The first picture of the mother who was among those stabbed and killed by the attacker in Sydney yesterday after he also stabbed her nine month old baby daughter. Ashlee Good - a 38 year old osteopath - died in hospital of multiple wounds and her baby has been undergoing surgery and is in a serious condition. Six people are now confirmed dead … [Read more...] about # DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
# WHERE’S BEN? SIDELINED AND REPUTATION SHREDDED.
There's been nothing from the Australian side but buried on page three of today's Fiji Sun is news that Colonel Ben Naliva is no longer deputy commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade. There's been no official announcement yet but the clear implication is that the Australian Defence Force now accepts that Colonel Naliva - as his accusers … [Read more...] about # WHERE’S BEN? SIDELINED AND REPUTATION SHREDDED.
# HANDS UP IF YOU’RE SICK OF BEING TREATED LIKE AN IDIOT.
The Prime Minister says you can "seek redress" if you think you've missed out on a government job or been removed on the grounds of ethnicity. And how do you do that, Fiji? By going to the Prime Minister himself to lodge a complaint. Yes, he will decide if you've been given the vudi, not some independent body. So what kind of redress is … [Read more...] about # HANDS UP IF YOU’RE SICK OF BEING TREATED LIKE AN IDIOT.
# HIS LORDSHIP MUST STAND ASIDE
Salesi Temo is cantankerous, erratic, capricious, imperious, self-important, sexist, patriarchal and behaves like a schoolyard bully. He shares these characteristics with a tiny minority of crusty judges in other jurisdictions of the common law that Fiji also inherited from the British. But he is unique in one particular aspect. The Acting Chief … [Read more...] about # HIS LORDSHIP MUST STAND ASIDE
# THE WORM TURNS
The chronically pro-Coalition Fiji Times has suddenly changed tack by putting the FijiFirst Opposition Leader, Inia Seruiratu, on its front page calling on the Prime Minister to stand down those of his ministers who are currently being investigated by FICAC or the police. It is probably just an aberration as even Fred Wesley and his troops … [Read more...] about # THE WORM TURNS
# SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM’S FAVOUR
$300-million Fijian ($134-million US) is a pittance for the Chinese Communist Party to buy the Prime Minister's favour by improving the road system on his home island of Vanua Levu and, in turn, for Sitiveni Rabuka to curry favour with his own people. It also buys the Prime Minister's silence on the big issues of Chinese expansionism in the … [Read more...] about # SMALL CHANGE TO BUY THE PM’S FAVOUR