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Australian High Commissioner Refused Re-entry to Fiji to Pack Up

The stand-off between Fiji and Australia over the expulsion of diplomats is worsening. Fiji has refused to allow Australia's High Commissioner to return to the country temporarily to pick up his belongings. High Commissi…
Sudanese Lobbyist breach U.S. Sanctions Stash Cash in Cooks Islands

WASHINGTON -- A former State Department official who is now a lobbyist was charged Tuesday with earning hundreds of thousands of dollars representing the Sudanese government in violation of United States sanctions. A fed…
New Zealand Warn Kiwi Tourist to Fiji

Kiwis travelling to Fiji are being advised not to expect any assistance from New Zealand's High Commission in Suva after tit- for-tat diplomatic expulsions. The High Commission is closed indefinitely after New Zealand's…
Julie Bishop calls for End to Fiji UN Peacekeeping

There are calls for the Rudd Government to take action against Fiji after the military regime gave Australian academic Brij Lal 24 hours to leave the country for making comments about the country's political situation. I…
Uncivilized Mob Mentality Confirmed

Fiji's interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, says he has no regrets with a decision to send New Zealand and Australia's top diplomats back home. In an interview with Auckland based Radio Tarana, Commodore…
Why Should New Zealand and Australia Bow to Frank Bainimarama

When an arrogant man treats you like shit once, perhaps you can forgive, when he does it again, you can give the other cheek, but when he does it thrice, then perhaps you need to listen carefully to what he has repeated…
Frank Bainimarama Stop Being A Terrorist

An Australian academic has been taken into custody in Fiji and is being questioned by the military after giving several media interviews on the current political situation. Professor Brij Lal, a long-time academic at Ca…
UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY ON MILITARY REGIMES

Unfortunately, military regimes are no better and usually worse than the civilian regimes they replace. They are authoritarian, repressive and decidedly undemocratic. They are not accountable to the public; they r…
Australia to Lead Democratic Pacific Island Nations at G20

The following information was released by the Senator the Hon Nick Sherry, Assistant Treasurer of the Australian Federal Government:Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry has met with Economic Ministers from across…
UNITED STATES SMART POWER AND CHINA

WHEN Hillary Clinton said in January that America should exercise “smart power”, Chinese officials and commentators pricked up their ears. Here was a neat way of describing, some of them said, what China too was try…