy balancing technique to ascertain the existence of a ...
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor +2 more
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Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis
Pacific Journalism Review, 2002 Both the Fiji Times and the Daily Post reinforced the colonial myth that Fijian chiefs are the rightful rulers of Fiji, emphasising that Fiji, and this presumably means Fijians, was not ready for a multiracial constitution.
Lynda Duncan
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Adapting Postcolonial Island Societies: Fiji and the Solomon Islands in the Pacific
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Sovereign Pacific island states attract little attention from the great powers. They achieved independence peacefully, mostly from the United Kingdom, and have generally maintained functional democratic societies.
Adrien Rodd
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Ethnocracy and Post-Ethnocracy in Fiji
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016 Fiji’s history is interspersed with ethnic conflict, military coups, new constitutions and democratic elections. Ethnic tensions started to increase in the 1960s and reached its peak with violent indigenous Fijian ethnic assertion in the form of military
Sanjay Ramesh
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Emerging human dimensions research in coastal and nearshore Oceania
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract Calls for incorporating human dimensions into marine conservation have increased and begun to coalesce as marine social science. However, it is unclear what types of research and foci have been centered in this new interdisciplinary field and what gaps remain.
Rachel Dacks +2 more
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Tuning in: Does TV news influence the political process in Fiji?
Pacific Journalism Review, 2007 Local television news programmes in Fiji have been the most watched programmes for the entire 13-year history of broadcast television in the country. Although survey polls consistently show that television news is extremely popular, the influence it may ...
Dale Hermanson
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Oceania, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 160-183, November 2024.ABSTRACT In Indonesian‐occupied West Papua, Christianity has been adopted, adapted, and transformed by the indigenous people of various ethnic groups to become part of their social and cultural landscape. Christianity has also prominently figured in their continuing struggle for political self‐determination.
Cypri Jehan Paju Dale
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Evidence, ideology and miscalculation : public opinion and the 1987 military coups in Fiji
, 1991 Scarr Deryck. Evidence, ideology and miscalculation : public opinion and the 1987 military coups in Fiji. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 92-93, 1991-1-2. pp.
Scarr, Deryck
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‘Short views’ on Fiji coups fail to answer key media questions
Pacific Journalism Review, 2010 The first premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhou Enlai (1949-1976), when asked about the impact of the late eighteenth century French Revolution, supposedly responded that it was too early to tell. Apocryphal or not, his ‘long view’ always needs
Scott MacWilliam
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