Foreign Affairs Minister condemns Australian media
Foreign Affairs Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola has hit out at distorted articles circulating in the Australian media which is deliberately aimed at hurting Fiji's tourism industry.
Ratu Inoke make the remarks in response to articles on Fiji being repeatedly published by the News Ltd owned newspapers which owns the Fiji Times, with one of the articles titled APerfect one day, brutal the next with a map of Fiji's premier tourism sites.
He also questioned the motive of the journalists who are writing the articles and news editors for publishing them, adding the article reflected happenings in Fiji in 2006 which is now history, and Fiji as a whole has moved on.
Ratu Inoke said while Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was quick to condemn Fiji on its Media Decree, he failed to recognize that News Limited journalists are doing the very thing which the government is trying to correct through its new Media Decree.
Story by: Ana Naisoro
Foreign Affairs Minister condemns Australian media
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