While international responses have focused on the serious impact for the Fiji Times group, the terms of the decree will also hit the country's two other dailies – the struggling Fiji Daily Post, which has 51 per cent Australian ownership and is also a critic…

Support in the Thai political system is a far more flexible notion than some realise.

Indeed and far, far more complex than the silly, simplistic notion that they are all coming south because Thaksin put a few baht in their savings accounts. How bloody condescending and racially arrogant on the…

Basically, 3410, you're right on the money. Isn't it just delightful that the IRB sets foreign policy?

There was a similar thing with the ICC's stance on Zimbabwe when President Mugabe's goon squads were forcing people off their lands and rearranging their faces.

Clark, well more Winston Peters really, did mandate that a Fijian football player with nebulous links to the government couldn’t visit here to play a qualifier for this year’s World Cup. This meant our “home” leg got played in Fiji.

The away leg got played in Fiji, the home leg…

Clark, well more Winston Peters really, did mandate that a Fijian football player with nebulous links to the government couldn’t visit here to play a qualifier for this year’s World Cup. This meant our “home” leg got played in Fiji.…

IIRC (and open to correction, of course), the IRB forced us to take them, on pain of loss of hosting.

Basically, 3410, you're right on the money. Isn't it just delightful that the IRB sets foreign policy?

There's more to sport than Rugby Sevens, and more to travel restrictions than…

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Does that mean Sacha
is a master baiter?
or a hooker?

..though RedAct would be a great name for a united Labour and ACT grouping – if such a misshapen beast could exist…

There's more to sport than Rugby Sevens, and more to travel restrictions than sport.

Totally agree. Not defending it, but it's relevant in consideration.

What, before the Dec 2006 coup we were talking about, you mean. Again, keep up the humour.

I don't see how the date correction invalidates Craig's point that both Labour and National led governments set the level of the sporting ban at "we'll ban until it actually has some meaning,…

What, before the Dec 2006 coup we were talking about, you mean. Again, keep up the humour.

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Thanks for the link to the smh report. I've been following the Post and Nation's reporting also.

I grew up in Thailand and the Philippines – and it's sad to see this happening again. As a child, you don't really consider these issues much – and I'm loathe to…

The MSM got it wrong?? Good grief what paranoid cliche-ridden planet is that writer from?

Pajamas Media. They quite frequently get things hilariously wrong. (And then sometimes act they deserve medals when they finally get around to a correction.) But they're saving us from the evil MSM, you know.

all those years between 2000 and 2008

What, before the Dec 2006 coup we were talking about, you mean. Again, keep up the humour.

This is supposed to a revelation??

It's a wee bit more…

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/firsthand-account-of-thai-red-shirt-violence-yes-msm-got-it-wrong/

Recent relaxation of travel restrictions is…

Well, the Key government has been softpedalling, letting Fiji play in the seven's, etc, so you can see why he might think that.

Um, I know Key is the Anti-Christ, but shall we at least acknowledge that the previous government wasn't exactly jamming the foot down on that pedal either?…

What's more incredible is that Baianimaramara is playing the game as though the rest of the world will capitulate on sanctions and other measures taken against Fiji.

Well, the Key government has been softpedalling, letting Fiji play in the seven's, etc, so you can see why he might think that.…

some justifiable venting about the lack of coverage in the New Zealand media over the weekend.

Too right. I managed to get a general laugh from some mates abroad last night when I told them NZ's headline for the day:

"Elderly woman's death not suspicious, say police".

We've just confirmed Tim Pankhurst, chair of the Commonwealth Press Union's media freedom commitee, for the show.

The former editor of the DomPost is now the chair of the Commonwealth Press Union's media freedom commitee?

Just as well I'm sitting on the right chair.

Any chance of your show being re-broadcast on a station that actually gets received in Fiji ? (I'm assuming Freeview 7 doesnt get there).

Or would that be too provocative?

An earlier one did get shown in slightly censored form, but I think YouTube will be the place they see…

Or would that be too provocative?

Russell, you've got a broken link, to Crosby Walsh's blog.

Just noticed it myself. Fixed now.

As for the actual topic at hand, it's very explodey-head-ish that News Ltd is the beacon of goodness and light in the whole situation. What's more incredible is that Baianimaramara is playing the game as though the rest of the…