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# TIS THE SEASON TO STRIKE AND GRUBSHEET IS GOING OUT TOO

Posted on October 18, 2024 9 Comments

Powering down my laptop, packing my bag and heading off into the New South Wales “bush” for some R&R and to clear my head.

It isn’t strictly a strike because this worker doesn’t get paid. But when you run a one man operation, it’s important to occasionally walk away. And especially when the news is so unrelentingly depressing that you become repetitive and irritable.

My esteemed Marama is certainly threatening a strike to remove me if I don’t lighten up and talk about something other than Fijian politics.

Back soon to pick apart a certain minister’s finances. Hoo roo, as they say in these parts. A great weekend to all.

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  1. Happy mongoose says

    October 18, 2024 at 11:17 pm

    Enjoy your hiatus GD. No less than what you deserve. Stay well, stay safe-heard the salties are unfriendly.

    Ours is a maddening country, likely to go from bad to worse. Only question is how much further up the creek we gonna go.

    BTW, the outback is on my bucket list. Long may that bucket remain outta sight! lol

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  2. Catriona says

    October 19, 2024 at 6:38 am

    Have a great weekend in the bush GD but watch out for the snakes there.

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    • Anonymous says

      October 19, 2024 at 9:50 am

      The Big Snake (Rambo) is in Kiwiland this weekend. So the Aussie bush is safe …until he goes over there again to extract more $$$ from the vuvale partners!

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  3. Smell flowers not rectums says

    October 19, 2024 at 6:44 am

    Go Outbacking by all means as you no doubt deserve this unpaid holiday, but for God’s don’t get lost or anything, or else Fiji’s doomed, and I don’t say this lightly. Fiji can’t risk disharmony or acrimony in the House of Graham either, so do whatever’s needed to keep the Missus happy. The fresh air will also clear the mind after being holed up in Pal’s rectum for so long. Have a good one and we can’t wait to have you back, Graham.

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  4. Waltzing with Marama says

    October 19, 2024 at 7:11 am

    Enjoy watching the flames of the billy boiling as you contemplate all things not of Viti! Under the evening shelter of the coolabah tree.
    And laugh with the kookaburras in the bush. We need those lighter moments to keep sane.
    And Don’t touch that Keyboard-the Marama is right!

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  5. Morgan Tuimalealiifano says

    October 19, 2024 at 8:09 am

    Good move Graham.
    To quote the talented Barbados Marama Prime Minister, hopefully on her way to Apia via Nadi and reading all about it for CHOGM, we could all do with a ‘reset’. Ya-man!

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  6. Time To Kick Back says

    October 19, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Have a great time out bush and enjoy the break away from the chaos in Fiji being caused by none other than Rabuka and his loyal idiots. Have a cold one , cheers mate.

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  7. Vin says

    October 19, 2024 at 10:55 am

    Make sure you take some Banjo Paterson or Dorothea Mackellar poems with you. Put your feet up and enjoy. You deserve that!!!

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  8. Ash Kumar says

    October 19, 2024 at 11:08 am

    Just remember, even the bush has Wi-Fi now. So don’t expect to completely escape the keyboard for too long Graham

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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.

 

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