Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ... sworn in as Fiji President. Photo: Radio Fiji
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Opinion – By Crosbie Walsh
As diplomatic relations with Australia and New Zealand continue to deteriorate, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been inducted President of Fiji for the next three years.
No vice-president is to be appointed.
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Scott MacWilliam on a strategy rethink for Fiji. Photo: ANU
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Opinion – By Scott MacWilliam in Canberra
The latest development in ANZ-Fiji relations shows clearly why the model of sanctions being imposed on the South Pacific nation-state encourages tit-for-tat, ill-conceived moves by all parties.
While one view is that ANZ governments have been deliberately egging on the Fiji military government to become ever more extreme, this seems a less likely explanation than another possibility.
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Fiji Broadcasting's expulsions report on its website today.
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By Pacific Media Centre news desk
UPDATED: The Fiji government’s expulsion order against Australian High Commissioner James Batley and acting New Zealand High Commissioner Todd Cleaver has been blamed on taped information given by the Chief Justice Anthony Gates to Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, Radio Fiji reports.
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Chief Justice Gates ... extraordinary judicial condemnation of Australia and NZ in defence of Fiji legal system. Photo: PMC
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By Pacific Media Centre news desk
Fiji’s Chief Justice Anthony Gates has condemned Australia and New Zealand for breaching international conventions over judicial “interference” and “hostility” and has called on both countries to lift travel bans on the judiciary.
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