Career
He was nicknamed The Human Skewer. He also coached the Fiji national team at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Tabua played for Australia sevens team in the 1993 Sevens World Cup, after which he played for Australia in fifteens in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
He has played 10 test for Australia.
In the 1999 Rugby World Cup he played for the Fiji team He was nicknamed the Human Skewer.
After retiring from international rugby, he came back to Fiji to help the Fiji team to prepare for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He was recently appointed as the head coach of Fiji"s HPU and helped the former Fiji coach Wayne Pivac with the Fiji team, but when Pivac resigned from Fiji rugby, Tabua was picked as the man to replace him and he was chosen as the new coach.
He was also the first Fijian to be appointed the national coach to the Rugby World Cup.
He comes at the tail end of a succession of expatriates including George Simpkin, Brad Johnstone, Greg Smith, Mac McCallion and Pivac who left in 2006. On 19 August 2009 Tabua was sacked by the Fiji Rugby Union citing off-field incidents during Fiji"s 2009 Institutional Review Board Pacific Nations Cup campaign.