Analysis
The Bar and the Exemption
Rabuka sits in the reconstituted Great Council of Chiefs as Prime Minister. He also leads the People's Alliance. Regulation 6(d) doesn't touch him.
Research notes, legal analysis, and institutional publications of the Fiji Political Review.
Analysis
Rabuka sits in the reconstituted Great Council of Chiefs as Prime Minister. He also leads the People's Alliance. Regulation 6(d) doesn't touch him.
Analysis
The GCC requires no formal education and no formal leadership record from the chiefs who sit on it. That is not an oversight. FPR examines what the law says and what the institution reveals by funding training it does not mandate.
Long Read
Australia's mandatory AI standards run 3,000 words without mentioning the Pacific. FPR names the structure behind that silence, digital subimperialism, and asks the only question that matters: can the Pacific do to data what it did to the sea?
Analysis
The Vuvale Union Treaty assessed against Fiji's Constitution. Five critical gaps. Parliamentary authority, judicial ouster, and defence sovereignty.
Research
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.