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.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Fiji’s diplomatic manoeuvres
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.
Mungo: Rudd’s Pacific solution
Kevin Rudd’s announcement of the guest worker scheme really caught the imagination at the Pacific Forum, writes Mungo McCallum.
Triumph of the underdogs… and now the Wallabies’ World Cup begins
Fiji v Wales was worth the price of the big screen TV for the Rugby World Cup even if nothing much else happens. And certainly not much was happening for the Wallabies over the weekend, writes Michael Pascoe.
Rugby: Non-English world turns Tongan, Australia fields its B backs
The rugby fraternity appreciates an underdog more than most and for the French crowd, well, Tonga is playing England after all writes Michael Pascoe.
