An Australian-based opponent of Fiji’s interim government wants to set up a floating radio station to broadcast uncensored news into the country. Usaia Waqatairewa, the Sydney-based president of the Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement, says the idea is to put an antenna on a ship which would be located in international waters, outside Fiji’s legal jurisdiction. The same concept was used by the so-called pirate radio stations which broadcast pop music to Britain, and New Zealand’s Radio Hauraki, in the 1960s. Mr Waqatairewa says people in Fiji need the news that the Bainimarama government isn’t letting them hear.
Interview with Usaia Waqatairewa at: http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=31124
Interview with Usaia Waqatairewa at: http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=31124
(Radio Australia/Radio Netherlands)