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# NOTE TO READERS: NO-ONE WITHOUT AN EMAIL ADDRESS GETS TO COMMENT FROM NOW ON. NO EMAIL AND I SEND IT STRAIGHT TO THE “TRASH” (UPDATED)

Posted on September 2, 2026 15 Comments

As the election approaches, you can remain anonymous as you have always been able to do in the Grubsheet "comments" but the requirement to submit an email address (which isn't published) will be strictly enforced. There will be one warning about this - this one. After that, the trash bin awaits anyone who thinks they can circumvent the rules, … [Read more...] about # NOTE TO READERS: NO-ONE WITHOUT AN EMAIL ADDRESS GETS TO COMMENT FROM NOW ON. NO EMAIL AND I SEND IT STRAIGHT TO THE “TRASH” (UPDATED)

# WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION LEADER AS DEBATE RAGES OVER THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE? MISSING IN ACTION IN PALAU

Posted on September 2, 2026 16 Comments

Inia Seruiratu gets a $200,000 salary and a house to be "Opposition Leader" in the parliament. But the former FijiFirst minister and now leader of People First is doing precious little opposing as the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, refuses to rule out abolishing the secular state - one of the centrepieces of the Bainimarama era. Why the … [Read more...] about # WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION LEADER AS DEBATE RAGES OVER THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE? MISSING IN ACTION IN PALAU

# AMID ALARM ABOUT THE MOOTED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE, WE NEED URGENT CLARITY ABOUT CHANGES TO THE SUPREME LAW (UPDATED)

Posted on September 1, 2026 13 Comments

What's in the report by the Constitutional Review Commission that was handed to the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, yesterday and is now going to cabinet and the parliament for consideration? The Prime Minister knows because here's a government-supplied photo of him reading it. Yet the rest of us aren't allowed to know and into that vacuum … [Read more...] about # AMID ALARM ABOUT THE MOOTED ABOLITION OF THE SECULAR STATE, WE NEED URGENT CLARITY ABOUT CHANGES TO THE SUPREME LAW (UPDATED)

# WITH THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SECULAR STATE, IT IS TIME FOR HINDUS, MUSLIMS AND OTHERS TO JOIN FORCES AND FIGHT BACK

Posted on August 31, 2026 10 Comments

The shocking recommendation by the Constitutional Review Commission that the secular state be removed from the supreme law is a direct attack on religious freedom and especially the major religions practiced by the minorities . The CRC tries to pretend that religious freedom will be upheld. Yet if that were genuinely true, the secular state … [Read more...] about # WITH THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SECULAR STATE, IT IS TIME FOR HINDUS, MUSLIMS AND OTHERS TO JOIN FORCES AND FIGHT BACK

# CAKAUDROVE SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH. THE PM DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS CHIEF’S OUTRAGEOUS EXTRAVAGANCE (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)

Posted on August 29, 2026 34 Comments

What cost Frank Bainimarama the 2022 election was his tin ear - his refusal, along with his sidekick Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, to listen to public discontent about their conduct and press on as if public opinion didn't matter. And precisely the same thing is happening with Sitiveni Rabuka as the coming election approaches. There has been uproar … [Read more...] about # CAKAUDROVE SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH. THE PM DOUBLES DOWN ON HIS CHIEF’S OUTRAGEOUS EXTRAVAGANCE (UPDATED SUNDAY AM)

# STUNG BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S APPEAL AGAINST THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT, THE ANTI COI FORCES GO ON THE ATTACK

Posted on August 28, 2026 10 Comments

Don't be conned by the protestations of loyalty to the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, by Goldfinger - his recently-acquitted deputy, Manoa Kamikiamica, who is again behaving like prime minister in waiting, including at his latest appearance at the Australia Fiji Business Council. Because behind the scenes, Mr Sweet is part of a white-anting … [Read more...] about # STUNG BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S APPEAL AGAINST THE TUIQEREQERE JUDGMENT, THE ANTI COI FORCES GO ON THE ATTACK

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)

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.