Articles Tagged: understanding

Understanding the Fiji High Court judgment by Guest blogger Now Guest blogger: Sanjay Ramesh teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney, and is Senior Political Editor at the Sydney Fiji Times and Adjunct Fellow at the University of Fiji. The 9 October High Court judgment on the case between deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama focused on the reserve powers of the President. Qarase's legal team argued that the reserve powers o

With respect to other military personnel who have brains, looks, gumption and morals , when a person like Bhainiramarama who has been taught by rote to bark his name, rank, and serial number when prompted, it is to be expected that all other thinking and speaking outside of the square will be, and has been painful to behold - let alone endure ! And indeed so it has come to pass. On full gruesome display to the world for the past 18 months. How many more times are the people of Fiji to wake up

An Australian media researcher has found that many journalists covering the first three Fiji coups in 1987 and 2000 were too reliant on elite sources to provide a good understanding of the complex crises.