'For our country, it is vitally important, as a factor for long-standing stability, that we always maintain a careful balance between the rights of individuals and communities, the special interests of indigenous people, including their right of ownership to their natural resources must also be protected.'

'This age of globalisation is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development. Today, I…

'WTO (the World Trade Organization) is trying to impose equality of trade in an unequal world, but for developing countries like Fiji there is no level playing…

'Labour will try to convince you that it is sympathetic to business. Don't believe such stories. The truth is that the party has a classic left-wing suspicion …

'As I have chosen Fiji, having been born and raised here, as my home, indigenous Fijian aspirations and in particular, the protection of their rights to determ…

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or mainta…