In George Speight's shadow: Fiji general elections of 2001

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-101

  Lal, Brij V ^a  

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EID: 0344458652     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223340220139298     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. For the 1999 general elections, see Brij V. Lal (ed.), Fiji Before the Storni: elections and the politics of development (Canberra 2000).
2. My analysis of the coup is in '"Chiefs and thieves and other people besides": the making of George Speight's coup'. Journal of Pacific History, 35 (2000), 281-93.
3. In terms of votes, the Fiji Labour Party won 226,000 first preference votes, or 35% of the valid votes cast, SDL 169,000 votes, NFP 66,000 votes, Conservative Alliance 64,000, New Labour 29,000 votes.
4. Pacific Islands Report, 15 Aug. 2001.
5. Daily Post, 31 Aug. 2001.
6. Fiji Sun, 11 Aug. 2001.
7. Poseci Bune, Agriculture Minister in the People's Coalition government said 'Savua was the leader of the coup that failed to turn up'. fijilive, 24 Aug. 2000.
8. Fiji Times, editorial, 29 Aug. 2001.
9. Chief Justice to President of Fiji Law Society, 14 June 2000, Suva, National Archives of Fiji, High Court file CJ/WF/9.
10. Pacnews, 31 Aug. 2001.
11. See Padma Lal, 'Land, Lome and the Fiji sugar industry', in Brij V. Lal (ed.), Fiji Before the Storm (Canberra 2000), 111-34.
12. See Padma Lal, H. Applegate and M. Reddy, 'Land tenure dilemma in Fiji: can Fijian landowners and Indo-Fijian tenants have their cake and eat it too?'. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 16:2 (2001), 106-19.
13. For discussion of the coup, see my 'Chiefs and thieves and other people besides'.
14. Pacnews, 3 July 2001.
15. See his book Facade of Democracy (Suva 1990) for his nationalistic views.
16. fijilive, 1 / Sept. 2001. The report is titled 'Seeking Cooperation, Toleration and Understanding of our Diversity: A model of the People's Constitution - Constitution Commission/Panel Report'.
17. Fiji Interim Government Press Release, 15 Aug. 2000.
18. Fiji Times, 5 Dec. 2000.
19. From Justice Gates's decision which was published on the internet. See also George Williams, 'The case that stopped a coup? The rule of law and constitutionalism in Fiji', Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal June 2000), 73-93.
20. Paenews, 5 Mar'. 2001.
21. Sun, 30 May 2001.
22. People's Coalition government media release, 7 Mar. 2001. Dr Jonathan Fraenkel argues (private correspondence) that Chaudhry's willingness to jettison the Alternative Vote system was a 'shrewd move', Chaudhry 'knew full well that the preferences gained in 99 would not be forthcoming, but the FLP might get a plurality of the vote'.
23. See Sunday Times, 2 Sept. 2001.
24. Also Ro Alipate Mataitini, 'Forked tongues', a paper presented to the Fiji Workshop held at the Australian National University, 19 Nov. 2001.
25. Mataitini, 'Forked tongues'.
26. See her in Brij V. Lal and Michael Pretes (eds), Coup: reflections on the political crisis in Fiji (Canberra 2001).
27. Pacific Island Report, 13 Aug. 2001.
28. He was Peter Foster, jailed for 18 months by a British court in 1996 for his role in a fraudulent weight-loss scheme, who had fled to Australia while on parole. 39 Fiji 'Times, 7 Aug. 2001.
29. See my Another Way: the politics of constitutional reform in post-coup Fiji (Canberra 1998).
30. Zinck has since been sacked by his party but, at this writing, still continues to be a member of the Qarase cabinet.
31. The document is published as Parliamentary Paper 15/1999 (Suva 1999).