Robert Smith

Robert Smith is an international development adviser, specialising in financial sector and private sector development. He is a graduate of Oxford University, born and raised in the UK and currently living in Oxford. He lived in Suva, Fiji between 2022 and 2024. He has written two books on Fiji under the series title “Fiji; Under Assault”.

Robert's recent articles

Does Australia owe Fiji $75 billion reparations for historical blackbirding?

Does Australia owe Fiji $75 billion reparations for historical blackbirding?

In 2023, an American economics firm, Brattle, provided its reparation calculations to a symposium on Transatlantic Slavery Reparations chaired by international judge Patrick Robinson. Brattle calculated that the USA and slave-trading European countries owed the Caribbean and Americas US$130 trillion for wrongs done over a 400-year period.

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