Opening address to the Pacific Regional Media Training Workshop on "Women's Issues, Women's Voices," January 2005
“"Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji." (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).”
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