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Grubsheet Feejee is the blogsite of Graham Davis, a dual Fijian-Australian national working as a media and communications specialist in both countries and in other parts of the Asia Pacific.
Graham has had a four decade-long career in the mainstream media in Britain, Australia and Fiji. He has reported for the BBC, ABC, SBS and the Nine and Seven Networks and has written for a range of newspapers and magazines in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. His multiple awards include Walkley and Logie Awards in Australia and a New York Festivals Medal in the United States.
More recently, Graham has been a consultant to the GeoPolitical Solutions division of the global communications company, Qorvis-MSLGROUP, which represents a range of sovereign clients around the world. Part of his brief is to assist the Fijian Government with its program to introduce the first genuine democracy in the nation’s history in 2014.
Graham is broadly supportive of the Bainimarama Government's reform agenda but invites comments from people of all political persuasions. Please don't label your return volley "anonymous". Give yourself a name or pseudonym so that readers can track your progress over time.
Many of these postings have appeared in mainstream newspapers such as The Australian and the Fiji Sun – where Graham has been a columnist - and on other websites, including newmatilda.com and Pacific Scoop NZ.
Feejee is the original name for Fiji - a derivative of the indigenous Viti and the Tongan Fisi - and was widely used until the late 19th century.
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Politics Archive
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![Australia’s impotence in influencing events in its own backyard is being demonstrated in dramatic fashion this week as the Fijian dictator, Frank Bainimarama, fulfils his long-held ambition to assume the chairmanship of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. All of the other Melanesian leaders – from Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu plus the Kanak FLNKS from New Caledonia – are joining […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_0171_3-115x115.jpg "#18 CHAIRMAN FRANK’S PACIFIC COUP")
#18 CHAIRMAN FRANK’S PACIFIC COUP
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 27 CommentsAustralia’s impotence in influencing events in its own backyard is being demonstrated in dramatic fashion this week as the Fijian dictator, Frank Bainimarama, fulfils his long-held ambition to assume the chairmanship of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. All of the other Melanesian leaders – from Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Vanuatu plus the Kanak FLNKS from New Caledonia – are joining […] -
![The Australian Labor Party’s worst election result in New South Wales in more than a century can’t simply be written off as an enraged electorate taking its revenge on a corrupt and incompetent government. It’s also the writing on the wall for federal Labor as its traditional support base of aspirational blue and white collar workers and pinot-swilling social progressives […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/D7K_0495-115x115.jpg "#17 THE LIGHT ON THE HILL EXTINGUISHED")
#17 THE LIGHT ON THE HILL EXTINGUISHED
Posted on March 27, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Australian Labor Party’s worst election result in New South Wales in more than a century can’t simply be written off as an enraged electorate taking its revenge on a corrupt and incompetent government. It’s also the writing on the wall for federal Labor as its traditional support base of aspirational blue and white collar workers and pinot-swilling social progressives […] -
![Tony Abbott is playing with electoral fire with his latest foray outside the doors of the parliament to join what the organisers described as a grassroots protest against the Government’s carbon tax but seemed more like a gathering of the looniest of Australia’s looney right. The opposition leader seems to have no compunction whatsoever to be seen publicly with the […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/D7K_0438_2-115x115.jpg "#16 SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL")
#16 SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 1 CommentTony Abbott is playing with electoral fire with his latest foray outside the doors of the parliament to join what the organisers described as a grassroots protest against the Government’s carbon tax but seemed more like a gathering of the looniest of Australia’s looney right. The opposition leader seems to have no compunction whatsoever to be seen publicly with the […] -
![So Australia is to have a carbon tax from July 1st 2012, despite assurances from Prime Minister Julia Gillard before the last election that such a tax would not be imposed. The Australian electorate is used to our politicians behaving with craven self interest. But there can be few more cynical instances of a Prime Minister resorting to such a […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/images-2-115x115.jpg "#7 UNCONSCIONABLE DECEPTION AND EMISSIONS OF HOT AIR")
#7 UNCONSCIONABLE DECEPTION AND EMISSIONS OF HOT AIR
Posted on February 24, 2011 | 1 CommentSo Australia is to have a carbon tax from July 1st 2012, despite assurances from Prime Minister Julia Gillard before the last election that such a tax would not be imposed. The Australian electorate is used to our politicians behaving with craven self interest. But there can be few more cynical instances of a Prime Minister resorting to such a […] -
![Someone we know who taught Tony Abbott at Sydney’s Saint Ignatius College has a wonderful story that tells us much about the man who thinks he was robbed of the chance to lead Australia at the last election and certainly intends to do so after the next. The year was 1975 and Tony Abbott was in Year 12, a confident […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Unknown-115x115.jpg "#5 THE MADNESS BLOCKING THE PUGILIST’S KNOCKOUT PUNCH")
#5 THE MADNESS BLOCKING THE PUGILIST’S KNOCKOUT PUNCH
Posted on February 20, 2011 | No CommentsSomeone we know who taught Tony Abbott at Sydney’s Saint Ignatius College has a wonderful story that tells us much about the man who thinks he was robbed of the chance to lead Australia at the last election and certainly intends to do so after the next. The year was 1975 and Tony Abbott was in Year 12, a confident […] -
![Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may well be someone totally unconcerned with personal hygiene, as some of those who’ve been in close proximity to him maintain. It’s neither here nor there for those of us keen to keep our distance from this strangely unsettling character, with his Mogadon manner and haughty self-righteousness. Yet there’s something distinctly odious about the way this […]](http://www.grubsheet.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/images-1-115x115.jpg "# 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE")
# 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE
Posted on February 18, 2011 | 2 CommentsWikileaks founder Julian Assange may well be someone totally unconcerned with personal hygiene, as some of those who’ve been in close proximity to him maintain. It’s neither here nor there for those of us keen to keep our distance from this strangely unsettling character, with his Mogadon manner and haughty self-righteousness. Yet there’s something distinctly odious about the way this […]