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As a unique group of people, Rotumans make up less than two percent of Fiji’s population, and as a minority Indigenous ethnic group in Fiji, they have remained relatively hidden and silent in political affairs. Outmigration from the island has led to more than 80 percent of Rotumans residing outside of Rotuma.
Rufino Varea +3 more
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FIJI: ‘Stifled aspirations’: The 2014 General Election under restrictive laws
On 17 September 2014, eight years after the 5 December 2006 coup, Fiji held a General Election under repressive laws curtailing freedom of expression and the media, government accountability and the judiciary.
Mosmi Bhim
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A reflection on environmental awareness and the media in Fiji
Issues of ‘failed’ nation-states, political meltdowns, coups and increasing militarisation have dogged the recent postcolonial history and environment of the Pacific. This, aside from the political and economic effects generally ascribed as the main societal impacts from such crises, has important social and cultural effects that are largely ...
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Politics, democracy and the media: Case studies in Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands
This article looks at three South Pacific Island nations—Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands—in terms of some landmark changes occurring in their political arenas. Fiji, beset by racial and political problems culminating in three coups, is experimenting with a multiracial, multiparty cabinet that could be emulated by other multiethnic countries. Tonga,
Shailendra Singh, Som Prakash
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© 2020, Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of Technology. All rights reserved. As a unique group of people, Rotumans make up less than two percent of Fiji’s population, and as a minority Indigenous ethnic group in Fiji, they have remained relatively hidden and silent in political affairs.
R Varea (10014179) +2 more
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Pacific Media Watch and protest in Oceania: An investigative free media case study
In the past three decades, global and regional media freedom advocacy and activist groups have multiplied as risks to journalists and media workers have escalated.
David Robie
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Dysfunctional eating behaviours, anxiety and depression in Italian boys and girls: the role of mass media [PDF]
Objective: Extensive research has implicated identification with characters in mass media in the emergence of disordered eating behavior in adolescents.
Angelo Maria, Saliani +5 more
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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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Fiji media and salaries: News sells- but journos face 'poverty'
'We would all love to earn more. But taking the economic and political situation into account, I believe a number of journalists have proved that through hard work, dedication and a high degree of professionalism they can make a successful career for themselves in the media.'
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Is freedom of the Pacific press really free?
The sale of the Daily Post and the draconian decision by a Samoan court to gag the Observer are worrying developments for the Pacific news media. Even if the Fiji Government upholds its promise to stay out of the Daily Post's day to day activities ...
Ingrid Leary
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