An NGO is calling for Fiji to change its flag, labelling it a reminder of negative colonial inheritances such as racism, divide and rule and cringing subservience. The CEO of the Pacific Dialogue, ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced in a New Year's Day address that his country will be getting a new flag. Harold Scruby, executive director of Ausflag - a group campaigning for a new ...

Australia will soon be one of just a handful of countries still sporting the Union Jack on its national flag. Fiji plans to erase the historical link to mark the 45th anniversary of independence. Fiji ...

Fiji's new national flag which will be designed this year will focus on uniting the island nation, the prime minister's office Thursday. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has revealed that the ...

Fiji will be removing the Union Jack from their national flag. The announcement was made by the country’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, who said it was ‘time to dispense with the colonial symbols ...

Cdre Bainimarama, who seized power in a military coup in 2006, told the nation in his New Year's Day address that the new constitution would be completed by the end of March. "The new, modern and ...

It’s a question that gets asked every Olympic games. Why do some countries, Fiji for one, have the Union Jack on their national flag? That’s because Fiji is one of four sovereign states, apart from ...

Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama has announced his nation will change its flag and dispense with its colonial symbols, making it more relevant to every Fijian. Mr Bainimarama made the ...

After a national competition a new design for the flag of Fiji will be unveiled in October Fiji is to remove the UK's union jack from its flag, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced. Mr ...

Suva: Fiji will remove the Union Jack from its flag and replace it with a design that symbolises the Pacific nation, not former colonial power Britain, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said on ...

Fiji will hold a national competition to redesign the nation’s flag in an effort to shed several symbols of its colonial past, the island nation’s Prime Minister said on Tuesday. The current flag ...

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