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I am a freelance writer currently residing in the Pacific.
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December 24th, 2008
Fiji and New Zealand engage in ‘Diplomatic Suicide'
Tensions between Fiji and New Zealand boiled over Tuesday when both countries kicked out each other’s chief diplomats. Bloggers and commenters in both New Zealand and Fiji have largely found fault with their governments’ actions.
December 17th, 2008
Fiji and New Zealand Bloggers Debate Diplomatic Row
Bloggers from Fiji and New Zealand are discussing an ongoing diplomatic row between their governments that intensified when New Zealand refused to grant visas to three family members of senior officials in Fiji's government who came to power in a coup in December 2006.
December 16th, 2008
Activist turned informant creates uproar in New Zealand
New Zealand’s blogosphere is a flutter with the possibility that a left-wing activist has been outed as a police informer. The informer was paid $600 a week (plus expenses) for monitoring groups like Greenpeace, Save Happy Valley, Auckland Animal Action, GE-Free New Zealand and Peace Action Wellington.
December 15th, 2008
Australia: Reflections from ‘No Clean Feed' rallies
Australians in seven cities demonstrated on Saturday against the Rudd government’s plan to require Internet Service Providers to block access to websites publishing child pornography and other unsuitable and illegal content.
December 13th, 2008
Fiji: Democracies' double standards
A few members of Fiji’s blogosphere have begun to lash out at what they see as double standards from the international organizations and countries preaching democracy to the Pacific Island nation that has been ruled by military leaders for the past two years.
December 11th, 2008
Australia rallies to “Stop the Clean Feed”
The Australian blogosphere has largely come together to protest a government internet filtering scheme that will require Internet Service Providers to offer a “Clean-Feed” service to all homes, schools and public access points to the internet.
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