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Media ownership rules: Tailor-made for Fiji
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Marc Edge: Fiji has to tailor its regulations according to what it needs. This statement, which I made recently in a presentation to the quarterly meeting of media liaison officers from the Ministry of Information, was...
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Silent Fiji religious leaders must rise to the human rights challenge
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Wadan Narsey: For 95 percent of the time, the activities of Fiji’s religions have been good for Fiji’s development.  For perhaps 5 percent of the time, their actions have caused great harm.
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China: Youth, memories and politics in Beijing
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Kim Bowden: In the Heat of the Sun is set in Beijing during the madness of the Cultural Revolution – Chairman Mao’s heyday. But it is not really a story about politics, the Party or China, although all these...
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East Timor’s oil: Petroleum fund a blessing but cannot solve problems
Monday, August 29, 2011
Guteriano Neves: The case of Timor-Leste proves once again how petroleum dependency turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing. The petroleum fund model, in and of itself a good idea, cannot solve the complexities...
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Why newspapers are really in crisis and the problem for democracy
Thursday, August 18, 2011
David McKnight and Penny O’Donnell: An Australian inquiry into media bias would ignore the bigger crisis facing newspapers in the digital age.
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The birds are crying for their great chief, Sir Paul Reeves
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Alexander Winkler of Te Waha Nui Online: Even the weather seems to mourn as a bus with staff and whānau of AUT University pulls in on the premises of Holy Sepulchre Church on Khyber Pass Rd. A freezing cold rain is...
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China's new middle class control planet's future
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Kim Bowden: OPINION: China is rapidly becoming a land of the rising middle class - and a force that will either tip or balance the scales on the environmental future of the planet.
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Sir Paul Reeves: Moderating political morasses in Fiji
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Wadan Narsey: TRIBUTE: Sir Paul Reeves  (RIP) contributed enormously not just to his Māori community, but also to the wider Pakeha community in New Zealand.
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Indonesia: iMove's up-to-the-minute take on contemporary dance
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Corazon Miller: True to form, it is three nights out from opening night and props are still being hammered together. Dancers waltz in late - after a last minute dash to find a costume.
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1981 Springbok tour media analysis extensive but shallow
Monday, August 8, 2011
John  Minto: OPINION: Yet another anniversary of the 1981 Springbok tour is upon us and media coverage has been extensive but generally shallow.
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Social media activism in PNG plays role in political upheaval
Friday, August 5, 2011
Laura Stewart, Michael Dwyer and Stephanie Lagerstedt: Social media-driven political activism reached its peak in the Pacific this week, with the controversial appointment of a new Prime Minister in Papua New Guinea...
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PNG vote for new leader weakens link to Michael Somare era
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Rowan Callick: Papua New Guinea's parliamentarians have swept aside Acting Prime Minister Sam Abal and replaced him, by 70 votes to 24, with another Highlander, Peter O'Neill.
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Battle to seek justice for Fiji pensioners strikes new legal defining point
Monday, August 1, 2011
Professor Wadan Narsey: ANALYSIS: Fiji’s system of law and justice is at a historically defining point with the Burness/Shameem case against the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF).
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To The Front: A media date with a warmonger
Saturday, July 30, 2011
John Minto: OPINION: Tony Blair’s fleeting visit to Auckland yesterday via private jet was a pathetic affair which exposed the venality of our corporate elites and their media hangers on.
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Murdoch and the Australian media - no rules to break
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wendy Bacon: ANALYSIS: How did we end up with a corrupt multinational running Australia's most powerful media company? Murdoch's long record of opposing press regulation has helped - as our timeline shows
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