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• Fiji

  As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser

  6 December 2022, by O’SULLIVAN Dominic

  Fijians go to the polls next week, but the country’s constitution still entrenches ultimate power and authority in the military.
  When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it’s likely their votes will be counted fairly – yet the country will remain a conditional and fragile democracy. (...)

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  Has Fiji’s democracy decayed into a police state ?

  10 June 2019, by TUDOR Owen

  Fiji’s restored democratic government has relapsed into a police state. A month ago, global union solidarity once again had to be deployed to get Fijian union leader Felix Anthony (president of the ITUC Asia-Pacific region) out of jail. And unions are now gearing up to raise the issue at this (...)

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  Fiji: Nurses, teachers strike against pay cut

  4 August 2007, by WILLIAMS Kerryn

  About 1400 nurses in Fiji, who began a strike on July 25, were joined on August 2 by thousands of teachers and other public servants, resulting in at least half of Fiji’s 20,000 public sector workers being on strike.
  Hospitals were paralysed and school classrooms were empty around the country. (...)

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  Fijian women oppose water privatisation

  16 March 2007, by Green Left Weekly

  The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement is protesting the March 13 promulgation of the Water Authority of Fiji Bill, which according to public service and public sector interim minister Poseci Bune will provide more “effective management” of water, including “opportunities for competition in the provision (...)

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  Behind Fiji’s coup

  12 January 2007, by ILTIS Tony

  On December 5, after weeks of speculation, the commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama announced that he had overthrown the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in Fiji’s third military coup in the past 20 years. On January 4, the military restored (...)