Archive: Council considers what to do about coup leader with ‘fanatical streak’
By David Robie in Suva
Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs is meeting at a military camp near Suva to decide how to respond to the...
Archive: Speight continues to hold cabinet hostage
By David Robie in Suva
Civilian gunmen leader George Speight today defied mounting international condemnation of the kidnapping of Fiji's elected cabinet, claiming that his...
Archive: USP student coverage of the ‘internet coup’ in Fiji 2000
Crisis coverage by University of the South Pacific journalism students
An archive of the exclusive University of the South Pacific journalism programme coverage of the...
Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four
By David Robie
Judging by how the number...
Archive: Media: Press freedom on the rocks
A feisty newspaper publisher's loss to the Samoan prime minister in a hefty defamation case and manipulation by the Fiji Information Ministry in an...
Archive: Media: NZ journalists in Fiji work permit tangle
Two New Zealand journalism educators are still in suspense over their positions at the University of the South Pacific amid controversy over the "politicising"...