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eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 4th edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – News, Photos and Events for the Sri Lankan Down-Under! Click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter for the Sri Lankan Down-Under! eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 4th edition eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! We will be sending a mid week eLanka EVENTS newsletter from this week Keep an eye out! First Ever Digital Pandol (Thorana) in Australia – Presented and erected to view at Lankarama Buddhist Temple in Sydney 5 meter by 4 meter structure – Presented and erected to view at Lankarama Buddhist Temple in Sydney by the Sri Lanka Consulate Office in Sydney – An initiative by the ...

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eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 2nd edition: Sri Lankans in Australia Please click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter for the Sri Lankan Down – Under! eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 2nd edition eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! We will be sending a mid week eLanka EVENTS newsletter from this week Keep an eye out! Shemara Wikramanayake: Australia’s $17mln female executive tops pay list – By Angela Priestley Macquarie’s Shemara Wikramanayake gives all women something to celebrate as she tops the list for executive pay. Women’s Agenda’s Angela Priestley tells us more.By Angela Priestley (financy – women’s money matters) There’s nothing like playing ‘spot the women’ when it comes to lists ranking the salaries of those in the mega-rich stratosphere. “NATIONAL ...

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eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 1st edition – Sri Lankans in Australia   Click here or on the eLanka image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsltter – Sri Lankan community in Australia eLanka Newsletter: May 2019 1st edition eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! Victorian MP Gary Mass seconding the motion of condolence to the people of Sri Lanka proposed by the Premier of Victoria, the Honurable Daniel Andrews “ONE LADY’S STORY” – By Des Kelly (and Inspiring story of a Muslim Lady By Shihara Farook) Once again, sent to me by my good friend and eLanka cartoonist Max Gerreyn, is the above lady’s story. I am fully aware that much has been written by many, on ...

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eLanka Newsletter: April 2019 4th edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – Stay Strong Sri Lanka – The whole world is praying with you! Click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter   eLanka Newsletter: April 2019 4th edition eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! We are deeply saddened and shocked following the horrific bombings in Sri Lanka on Resurrection Easter Sunday. Our thoughts and prayers are with all family members of those who have lost their lives and those in hospital with injuries. Stay Strong Sri lanka… The whole world is pryaing with you! MEMORIAL MASS FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE BOMB BLAST IN SRI LANKA at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sydney – ...

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eLanka Newsletter: April 2019 2nd edition: Sri Lankans in Australia -Wishing all our eLanka members a very Happy Sinhala & Tamil New Year! Click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter   Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! Wishing all our eLanka members a very Happy Sinhala & Tamil New Year! Traditional Sinhala & Tamil Avurudhu celebration in Sydney – held at the Showgrounds in Castle Hill, on 13th April 2019 (Filmed by Dr harold Gunatillake) “A PICTURE SPEAKS A 1000 WORDS” – By Des Kelly Sent to me, by a good friend, Errol Lynch, are a bunch of truly fascinating photographs of both famous and infamous people. Especially for the members & readers of eLanka, with the compliments of both Errol & myself, here they are, folks. If these “pictures” do not conjure up some precious memories, I really ...

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eLanka Newsletter: April 2019 1st edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – News, Photos, Events & Articles Please click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter eLanka Newsletter: April 2019 1st edition eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! (If you are based outside of Australia… enjoy the News from the Lankans Down Under!) eLanka Articles Yasodai Selvakumaran – Western Sydney teacher named among top 10 in the world Yasodai Selvakumaran, a humanities teacher at Rooty Hill High School, has been named in the top 10 teachers in the world, taking her a step closer to the $US1 million Global Teacher Prize…………. “OUR ALMA MATER” – BY Des Kelly As we quickly approach yet ...

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eLanka Newsletter: March 2019 5th edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – News, Photos, Events & Articles Click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka News Letter for the Sri Lankan Down Under   eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka! (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Dear eLanka, Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! (If you are based outside of Australia… enjoy the News from the Lankans Down Under!) eLanka Articles Prime Minister – Joint Media Release – BUSTING CONGESTION ACROSS SYDNEY AND THE CENTRAL COAST – Wednesday 27 March 2019 Motorists across Sydney and the Central Coast will be spending less time in traffic and more time doing what’s important to them after a $253.5 million congestion-busting funding boost…………. “Slaves built Galle Fort” – By ...

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eLanka Newsletter: March 2019 4th edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – News, Photos, Events & Articles Click here or on the image below to read this week’s eLanka Newsletter – eLanka Newsletter: March 2019 – 4th edition – eLanka, Lankan-Australian “News-King”: Always read eLanka!   (Circulation 20,000 plus members! – The Largest Sri Lankan News Circulation in Australia!) You can also view this email in your browser Dear eLanka, Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under! (If you are based outside of Australia… enjoy the News from the Lankans Down Under!) eLanka Articles Prime Minister – Joint Media Release – A plan for Australia’s future population A PLAN FOR AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE POPULATION The Morrison Government will tackle the impact of increasing population in congested cities and back smaller cities and regions looking for greater growth to secure their economic future and the key public services they rely on………………… ...

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eLanka Newsletter: March 2019 3rd edition: Sri Lankans in Australia – News, Photos, Events & Articles Please click here or on the image below to read eLanka Newsletter Welcome to eLanka News – for the Sri Lankan Down Under!  (If you are based outside of Australia… enjoy the News from the Lankans Down Under!) eLanka Articles Prime Minister – Media Release – Community Language Grants to build stronger communities THE HON SCOTT MORRISON MP Prime Minister THE HON DAVID COLEMAN MP Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 14 March 2019 COMMUNITY LANGUAGE GRANTS TO BUILD STRONGER COMMUNITIES More young Australians will learn another language with a funding boost set to connect people to new languages and cultures. The Morrison Government has committed $10 million through the Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program to support not-for-profit community language schools. .. ”IT’S FUN TO PUN” by the “Star ...

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