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Fiji
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Democratic reform needs to spread to the Pacific region
Fiji must hold immediate elections, return to democracy and recommit to a rights-based approach, writes Ged Kearney, president of the ACTU.
Perception of unsafe Qantas takes another headshot
Qantas has a crisis of perception that became worse overnight when a faulty fuel valve caused one of its aged Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 747-400s to make a precautionary landing in Fiji.
Fighting for survival in Cancun
Over at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Philip Ireland, catches up with Pelenise Alofa from Kiribati and Fiji to hear about climate change in her homelands and reflections upon the climate negotiations in Mexico.
Political snippets: When pressed, Abbott discovers he has a pair
Refusing to grant Simon Crean a pair so he could address the National Press Club today was not such a good idea by Tony Abbott.
Crikey Clarifier: why is Fiji so unsafe?
The suicide of a Fijian man at Villawood detention centre is a sharp reminder that many Fijians are forced from their homeland as a result of long-standing political unrest. So just how unsafe is the island nation? Crikey intern Nick Johns-Wickberg asks Fijian expert Professor Brij V. Lal.
Fiji censorship like dark matter: impossible to see, but still there
Censorship is an almost all pervading thing; anything even slightly critical is blue-pencilled out of existence. But it’s what’s not there that’s most important, writes Michael Field.
newspaper death watch 
Hartigan: Why we should fight The Fiji Times closure
It’s a sorry day for press freedom with the Fijian government forcing the sale of The Fiji Times, writes chairman of News Ltd — which publishes the paper, John Hartigan.
Stop press! Fiji’s censorship goes bananas
Fiji has announced an even further tightening of its strict media censorship, to lessen foreign ownership and positively depict Bainimarama’s regime. Is this an attempt to better control the Rupert Murdoch owned Fiji Times?
Mark Scott: The trouble with reporting the truth
Today is World Press Freedom Day. ABC boss Mark Scott reflects on the lack of free speech, government censorship and media control in countries — Fiji, Sri Lanka etc — less fortunate than our own.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Fiji’s diplomatic manoeuvres
Today’s Crikey tipsters tell: Fiji’s diplomatic attempt to send Australia a message, shire problems in the NT, is the Sunday Age all Gatto-ed out? and the Sunday Tele rewrites the history on Australian politics.
Hartcher: The unstoppable tropical mess of Fiji
Fiji’s military ruler Frank Bainimarama has gone rogue, officially severing diplomatic ties with Australia. We’ve responded by putting on aid sanctions. But since historically sanctions don’t bring about regime change, why bother? asks Peter Hartcher.
Video of the Day: Fiji Meat Man
Apparently this is an actual commercial in Fiji. Better than Sam Neill anyday.
No sunshine for Fijian journalists
Fijian authorities are censoring and intimidating the media with ‘Gestapo-like’ tactics, including arrests and interrogations, finds a damning new report on Fiji released by Amnesty International, titled Fiji: Paradise Lost.
Hope for a reformed Fiji has gone, now it’s Bainimarama’s turn
With Fiji now suspended from the Commonwealth, it’s becoming even more apparent that Frank Bainimarama has failed to reform Fiji and his time as leader is numbered, writes Kalafi Moala.
Commonwealth suspends Fiji, but Fiji in denial
World news sources are reporting Fiji’s suspension from the Commonwealth, due to the military government not agreeing to democratic elections. However, no one seems to have told Fiji…
Australia: the pot calling the kettle black in the pacific
Australia’s treatment of its own indigenous people seriously undercuts its credibility as a moral leader on human rights in the pacific region, says the Fiji Daily Post.
Fiji no longer the ‘bula-bula-happy-clappy land’
Post Fiji’s 2006 military coup, the economy is collapsing, morale is low and leadership is a mess. “Fiji is on the same path that Burma and Zimbabwe and Nigeria went down”, writes discombobulated.
How bottled water made a dictatorship cool
Fiji water is one of the trendiest and most popular bottled water brands in the world — just the name conjures up images of lush rainforests, tropical climates… and a repressive military dictatorship.
Fiji’s constitutional coup
Soldiers in newsrooms, judges sacked, constitution in tatters … but life goes on in Fiji.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: It’s the Ruddnet, not the Conroynet
To Joe Public it’s the Ruddnet, not the Conroynet, with Stephen Conroy remaining low on the media radar this week.
Fiji unravels: the view from the blogosphere
The Fiji blogosphere chats about Frank Bainimarama’s fear of a coup within a coup of his 3 coups.
Chinese takeaway in the land of the getaway
Enticingly cheap Fiji holidays were on offer this week, just as news seeped out that China will start projects there, focussed on poverty and managing natural resources, writes Kevin Childs.
Climate emergency in the Pacific
At a time when Queenslanders are inundated with massive flooding, spare a thought for our island neighbours, writes Nic Maclellan.
