http://www.prmatters.co.nz fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/is-democracy-as-we-know-it-a-realistic-expectation-for-fiji/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/is-democracy-as-we-know-it-a-realistic-expectation-for-fiji/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:07:12 +0000 Jane Dodd http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=94 In a recent interview with Paul Holmes, Helen Clark posed the question whether it was always necessarily appropriate to expect to be able to drop a developed country’s model on a developing one?* While Fiji has long had a tradition of democracy, are the regular coups a sign that the democratic model needs some adaptation? [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/is-democracy-as-we-know-it-a-realistic-expectation-for-fiji/feed/ 3 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/stir-crazy-in-fiji-get-a-life/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/stir-crazy-in-fiji-get-a-life/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:10:21 +0000 Paul http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=75 It has taken a while, but Kiwis have finally been outdone by the Aussies in terms of government dependency.  I was horrified to read in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald that stranded Australians were seriously looking to their government to get them out of Fiji.  This follows the complaints by some prospective tourists that their government’s [...]

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