Alexander Turnbull Library

Fiji, Kadavu Island. Children playing on the beach and close up portraits

Fiji, Kadavu Island. Women and children collecting seafood with hand nets and baskets

Fiji, Kadavu Island. A game of handball on the beach with coconuts.Women collecting seafood with nets in the water of the lagoon

"We have various ways of dealing with undemocratic regimes - in Fiji we impose travel sanctions to stuff them up... In Afghanistan we send troops to prop them up... don't we sir?" 17 November 2009

"The next time NZ sends Kiwis overseas to help prop up a corrupt regime that denies many people their basic human rights... Could we just go on holiday to Fiji instead?" 4 September 2009

"The All Blacks play a test for the first time in years without Fijians on the wing... No one expels our diplomats and gets away with it, that and the fact that they were injured or banned..." 7 November 2009

As New Zealand and Fiji fume, future exports face doom & gloom. Diplomats are flaring. Farmers are fearing... the start of a new dairy boom! 29 December 2008.

"This is Controller Bainimarama...I won't tell the Laisenia Qarase crew again - PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR TAKEOFF." 29 November, 2006

Nadi Airport. 'Journalists' deportation lounge.' 14 April 2009

Evans, Malcolm, 1945- :Mugabe. Fiji. New Zealand Herald, 19 August 2002.

"Holiday in Fiji or Thailand? Nah, this year we decided to take a principled stand against corrupt military regimes." "Thank goodness for the coups! Stan feels a lot better about not being able to afford anything after he lost his job..." 16 April 2009

"Myanmar has been subject to military rule for the past 45 years..." 28 September, 2007