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Trying to decipher what is going on in the Coalition in Fiji is a bit like trying to decipher what was going on in the Kremlin during the Soviet era - a combination of getting small bits of information and piecing them together like a jigsaw puzzle to try to produce a complete picture or sometimes simple guesswork. Take this cryptic FBC News … [Read more...] about # SOMETHING BIG IS BREWING. BUT WHAT? (UPDATED WED AM WITH THE PM SAYING THE COI FINDINGS STAND)

"Trust me to ensure that the interests of all citizens are protected", says the Snake. Yeah, sure. Just like you protected them in 1987 and most recently when you allowed your supporters to call non-indigenous citizens "vulagi" - visitors in their country. Sitiveni Rabuka doesn't like the Labour Party leader and former prime minister, Mahendra … [Read more...] about # PROTECTING THE “VULAGI”. WHO THE HELL IS THE PRIME MINISTER TRYING TO KID?

Grubsheet and Fijileaks are irritants that the Coalition largely ignores. But when two bright, young iTaukei who are clearly budding intellectuals pen a devastating portrait of a government wallowing in dysfunction, it's another matter altogether. It is sit-up time. This is a cancer that could easily metastasize and swamp the body politic as a … [Read more...] about # OUCH. AN OBSCURE ARTICLE ON PAGE 49 STRIKES A RAW NERVE WITH THE NEW MINISTER FOR BULLSH*T, BONKING AND WEED

As we have with the COI Inquiry and other important milestones, Grubsheet is publishing the full landmark Supreme Court decision that has rejected any return to the 1997 Constitution but has made it easier to amend the 2013 Constitution, which it has established as the legitimate supreme law of Fiji. We are doing so not just for the benefit of … [Read more...] about # THE FULL SUPREME COURT OPINION ON THE VALIDITY OF THE 2013 CONSTITUTION (UPDATED MONDAY PM WITH MISSING PAGES INSERTED)

Make no mistake. The last thing Sitiveni Rabuka wanted arising out of the Supreme Court review was a return to the 1997 Constitution, even though that was the position of his own party, the People's Alliance. As with Frank Bainimarama before him, he owes his position to the "big man" provisions of the d'Hondt electoral system enshrined in the … [Read more...] about # WHY THE PRIME MINISTER IS SO “HAPPY” ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. HE’S GOT EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED

Plus the announcement live-streamed on YouTube: See previous analysis in our earlier "breaking news" article. More to come... … [Read more...] about # WHAT THE ROGUE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HEAD OF THE SUPREME COURT SAID ABOUT CHANGING THE 2013 CONSTITUTION