July: "A Dear Mr Robie letter" item published in Islands Business Whispers column (p 13)

July 31: Robie wrote a letter of complaint to Islands Business.

August: "Private letter", a letter by the president of the Association of University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS), was published by IB stating that the VC's letter "misrepresents the situation over the website and views of many staff". (p 5) .

August 8 The publisher of Islands Business, Robert Keith-Reid, wrote to Robie offering to meet him.

August 24: Robie replied to the IB publisher saying that there had been no response to the straightforward complaint. A written response was necessary before considering discussion.

August 28: The publisher wrote to Robie saying that he was also rather busy, offering to publish a letter

October 19: Robie filed a formal complaint with the Fiji Media Council,

November 20: Media Council secretary Bob Pratt acknowledged receipt of the complaint.

December 5: Pratt advised Robie that he had received a response from Islands Business.

December 13: Robie replied to Pratt that there was no point publishing a letter from him five months after the published misrepresentations about the website. He said he was prepared to consider a meeting providing it was chaired by an independent Media Council chair and with an ethics lecturer present, Dr Mark Hayes.

January 4 Pratt wrote to Robie: "As we have not received a reply to our letter [of December 5] , we are assuming that you are satisfied with the reply. We are therefore considering the matter closed."

January Robie replied enclosing 13 December letter

January 31: Pratt wrote to Robie, saying the Chairman had studied the file and said: "It would be inappropriate to refer the matter to the Complaints Committee at this stage. A meeting should be held at a neutral venue between Mr Robie and Mr Scoullar, if both agree they could each bring an additional person. There should be a fourteen day time frame on the completion of these talks."

February 1: A letter from IB's Managing Director Godfrey Scoullar offering wine and lunch at the Fiji Club to "discuss" the complaint.

February 9: Robie wrote to Mr Pratt saying that he would be willing to meet IB under Media Council chairmanship: "If no satisfactory resolution is reached at this meeting, then the complaint should proceed to adjudication with alacrity."

February 21: A letter from Scoullar to Robie said that it had followed in "good faith" Media Council procedures, and Robie had "refused" to meet "refused" a letter for publication, and "refused" a lunch, and declaring the issue closed.

February 25; Mr Tarte wrote that the Council Chairman "was of the opinion that as the complaint involved professional members of the media industry it should have been possible to settle the dispute without having to refer it to the Complaint Committee".

March 11: Robie wrote to the Media Council to ask it to go ahead with the adjudication and attaching the legal waiver. He pointed out that in all the exchanges that IB had not replied to the actual complaint, as is expected in all other Media Council adjudications:

June 27 Adjudication delivered.