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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Colleagues and Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All welcome to the upcoming one-day workshop:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2014-11-05/fiji-return-democracy-workshop"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Fiji:
Return to Democracy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">9am – 4pm, Wednesday 5 November<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre (130), ANU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Click <span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/fiji-return-to-democracy-workshop-tickets-13624508271"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">here</span></a></span> to register<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">View draft program <span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
<a href="http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/cap_events/attachments/2014/Oct/draft%20program%20291014.pdf"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">here</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Speakers include: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ms Tupou Draunidalo MP (National Federation Party)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Satish Chand (University of New South Wales)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Jon Fraenkel (Victoria University of Wellington)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">About the workshop:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> In September, Fiji held its first election in eight years, the first under the 2013 constitution, and the first using a common roll of electors
with proportional representation. In the new parliament of 50 seats, the coup leader of 2006, Frank Bainimarama, emerged triumphant. His FijiFirst party won 32 seats, with SODELPA, a successor party to earlier indigenous Fijian parties, winning 15 and the
National Federation Party three. The election of the new parliament marked the end of Fiji’s longest period under a military government since independence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fiji’s return to democracy raises key questions which this Workshop seeks to explore. How were the elections conducted? Were they free from fraud and manipulation? How did the new system of proportional representation
operate and how were the votes counted? What will the impact of the elections be on key institutions such as the Methodist Church? How will women fare under the new dispensation and what role did they play in the elections? What are the prospects for the Fiji
economy under an elected government? What will be the impact on Fiji’s relations with Australia, the Pacific Islands and the world beyond? What will the role of the military be in this militarised democracy? And, most important of all, how should we judge
the significance of these elections in the context of Fiji’s turbulent history since independence? Is the full reconstruction of Fijian democracy possible under the present government?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Speakers will address these issues and more. There will be ample opportunity for audience participation. And the event will end with a panel discussion and question-and-answer session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Enquiries:<span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
<a href="mailto:ssgm@anu.edu.au"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">ssgm@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Joel Nilon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of International, Political and Strategic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The Australian National University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Canberra ACT 0200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">+61 2 6125 8394<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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