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# WADAN NARSEY. A SUNDAY MUST READ

Posted on June 2, 2024 26 Comments

Yesterday's Fiji Times was notable for the dramatic front page photo of Inia Seruiratu trying to flee local journalists and for the return of the once ubiquitous Richard Naidu after many months. But buried in the paper is another gem from Professor Wadan Narsey, who deserves an Order of Fiji and the nation's gratitude for his one-man mission over … [Read more...] about # WADAN NARSEY. A SUNDAY MUST READ

# A LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CLING TO OFFICE

Posted on June 1, 2024 13 Comments

There is nothing "confidential" in Fiji, least of all the confidential letter from the Elections Office to FijiFirst demanding that it change its constitution within a month to allow the parliamentary leader to participate in leadership committee meetings. Nothing has been said by the ousted 17 FijiFirst MPs about the FijiFirst Constitution not … [Read more...] about # A LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CLING TO OFFICE

# THE NEPOTISM MAKING THE COALITION CRISIS WORSE

Posted on June 1, 2024 22 Comments

Ever keen to pass the buck for any setback, the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, blames poor advice rather than telling a deliberate lie for the debacle in which he misled the nation by saying the parliamentary emoluments decision could be revisited when it has already been gazetted and become law. He doesn’t say where the bad advice came from. … [Read more...] about # THE NEPOTISM MAKING THE COALITION CRISIS WORSE

# WELL LOOK WHO’S BACK (UPDATED)

Posted on May 31, 2024 21 Comments

Richard "I have the means" Naidu says we need to keep the parliamentary emoluments scandal in perspective. For the first time in many months, the Chair of the government's Fiscal Review Committee deigns to give us his perspective in Saturday's Fiji Times. We've got "the rule of law now"? You mean the illegal appointments of a judge and … [Read more...] about # WELL LOOK WHO’S BACK (UPDATED)

# THE QUEEN OF TARTS. LIES AND GROSS HYPOCRISY

Posted on May 31, 2024 13 Comments

For the first time today, a Fijian mainstream media outlet - the Fiji Sun - makes reference to something that Grubsheet has long reported - the "drug-fuelled sex encounter" between Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne last August. (See previous posting) Despite a People's Alliance disciplinary committee … [Read more...] about # THE QUEEN OF TARTS. LIES AND GROSS HYPOCRISY

# “UNFIT TO LEAD”. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TURNS

Posted on May 31, 2024 15 Comments

Anyone reading today's editorial in the Fiji Sun might be excused for thinking that Grubsheet has taken over the paper. It pronounces Sitiveni Rabuka "no longer fit to run the nation" and lists a series of offences that has led the paper to the conclusion Grubsheet reached a long time ago. For the first time, there is reference to the … [Read more...] about # “UNFIT TO LEAD”. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TURNS

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Graham Davis
Grubsheet Feejee is the blogsite of Graham Davis, an award-winning journalist turned communications consultant who was the Fijian Government’s principal communications advisor for six years from 2012 to 2018 and continued to work on Fiji’s global climate and oceans campaign up until the end of the decade.

 

Fiji-born to missionary parents and a dual Fijian-Australian national, Graham spent four decades in the international media before returning to Fiji to work full time in 2012. He reported from many parts of the world for the BBC, ABC, SBS, the Nine and Seven Networks and Sky News and wrote for a range of newspapers and magazines in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

 

Graham launched Grubsheet Feejee in 2011 and suspended writing for it after the Fijian election of 2014, by which time he was working at the heart of government. But the website continued to attract hits as a background resource on events in Fiji in the transition back to parliamentary democracy.

 

Grubsheet relaunches in 2020 at one of the most critical times in Fijian history, with the nation reeling from the Covid-19 crisis and Frank Bainimarama’s government shouldering the twin burdens of incumbency and economic disintegration.

 

Grubsheet’s sole agenda is the national interest; the strengthening of Fiji’s ties with the democracies; upholding equal rights for all citizens; government that is genuinely transparent and free of corruption and nepotism; and upholding Fiji’s service to the world in climate and oceans advocacy and UN Peacekeeping.

 

Comments are welcome and you can contact me in the strictest confidence at grubsheetfeedback@gmail.com

 

(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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ABOUT GRUBSHEET

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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