Open AccessPowerful Fiji doco shocks on urban poverty
Author(s) -
Shailendra Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v13i2.914
Subject(s) - project commissioning , poverty , publishing , state (computer science) , population , space (punctuation) , media studies , political science , sociology , law , demography , algorithm , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
"Fiji's squatter population was on the recieving end of some uncomplimentary comments during 2006. The then State Minister for Housing, Adi Asenaca Caucau, likend them to 'thieves because they lived illegally on someone else's land'. She urged police to make 'every effort to round up and remove' them. Reporters in Fiji are guaranteed a lively quote or two when Caucau opens her moutn. She one liked Indo-Fijians to weeds waking up too much space..."