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List Of Members Of The Parliament Of Fiji (1966–1972)
The members of the Parliament of Fiji from 1966 until 1972 consisted of members of the House of Representatives elected between 26 September and 8 October 1966 (at which point it was the Legislative Council), and members appointed to the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... when it was created at independence in 1970. House of Representatives Senate References {{Fijian MPs by parliamentary term 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Fiji
The Parliament of the Republic of Fiji is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Fiji. It consists of 55 members elected every 4 years using open list proportional representation in one multi-member nationwide constituency. History Establishment The Fijian Parliament dates from 10 October 1970, when Fiji became independent from the United Kingdom. The Parliament replaced the former colonial legislative body, the Legislative Council, which had existed in various forms throughout the entire colonial period. A grandfather clause in the 1970 Constitution, which was adopted on independence, provided for the old Legislative Council to be renamed as the House of Representatives and remain in office, pending the first post-independence elections in 1972. Interruptions Since independence, Parliamentary rule has been interrupted three times. The first interruption was from 1987 through 1992, owing to two coups d'état in 1987 instigated by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cakobau
Ratu Sir George Kadavulevu Cakobau (6 November 1912 – 25 November 1989) was Governor-General of Fiji from 1973 to 1983. A great-grandson of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the King of Bau who had unified all the tribes of Fiji under his reign in the mid-1800s and subsequently ceded the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874, Ratu Sir George held the traditional titles of Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Levuka and thus was considered by many as Fiji's highest-ranking traditional chief. Ratu Cakobau was appointed Governor-General in 1973, becoming the first indigenous Fijian to serve as the representative of Elizabeth II, Queen of Fiji. Education and early career Cakobau was educated first at Fiji's Queen Victoria School, then at Newington College in Australia (1927–1932) and Wanganui Technical College in Wanganui, New Zealand. He became a member of the Great Council of Chiefs in 1938, where he remained until 1972. When he first joined the Council, it had the power to make laws for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Yee
Hon Wing William Yee (born 18 July 1928) was a Fijian engineer and politician. He was the first Chinese Fijian to be elected to the Legislative Council. Biography Yee was born in Zhongshan in China, before moving to Fiji as a child. He attended the Marist Brothers High School in Suva and St Bede's College in Canterbury. He then studied engineering at the University of Auckland, and was the first Fijian Chinese to earn a degree in the subject. Political career The 1966 general elections were the first in which Chinese Fijians were able to vote. Yee was an Alliance Party candidate in the three-seat General constituency of Suva, and was elected by a margin of 90 votes. In the 1972 elections he was re-elected in the Suva/Central General constituency of the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Stinson (Fijian Politician)
Charles Stinson (1800–1878) was a two-time member of the New Hampshire legislature. Life Stinson, a military captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ..., was from Goffstown, New Hampshire. He was the father of four children, Jane, Letitia, Susan, and Mary. Mary was the wife of Minneapolis industrialist Charles Alfred Pillsbury. Charles Pillsbury was influential in naming a street after the Stinson family in Stinson Boulevard, Minneapolis. References People from Goffstown, New Hampshire 1800 births Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1878 deaths 19th-century American politicians {{NewHampshire-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Falvey
Sir John Neil Falvey, K.B.E., Q.C. was a New Zealand-born lawyer, who served as Attorney General of Fiji from 1970 to 1977. Previously, he had served as legal adviser to the Fijian Affairs Board. Early political career Falvey served as a member of the Legislative Council of Fiji in the 1960s. In January 1963, Falvey signed what became known as the Wakaya letter, a document drawn up by the Great Council of Chiefs, which asserted the principle of ethnic Fijian paramountcy. This became the basic negotiating document of the Alliance Party (supported predominantly by ethnic Fijians and by Europeans) in the 1960s. Following the 1963 elections, the first-ever held by universal suffrage, Governor Sir Derek Jakeway introduced the member system as a first step towards responsible government, which followed four years later. Three members of the Legislative Council ( Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Dr A. D. Patel, and Falvey himself) were made members of the Executive Council of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Brockett Gibson
Harold Brockett Gibson (died 31 May 1975) was a New Zealand-born Fijian solicitor and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives in three spells between 1937 and 1972. He also represented Fiji in the lawn bowls competition at the 1950 British Empire Games. Biography Gibson was born in New Zealand and qualified a lawyer in 1919.Deaths of Islands People ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', July 1975, pp72–73 He moved to Fiji in 1926 and settled in , where he worked as a solicitor. He was also involved in business, and served as a director of Eastern Hotels and the Labasa Electricity Company. Gibson represented Fiji in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Barrett
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Sidiq Koya
Siddiq Moidin Koya (29 February 1924 – 25 April 1993) was a Fijian Indian politician, Statesman and Opposition leader. He succeeded to the leadership of the mostly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party (NFP) on the death of the party's founder, A. D. Patel, in October 1969, remaining in this post until 1977. He later served a second term as leader of the NFP, from 1984 to 1987. Koya is credited with his role in paving the way for Fijian independence from Britain in 1970. The National Federation Party had been opposing plans for independence without significant changes to the constitution. The NFP, in particular, wanted a legislature to be elected by universal suffrage from a common electoral roll of all voters – a demand rejected by the main ethnic Fijian politicians, who wanted a communal franchise with parliamentary seats allocated among the different ethnic groups, elected from ethnic electoral rolls. Sidiq Koya was more willing to compromise than his predecessor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Jai Narayan
Irene Jai Narayan (23 February 1932 – 29 July 2011) was an Indian-born teacher and politician, who had a significant influence on politics in Fiji. She came to Fiji in 1959 after marrying Jai Narayan, a well known school Principal in Suva, and began her career as a teacher. She taught in DAV Girls School and MGM High School in Suva before entering politics.Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry remembers Irene Jai Narayan , flp.org.fj; accessed 22 August 2016. Member of Legislative Council In 1966, she was handpicked by the then leader of the , |
1968 Fijian By-elections
By-elections for the nine Indo-Fijian seats in the Legislative Council were held in Fiji between 31 August and 7 September 1968.Fiji opposition will go to polls with plan for independence ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', August 1968, pp20–21 The seats had previously been held by the Federation Party, but their members had resigned in protest at the introduction of ministerial government and failure to reform the electoral system. Background In the 1966 elections, the multiracial[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ujagar Singh
Ujagar Singh was a Fiji Indian politician who was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1968 by-election from the Nasinu Indian Communal Constituency. References Fijian Sikhs National Federation Party politicians Indian members of the Legislative Council of Fiji Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{fiji-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Jati Singh
Ram Jati Singh, OBE (1908–1992) was a Fiji Indian politician and landlord who was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1966 general elections on the National Federation Party (NFP) ticket. He was re-elected in the 1968 by-election with an increased majority. He was the father of the Fijian politician Raman Pratap Singh, and the grandfather of Australian politician Lisa Singh Lisa Maria Singh (born 20 February 1972) is a former Australian politician. She was a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 to 2019. She had previously been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison from 2006 .... He had 9 sons and 3 daughters. Notes and references * Narendra P. Singh, ''With the Gods and the Sea'', Veran Press, NSW, Australia, 2003, 1908 births 1992 deaths Fijian Hindus National Federation Party politicians Indian members of the Legislative Council of Fiji Officers of the Order of the British Empire Politicians from Bua Province Fij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
