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# THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY SIDES WITH ALLEGED LAWBREAKERS UNDER A PRESIDENT WHO IS HOPELESSLY COMPROMISED

Posted on June 10, 2025 26 Comments

On September 5 last year, Wylie Clarke - the President of the Fiji Law Society - was in the room at FICAC when the Chief Registrar, Tomasi Bainivalu, conveyed a message from the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, to the embattled deputy Commissioner, Francis Puleiwai, that no court in Fiji would hear any charge that Puleiwai laid, having been just … [Read more...] about # THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY SIDES WITH ALLEGED LAWBREAKERS UNDER A PRESIDENT WHO IS HOPELESSLY COMPROMISED

# THE ” DISGRACEFUL WANNABE PRIME MINISTER”. PILLORIED BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON LEWIS, MANOA KAMIKAMICA FIGHTS BACK. BUT HE IS TOAST

Posted on June 10, 2025 42 Comments

Of the nine people Justice David Ashton Lewis says he has recommended should face serious charges in his Commission of Inquiry Report, only one does he out publicly, albeit indirectly, in his sensational 4CRB interview - the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Manoa Kamikamica. First, here's what he said in his interview in relation to … [Read more...] about # THE ” DISGRACEFUL WANNABE PRIME MINISTER”. PILLORIED BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON LEWIS, MANOA KAMIKAMICA FIGHTS BACK. BUT HE IS TOAST

# “CORRUPT”. THE DEVASTATING PRONOUNCEMENT BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS ON BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED WITH MEDIA COVERAGE)

Posted on June 10, 2025 14 Comments

Without even seeing the report of the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into Barbara Malimali's appointment as FICAC Commissioner, we now know from his astonishing radio interview what the judge has found - that the sacked head of the corruption watchdog is herself corrupt . And that she was specifically installed by an equally corrupt cabal to … [Read more...] about # “CORRUPT”. THE DEVASTATING PRONOUNCEMENT BY JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS ON BARBARA MALIMALI (UPDATED WITH MEDIA COVERAGE)

# NINE PEOPLE – INCLUDING CABINET MINISTERS – FACING CHARGES, REVEALS JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS IN BOMBSHELL FIRST INTERVIEW

Posted on June 9, 2025 34 Comments

An obscure Queensland radio station - 4CRB Tweed Heads - has conducted the first interview with David Ashton-Lewis - the Fiji Supreme Court judge who conducted the Commission of Inquiry into "Barbara-gate", the Malimali affair at FICAC, and it is a jaw-dropping sensation. Revealing that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, asked him to expose … [Read more...] about # NINE PEOPLE – INCLUDING CABINET MINISTERS – FACING CHARGES, REVEALS JUSTICE DAVID ASHTON-LEWIS IN BOMBSHELL FIRST INTERVIEW

# FACING ELECTORAL DESTRUCTION, THE BEST THE NFP CAN SAY IS THAT ‘NO-ONE IS BEING TAKEN TO THE CAMP”.

Posted on June 9, 2025 11 Comments

For two days running in the Fiji Times, we have had front page stories from the NFP's resident beaten dog, Pio Tikoduadua, making a desperate attempt to defend the indefensible - the party's betrayal of its traditional principles and of the people who gave it five seats in the current parliament to "keep the bastards honest". Make your own … [Read more...] about # FACING ELECTORAL DESTRUCTION, THE BEST THE NFP CAN SAY IS THAT ‘NO-ONE IS BEING TAKEN TO THE CAMP”.

# THE PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE MOUNTS A FULL BLOWN ASSAULT ON THE MINORITIES AND THEIR RIGHT TO EQUALITY

Posted on June 7, 2025 41 Comments

So the lawyer for the People's Alliance - the dominant party in the Coalition government led by Sitiveni Rabuka - tells the Supreme Court that as far as the PAP is concerned, the 1997 Constitution giving paramountcy* to the iTaukei is still in force and it doesn't recognise the 2013 Constitution that gives the minorities equal rights. Well at … [Read more...] about # THE PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE MOUNTS A FULL BLOWN ASSAULT ON THE MINORITIES AND THEIR RIGHT TO EQUALITY

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.