Talk:George Speight

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David, I read the word 'cronies' and changed it to the more neutral 'associates'. After some hindsight I realised that perhaps you were para-phrasing the actual newspaper article so I changed it back to 'cronies'. Just thought I'd let you know what I did.

Does anyone know what school he went to?

I was slightly confused when I read the section on a change of heart. Is a change of heart or a re-change of heart? Speight holds two degrees from Seventh-day Adventist universities. At some stage he must have already had Christian leanings.-Fermion 03:33, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fijian culture is such that church attendance in many areas is virtually compulsory, whether one personally believes in it or not. David Cannon 10:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't he guaranteed he wouldn't be arrested if they surrendered and ended the coup when they eventually did? How's that hold up legally? I don't really recall the events of this coup, I remember seeing it on the news .. but not the intricate details. 211.30.71.59 11:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, a promise was given that he wouldn't be arrested. The army later arrested him anyway, saying that he had violated the conditions of his immunity. David Cannon 11:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I was fed all this propaganda about him in Australia; he was just looking out for his own people though. I agree, Fiji should be for Fijians, get all those ethnic businessmen outta there. —The preceding

) 10:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC). Yes, racism is so the way to go. The Ethnic Fijians aren't exactly an oppressed minority, you know? Its not the same as here in oz where we treat our native peoples as third-world citizens, they control the vast majority of their country, their democratic system revolves around tribal chiefs for god's sake. Speight followed a racist dogma, and he is no more wonderful than Pauline Hanson or Louis Farakhan WookMuff 06:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fiji is now over 70% ethnic Indian. A small pacific island is slowly losing it's indigenous people to a race and ethnicity that, for the most part, does not assimilate, has over one billion people outside its country, as professed by GOPIO (Global Organisation of People with Indian Origin). If this is not genocide then I don't know what is, someone should be charged. 60.240.247.253 22:50, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The claim of 70% is a MONSTROUS LIE. By the tone of your chat you have impure motives. The current figure is LESS THAN 38%. It has NEVER been as high as 70%. From memory the highest ever, was about 53% Indo-Fijian. (around the late 1960s)again from memory!. For the record I am neither Indo or Fijian.

As to George Speight's school, he was at Suva Grammar School in the late 1960s. Oh and he was a bully and a thug with a chip on his shoulder even then.

George Spieght couldn't give a rats .. about the Fijian people, he left Queensland with the corporate Regulators sniffing at his heels because of his completely self-serving dodgy dealings. When he got involved in the Coup, he was been investigated for criminal activity in business dealings and his conduct as Chairman of 2 Fiji Nation Timber bodies was being examined from several perspectives. Very conveniently (for him) the entire headquarters office complex burned down (with all the accounts, minutes, correspondence etc). It could fairly be said that George Speight is Fiji's version of Christoper Skase, but wasn't smart enough to stash the cash and shoot through to Majorca. So he "got" the government before they could get him.

The issue of race (ie: looking after the interests of indigenous Fijians) was used as a front for their real motives and as a way of stirring up support and assistance from the more extreme groups, by both the Speight coup AND the Rabuka coups in 1987. Anybody who thinks otherwise does not know Fiji. Bigredtoe 08:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bigredtoe, Indo-Fijians now make up over 70% of the population. 220.237.85.167 (talk) 12:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So I decided to check back on the old stories of the 2000 coup in Fiji and it seems that Speight, the 2000 coup and the army mutinies had their entire articles wiped for some reason, who exactly decided it was good idea to erase something as historically important as this and never re-write anything?

~~A Fijian living in France~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.193.76.166 (talk) 15:25, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The material that was removed had no source citations. The BLP policy requires source citations for all quotes and contentious material about living persons. Feel free to add to any of these articles, but be sure to include proper sources. GA-RT-22 (talk) 05:11, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources on this aren't exactly hard to find, and it would be more productive to source the articles rather than delete material on a significant era in Fijian history.--IdiotSavant (talk) 11:01, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please go right ahead and re-add the material with proper sourcing. GA-RT-22 (talk) 16:41, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gotitbro: I can't find "1957", "Samisoni Tikoinasau", or "Henry Speight" in either of the two sources. Can you clarify which source you're seeing these in and provide a quote and some context? GA-RT-22 (talk) 16:11, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@GA-RT-22: They were covering his ethnic background et al. I have added other sources covering birth, family etc. Thanks. Gotitbro (talk) 17:18, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please add the sources at the same time you add the material, to avoid confusion. GA-RT-22 (talk) 20:01, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]