Election Watch: Fiji's Missing Municipal Elections
Fiji's municipal councils have been run by government appointees for 21 years. No elections. No accountability to residents. FPR examines what that costs, and what it would take to change it.
Such period as the Minister may consider necessary
FPR's legal analysis of the instruments governing Fiji's local government election timeline. Finding: no instrument gives Parliament, the FEO, or civil society any formal role. The Minister decides alone.
Fiji’s Constitutional Crossroads: Indigenous Identity, Democratic Governance, and the Pursuit of National Equilibrium
Fiji's constitutional challenge is not a choice between indigenous identity and democratic equality. The question is whether its institutions can protect both at once.
Across the Kala Pani, Against the Silence
Fiji's 147th Girmit commemoration smoothed indenture into a palatable migration story. The antidote lies in the work of Professor Brij Lal, a historian who insisted on truth before comfort, and paid for it with exile.
Election Watch: The September Question
Whether Fiji's first local government elections in twenty-one years will proceed in September may be the most consequential democratic question the coalition faces this year.
Parliamentary Watch: The Vuvale Union and the Parliament That Has not Seen It
Cabinet has approved the Vuvale Union. Parliament has not. Under section 51 of the 2013 Constitution, that is a constitutional problem.
Australia's Budget Is Kind Words and Contingency Reserves
Fiji's bilateral aid allocation is frozen at $64 million while Australia announces a new era in the relationship. The numbers tell a different story to the rhetoric.
Vuvale Development and the Caution of a Dependency Culture: Why Hard Work and Strategic Planning Matter More in the Pacific
Is Fiji building genuine self-reliance — or deepening dependency? Associate Professor Andrew Levula calls for strategic investment in human capital and a return to Pacific values of discipline and preparation.
Election Watch: Seven Weeks to the Earliest Possible Writ Day
Fiji's 2026 election could be called as early as August — or as late as February 2027. The government has not announced when. What it decides will reveal whether constitutional reform comes before or after the polls.
Introducing the FPR Constitutional Reference
An independent annotated reference to the 2013 Constitution — plain language explanations, FPR analysis, and CRC Watch notes. Free and publicly accessible.
Parliamentary Watch: Fiji Ratifies the Pacific Resilience Facility — Unanimously
Fiji's Parliament unanimously ratified the Pacific Resilience Facility on 29 April — the first significant cross-party vote of the current term. Three observations on what it means, including the $333 million gap between current pledges and the PRF's capitalisation target.
CRC Watch: Four months to Report — What the Commission Must Address
Fiji's Constitutional Review Commission has four months to deliver its final report. Three questions the Fiji Political Review will be tracking.
How Did We Get Here? The Vuda Incinerator and the Governance Questions Nobody Is Asking
A FJD $1.4 billion waste-to-energy facility proposed for sacred iTaukei land at Vuda Point reached formal EIA stage without secured land consent, without addressing its Australian rejection history, and without a Waigani Convention compliance analysis. The Fiji Political Review asks how.
The Real Waste Is Not Consultation. It is secrecy.
Why the 2026 CRC must demand the FELRC report — and why the government must release it.
Fiji's National Referendum Bill: what it says, what it restricts, and why it matters
A plain-language breakdown of Bill No. 46 of 2025 — the legislation that will govern how Fijians vote on constitutional change, and why civil society, lawyers and opposition parties say it threatens to make that process hollow.