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...Blue Lagoon - is one of Fiji's most exclusive resorts, where guests can rent luxury villas for more than $US2,000 a night. The invitation to holiday on the island came after Bainimarama found himself seated on a September 2005 Sydney to Fiji flight next to Andrew Fairley, an Australian lawyer and board member of Turtle Island. Fairley, a Deakin University Council member and board member of Ecotourism Australia, had been heavily involved with the Fiji Hotels Association in organising a challenge to the bill, and had recently obtained two legal opinions that he says showed the bill was unconstitutional...
SYDNEY, Australia—If you had to pick, shenanigans and shambles are pretty good words to describe the Australian media of late. Over the past year, the government, corporations, and individual journalists have all fought hard to degrade the reporting business in this country, some making a public spectacle of themselves, while others negotiated in cabinets and board rooms to quietly erode the diversity of the nation’s media coverage...
...Humorous as the incident might have been, it’s sadly characteristic of the crisis Australian journalism is fast entering. Mayne, Milne, and the Murdoch press are in one incestuous relationship, but now, thanks to the government’s new media laws, the world of Australian journalism looks like becoming even more inbred...
...Coonan’s bill essentially effects three large changes. It will relax cross-media and foreign ownership regulations, lessen the powers of the independent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in favor of a government-controlled body, and increase the potential for new digital services to be delivered to the market...
...Ironically, it was Murdoch’s own newspaper, The Australian, which last week reported the incredible frenzy of cross-media share trading that has occurred in preparation for next year when the laws will take effect. And, surprise, surprise, they’re all buying strategic stakes in each other, and there’s no sign of any new media...