Editor

Who Holds Power

Viliame Gavoka

Deputy Prime Minister. Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation. SODELPA's kingmaker in 2022. One million visitors. $2.54 billion. A profile of the coalition's most senior SODELPA figure.

Podcast

FPR Podcast Launch: On the Record & Pacific Dispatch

FPR launches two new audio formats: On the Record, our interview podcast, and Pacific Dispatch, our audio essay series. Episode 1 of each is out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

FPR Tools

Fiji Drug Intelligence Tracker

A documented chronology of drug seizures, trafficking operations, and institutional integrity events in Fiji and the Pacific, 2000 to present. Every entry is sourced. Unverified entries are flagged. The tracker covers 23 events across six categories, from Operation Logrunner's 357 kg heroin warehouse in 2000 to the January

Briefing

The Constitutional Monitor: Tracking How Fiji Is Actually Governed

Pacific democracy scholarship has leaned on constitutions, election results, and historical narrative. Very little tracks what institutions actually do over time. The Monitor is our attempt to close that gap.

Policy Watch

Policy Watch: The Vuda Incinerator Is Rejected

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said no. After a 1,500-page EIA, submissions and petitions, TNG Fiji's proposed 900,000-tonne waste-to-energy plant at Vuda has been rejected. TNG has until 3 July to appeal.

Policy Watch

Policy Watch: The Referendum Budget Without a Framework

The government has allocated funds for a referendum without a legal framework. The Finance Minister confirms the budget is in place. The Supervisor of Elections confirms she cannot act on it.

Who Holds Power

Ro Filipe Tuisawau

Minister for Public Works, Transport & Meteorological Services. Deputy Leader, People's Alliance. His portfolio received the largest single budget allocation in 2025–26 — $800 million. A profile of one of the coalition's most senior figures.

Briefing

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.

Briefing

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

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

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.

Australian Budget 2026-27

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.

Election Watch

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.

Parliamentary Watch

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.

Briefing

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.