[5] The draft threatened jail terms of up to five years for journalists reporting "against the national interest or public order", and was condemned by international human rights organisations.

The United Nations Human Rights Council urged reform of the law to respect freedom of the press in Fiji's 2019 Universal Periodic Review.

[9] In the leadup to the 2022 Fijian general election both the National Federation Party and People's Alliance promised to review the Act.

[11] In January 2023 Minister for Communications Manoa Kamikamica announced a review of the Act,[12] and in February Attorney-General Siromi Turaga publicly apologised to journalists for the oppression they suffered under the Bainimarama regime.

[13] later that month, in his maiden speech, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka committed to end the era of "media oppression".