Bernadette Ganilau

Rose Lavenia Bernadette Rounds Ganilau, born July 5, 1951, as Lavenia Bernadette Rounds, is a Fijian writer, broadcaster,[1] and politician, who served as Minister for Labour, Minister for Tourism, Industrial Relations, Productivity and Environment in the interim Cabinet of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, having been appointed on 9 January 2007.

[2] In previous political roles, she served in 2000 and 2001 in the Interim Government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as Assistant Minister for Social Welfare, and from June to December 2006, she was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, until the military coup of 5 December.

[3] She spent much of mid-to-late 2005 campaigning against the government's controversial Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill,[4] which proposes to establish a Commission with the power to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the Fiji coup of 2000.

She resigned from the United People's Party in 2007 after being ousted as Deputy Opposition leader and accepting an office in the interim government.

In January 2008, Ganilau was "dropped" from the government position of Tourism Minister during a Cabinet reshuffle.