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Four Slices of Fiji Time

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract “Fiji time” is a well-known concept in Fiji, similar to notions of “Island time”, “Pacific time”, and other conceptualisations that represent Pacific islanders as people who are skilled in the arts of chilling out and being late.
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Is freedom of the Pacific press really free?

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 1999
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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Coup editorial content: Analysis of the Fiji 2000 political crisis

open access: yesPacific 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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Investigative journalism: Discovering the HIGHlands

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2019
Commended: The Fiji Times team of reporter Ilaitia Turagabeci and photographer Asaeli Lave were commended for their report uncovering a drug farm in the Rakiraki highlands where cash-starved villagers thrive on income from 'grass'.
Asaeli Lave, Ilaitia Turagabeci
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Waiting for the wave, but missing the tide: Case studies of climate-related (im)mobility and health

open access: yesJournal of Migration and Health, 2023
Climate change amplifies health risks, including through the health impacts of climate-related displacement. Yet diverse mobility responses in a warming world can also provide a pathway for climate change adaptation. This article examines the connections
Celia McMichael   +2 more
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Estimating the duration of antibody positivity and likely time of Leptospira infection using data from a cross-sectional serological study in Fiji [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundLeptospirosis is a zoonotic disease prevalent throughout the world, but with particularly high burden in Oceania (including the Pacific Island Countries and Territories). Leptospirosis is endemic in Fiji, with outbreaks often occurring following heavy rainfall and flooding.
Eleanor M. Rees   +5 more
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Rabuka and the reporter

open access: yesPacific 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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EDITORIAL: Free media rhetoric

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2002
At this time of the year, there are the usual platitudes and rhetoric about "media freedom" in the Pacific. The Fiji Times, for example, complained in an editorial about politicians with a "misguided theory" that Fiji was not ready for a critical and ...
David Robie
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The media and the coup leader: Sitiveni Rabuka

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2005
Brigadier-General Sitiveni Rabuka, the former prime minister of Fiji who gained notoriety for staging twin coups in 1987, has enjoyed a love-hate relationship with the Fiji and Pacific media for almost two decades.
Anthony Mason
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Ma`afu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji: The life and times of Fiji’s first Tui Lau [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove.
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