POMMIE PAUL MAC
High Commissioner Mac McLachlan, speaking at a Queens’ Birthday cocktail party on Thursday, said several important things:
The PM said he wanted to provide immediate relief to the farmers who are facing major difficulties due to some policies of the Native Land Trust Board and the Fiji Sugar Corporation. He says that process will include ensuring the country’s citizens are socially, economically and politically stable, and ready to go to the polls under a new voting system.Īctually the article was almost a direct lift from an earlier FijiVillage report that went on to add the PM’s remarks on his return from a tour of the Northern Division (Fiji’s second largest island Vanua Levu). However, to their credit the photo was accompanied by a reasonable report that had Bainimarama saying Fiji’s stability was his top priority he was focusing on building a better Fiji not on contesting elections he had not considered standing in the future elections, but wanted to hand a stable country over to a new government in 2014. I’ve been criticised for calling this sort of media coverage propaganda but what else can it be called? But it’s more likely they’ll conclude: That’s how it is in Fiji, a country ruled by a sour-faced military dictator, with soldiers in the streets terrorising the populace. This one picture, shown as it is over and over again, could persuade Australians that Bainimarama never changes his clothes. If the saying “one picture is worth a thousand words” is correct, the Australian media need not write a single word on the situation in Fiji.
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