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Constitutional Review Commission

Ten Months to Five Weeks: The Compressed Public in Fiji's Constitutional Review

Ten months in 1996. Five weeks in 2026. The CRC Report will be tabled on 22 September. The referendum could be held by mid-December. FPR examines what Fiji's own constitutional practice used to require.

Vanua

iTaukei Land Legislation and Vanua Consent: The Framework the Constitution Delegates

The 2013 Constitution protects iTaukei land ownership. It says nothing about who decides what happens on it. That work sits in the iTaukei Land Trust Act 1940 and the Land Use Decree 2010 — instruments that vest control in state bodies. The vanua owns. The Board decides.

Vanua

Ceremony as Constitution: The Tui Nayau and the Limits of Written Sovereignty

The Tui Nayau's authority is not delegated by the Fijian state. It predates the Fijian state. It has continued through every constitutional order the Fijian state has produced.

Constitution

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.