Comments on: Vanuatu’s political history could be changed forever http://pacificpolicy.org/2015/09/vanuatus-political-history-could-be-changed-forever/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Thinking for ourselves Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:59:18 -0700 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.13 By: Ian Fraser http://pacificpolicy.org/2015/09/vanuatus-political-history-could-be-changed-forever/#comment-12448 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:19:50 +0000 http://pacificpolicy.org/?p=8521#comment-12448 Well done. People seem to forget the ’89 thing; I think it was crucial, especially in light of later events in Solo and Fiji (well, previous events too, in their case!)

Interesting to think that George S may well be remembered for the probity in stepping down over the driving offence thing, not the –what? hubris? of dismissing a gov’t because he didn’t like it. But maybe he learned. My impression of him is not negative, despite that episode.

(I still haven’t decided whether the appeal judges were right to claim that he didn’t really appreciate what he was doing, and so should be acquitted without retrial. Probably they were. The VMF and generally the public service had already dealt with the situation, with a great deal of common sense…much better than their counterparts in the other Melanesian countries.)

You’re right. This will be big, whatever happens — keep up the commentary.

Ian Fraser
(Lecturer at USP Law, 1999-2009)

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