In 2011 Wikileaks remembers the John Winston Howard legacy regarding Fiji

The people of Fiji living under the dictatorship of Frank Bainimarama will be less than impressed with this one paragraph in a 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable - released by Wikileaks on 28th April 2011 - reminding everyone of then Australian Prime Minister John Howard's lack of spine on the morning of the day of that military coup in Fiji:
"¶2. (SBU) Prime Minister Howard told the press December 5 that Fijian Prime Minister Qarase had telephoned him that morning to request Australian military intervention to prevent a coup by Fijian military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama. Howard said he had declined the request because it was "not in Australia's national interest" to intervene, adding that he could not countenance Australian and Fijian troops fighting one another on the streets of Suva."
Apparently Howard was willing to charge into other countries when the request came from the U.S. Government, but not when he received an urgent call from a near-neighbour.
Mrs. Bucket will also be unimpressed to see that history is resurfacing from under her constant attempt to turn her hubbie into the greatest thing since sliced bread.
For those who are interested Discombobulated Bubu and Intelligentsiya are still blogging in resistance from Fiji.