…and to keep Fiji out of the clutches of the Chinese. Fiji is like an impecunious good-time girl at Traps on a Friday night. In one corner is a Chinese guy. In the other, an Aussie. Who is more likely to give her a good night out? Or does she cuddle up to one as the night progresses and then pursue the other when the drinks start to dry up? Hands up how many people have seen that before?
This is no longer just aid for specific projects but to prop up the nation’s budgetary shortfall. And guess what, Fiji? As the country literally depopulates as Fijians of all ethnicities head for the exit and the tax base is steadily eroded, this is just a taste of things to come.
But when does a nation cross over from being a nation of beggars to being a nation of whores? Please refer to our previous article about the number of prominent leaders willing to excuse the inexcusable at the birthday party of the Chinese military on Friday and think about it. Is there any price we won’t pay to sacrifice our morality, independence and sovereignty if there is money on the bar? Just like the pretty girl at Traps?
This is a story that again underlines the folly of a genuine woman of ill repute – the weed-addled Queen of Tarts, Lynda Tabuya – in presiding over a process of enriching MPs with pay rises and unconscionable benefits like duty free vehicles when Fiji is going cap in hand to nations like Australia literally begging for money to prop up basic services for ordinary Fijians.
The Coalition government is totally degenerate. Just like the threesome video clip at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics or the Last Supper/ ancient Greece tableau that has Christians up in arms the world over. Only that what happens in Fiji every day is just as bad.
Like the “f**k me brutal” antics of Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel last August that cost the Minister for Bonking and Weed the deputy leadership of the People’s Alliance but kept her in the cabinet because her patron, the Prime Minister, is the biggest degenerate of all. (see below)
An entire government at the bar and on the make. For sale to the highest bidder.
Wouldn’t she have been perfect in Paris? For the threesome or the Last Supper/ ancient Greece skit?
The Japanese Ambassador, Rokuichiro Michii, is the latest potential donor to find himself sitting at the bar with the resident Queen of Tarts.
Some strange body language here from the Madam. Is she playing hard to get? Or is she aware that Grubsheet was bound to pounce on this picture to embarrass her new “friend”?
Congratulations, Ambassador, on joining your Chinese counterpart in being the only two heads of mission (so far) willing to be photographed with the Minister for Bonking and Weed after her Melbourne sexcapade.
But you can expect a grilling from your wife when she sees the picture.
Is that last photo the Fiscal Review Committee?
Are you suggesting the guy in the blue body suit is the Chair? Seti. Get ready for the law suit. Except in my experience, it will never come. Kaila!
The Traps Bar, go there on Fri & Sat and one is bound to find a few Baimaan look alike girls doing just that, waiting to be ‘Shouted’ for their next drink and more.. so look carefully people !
A Grubsheet gold star to the first person who gets a pic of Biman himself being shouted a drink.
All government ministers, including the PM are so proud when they receive and accept charity.
It is like a great achievement for them. There is salusalu, kalavata and cake cutting and smiles all around. Keep the charity coming so that they can pay themselves pay rises and all the benefits while mismanaging the economy. Isn’t being a third world country great. Couldn’t be prouder!!!
Why are Australian tax payers footing a begging bowl of Fiji. About time to go fend for yourself.
Get rid of Albo
What’s the point of Australia giving money to Fiji and Australia not knowing if the money will be used wisely, when instead Australia can take over Fiji, turn Fiji into an Australian territory, and make Fiji citizens into Australian citizens, and know that Australian money will be used wisely? Australia giving money to Fiji and not getting anything in return apart of thinking that it will keep China out of Fiji, is a loss for Australia.
Simply because Australia is clever, throwing a little bit of money around to keep the greedy ministers happy is way better than inheriting a country on the brink of collapse, full of corruption, a sinking economy, drugs, mass migration.
Because it doesn’t want another Northern Territory to clean up after??
The Fiji Labour party is doing a great job…calling it what it is.
Rabuka is playing both and all sides and its clearly obvious. Like every other leader his days are numbered and its only a matter of time when it will all come crumbling down….well for the PM, it will be the second time.
Biman’s Opinion piece in the Fiji Times when he was in the opposition: The begging-bowl government
Opinion | Published: December 18, 2021 | By Professor Biman Prasad
Clearly Biman is Khaiyum’s avatar and PAP is FijiFirst avatar. Only a much worse version. Read and see for yourself the lies they told us. I’m sure GrubSheet will thoroughly analyze the speech in today’s context.
He said “we owe an immense debt of gratitude to Australia and New Zealand. Without their cheque books we would have unpaid public servants, desperate welfare recipients and completely collapsed government services.”
He stated that the “Economy Minister (ASK) could not quite put the boasting aside.
He accused FF government of having to “beg Australia and New Zealand for cash”.
He claimed, “We no longer have the ability to borrow money sustainably”.
Accused FF Government ministers of collecting daily subsistence allowances of thousands of dollars, and paying itself lavish salaries and allowances.
Said FF government “spends it on itself, for the benefit of its members and to make itself look good.
https://www.fijitimes.com.fj/opinion-the-begging-bowl-government/
Shame on those unprincipled Mock Women MPs behind the front row. They should have been exemplary in supporting the war against drugs by actually walking out of the Mock Parliament, to protest against the presence of the Minister for Bonking and Weed. After all, parliamentary walkouts are common and have happened in Fiji too. The unclean Minister, by being let off the hook by her boss, is a disastrous role model for all young women and girls. Poor Ambo must now be very uncomfortable and overflowing with regrets.
These budgetary support gifts by Australia, and occasionally by New Zealand, were previously in targeted, whereas this latest one by Australia is targeted, but they have the same effect. They relieve pressure on the Fiji Government to cut back on non essential spending and thus contribute to the continuation of a bloated and inefficient public service.
Do both Australian and Fiji tax payers have the right to question the efficacy of these budgetary support grants. In trying to do us a favour in the long term they are doing us a disfavour.
At least the girls at traps are pretty. These fellas look like something from the bottom of the barrel. Like someone has aptly put the “global soli” is on a roll and the weiner takes it all . Tragic.
At his recent budget speech Biman Prasad announced that the originally forecast deficit of 4.8% had actually been reduced to 4% because government ministries were unable to implement programmes funded in the budget.
This amounted to a hefty sum of FJD253,000 or nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.
Australia’s gift of the equivalent of half that sum is oblivious of Fiji’s glaring lack of absorptive capacity in our public service.
It will become like water off a ducks back, divert scarce resources away from other important areas and result in more unspent budgetary allocations at the end of the financial year.
Surely there has to be a better way to use those funds?
The kere kere mentailty that Fiji’s elites have created will only end when ordinary Fijians migrate.
Not sure when the eyes and ears of itaukei and Ka’india people will fully open. Work hard, save, give your family a better life by taking your skills to Australia, NZ, USA and Canada.’
This is the only way to hurt the elites.
PNG is a bigger beggar nation. So too are other island nations in the Pacific. So Fiji is not alone.
We wanted to be better than this. We could have been self sufficient and great. Do you honestly think that anyone at Independence in 1970 gave a toss about PNG (their independence was another five years off) or anyone else?
We were going to be an example to the rest of the region of how to do it properly. Alas. Does anyone who isn’t of my generation understand the betrayal many of us feel about a historical opportunity missed? For Fiji to be genuinely equal partners of the larger democracies and a beacon for other developing countries?
Does anyone understand why people like me are so angry????
Ha ha this echoes Khaiyum’s propaganda about Fiji better than Singapore etc. He was pissing into the wind.
Yes, I do. We have to diversify our economy and not beg. Full stop. This is tragic. And Fiji will be next Samoa. Remittances will be your backbone economy soon.
This! This exact lazy whataboutistic attitude that pisses on the hardworking ethic of those who remain in Fiji.
Lazy, kanaloto, ignorant, shameless!
Vili: Are you sure Fiji should aspire to be like any country that might not be doing better than us?
By your reasoning, Fiji should measure our worth with lower standards of governance? Aspire for mediocrity? Or do we work towards realizing our full potential.
Today we learn 193,000 out of 238,000 (75%) itaukei live in extreme poverty. Why?
This is after more than 50 years of independence. What could be done to help people get out of extreme poverty.
Flippant reasoning to suggest Fiji compare itself favorably with country X because Xs poverty rate is higher than 193k. We must not pat ourselves in the back to say we are doing better than country X.
Government must not ignore its obligation to help people better their lives.
We need to think first before putting our tongue into gear.
The Australian HC said the financial support is for Fiji to navigate it’s economic and health crisis.
Well if the naval ship is anything to go by we hope that this and the future funding promised @40 % increase will not be “navigated” on to the reef.
Biman has just returned from heart surgery in NZ. When Frank and Aiyaz had surgeries, Biman had insisted that Fijians be informed of their medical conditions as this would be an indication of whether they are medically fit to remain in office. Why didn’t Biman announce to the country that he was leaving for medical treatment?
Are you sure? He has been in the media meeting people. Or maybe they can do heart surgery in an afternoon these days. Just like a personality transplant. I know. I’ve just had one to reduce the level of my charm.
It’s the personality equivalent of breast reduction surgery. And the benefits are already obvious because I have lost all compunction about being a total arsehole. Haven’t you noticed?
I knew something wasn’t right. We want the total arsehole back please!
I have manboobs.
Biman’s Heart surgery in NZ..
Maybe he didn’t declare it because he didn’t go to NZ for heart surgery!
The creative ( but incorrect) speculation that goes on without any basis is not unique to Fiji but certainly a national preoccupation.
Just like how Aiyaz Khaiyum had sought political asylum in Australia on his family visit there in the weeks after the 2022 election. Strange that he then returned to Fiji. Wild speculation is tastier than the bland reality. When it has been way, way off target it has caused much damage in Fijian politics and society.
So that’s where Bee-man Prasad has been all this while. No wonder I didn’t hear anything about him for weeks. The other thing is that Bee-man Prasad can freely go out of Fiji for medical treatment but ASK can’t.
I only read your site and fiji leaks to understand what is happening in Fiji. The legal threats must be working in Fiji to shut down the media as we can see what is happening. Fiji tax payers really suffering. Tax holidays. Conflicts. And we know aid money goes to consultants. Most is boomerang.
The announcers on the radio aren’t saying anything against the government. If any callers criticize the government, then the announcers either become silent or end their call.
Not true! We have a free, independant media reporting on irrelavant matters without fear or self-censorship. They report the truth about nothing, and tell us nothing but the truth. The investigative journalism is beyond reproach.
Not.
If you check with the esteemed and highly respected media council, or spoke to any radio, TV, print, and online news sites-they will glady confirm as much. Not.
And the media has nothing to worry about losing govt oadvertising revenue streams. Not.
This Australian money is a return of the huge amount CSR owes the people of Fiji from a 145 years ago. It should be classified as compensation for the crimes against humanity that this Australian company caused in Fiji and robbed her resources so that the
poverty stricken white Australians could put food on their tables.
Are you serious? Whatever the individual cases of CSR overseers mistreating local workers, CSR created an industry in Fiji that underpinned the local economy for decades. Thousands of people got work that put food on the table.
In any event, CSR was a private company. So the Australian people and their government are not accountable for its conduct.
“And we know aid money goes to consultants. Most is boomerang” is B.S. as most aid money is by Rocket Remit and the like from overseas relatives trying to help the huge proportion of desperate Fijians struggling in poverty due to the evil doings of Fiji government.
Each day sees a new creative way to put the hands out too…..now an FNPF gift card locals can hassle tourists for. But I guess it is better than hustling for kava & beer money while the kids bellies are empty.
I see in today’s media releases from the Government that the PM hosted a lavish dinner for all Ministers, Assistant Ministers and their spouses to thank them for their service. The dinner being held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, one of the most expensive places in Suva!
This is a country that is seeking grants from countries like Australia to prop up their budget! They talk about fiscal responsibility and then conduct these actions. What a load of bullshit.
Perhaps the Australian media should make Australia’s taxpayers and tourists aware of what their money is being used for! I very much doubt the Fiji media will say a word!
Australia will increase their budget support AID by 40% for the next financial budget year. That will assure continuation of the GPH thanksgiving dinner..and it could be held twice a year. And the PM could also invite the opposition MPs as a thank you…there will be enough AUD$ for that extra expenditure.
The dinner was a double thank you – the higher salaries of the ministers kick in from Aug 1st.
Begging bowl tossed from Fiji to Australia, NZ, even to China. Latest is Japan, whose funds could possibly land again in Jiliva.
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/tabuya-discusses-collaboration-with-japan-in-key-areas/