Sri Lanka Diaspora News, Australia

WEERASINGHE – PETHUM – Loving son of Pearly Weerasinghe, brother of Shiyani and Sujeema, expired in Australia.
Funeral will take place on 17th December at 1.00 p.m. at St. Dominic Catholic Church in Australia.
Church Address – No. 408, Camp Road, Broadmeadows Vic 3047. A Mass will be offered at 5.00 p.m. on 17th Saturday
at Fatima Church, Maradana. Relations and friends please accept this intimation. Informed by – Violet Perera, Consy Perera and Dulcie Perera.

Chef killed in fiery Pascoe Vale car crash was street racing: police

• Dec 3 2016, 11:18 PM A man killed in a fiery crash in Melbourne’s north is the second person to die in less than a week as a result of suspected high-speed street racing.
• Police are investigating after a white Nissan left Pascoe Vale Road, struck a power pole and exploded into flames about 1am on Saturday. It is believed the driver lost control
• when the car clipped a blue Ford Focus. CCTV: Fatal street Read More …

The Age, December 13, 2016.

Retired journalist Don Abey has memoirs returned after theft

Emily Baker

Retired journalist Don Abey was devastated when three pads of notes and a USB were stolen from his car in Chisholm earlier this month.

The theft represented the loss of four years of meticulous work on his memoirs. Mr Abey dreaded digging out an early draft to edit and rewrite his book.

Retired journalist Don Abey with National Library of Australia reference librarian Sonja Barfoed. Mr Abey’s stolen memoirs have been returned. Photo: Sam Cooper
So imagine his delight when he spotted a plastic bag outside his garage on Monday containing his life story.

“It’s a mighty huge relief and joy,” Mr Abey said.

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The plastic bag stolen from a car in Canberra that contained a life’s work
“Imagine having four years of your work back and not having to write it again – that’s a huge relief.”

The 87-year-old’s book will document his colourful career as a journalist in Sri Lanka and Australia – “what I couldn’t report”, as he explained on Tuesday.

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Mr Abey will now make a few final tweaks, write a foreword and shop it around to different publishers with the aim to have it hit the shelves early in the new year.

“It could cause some sort of a stir in some circles,” Mr Abey said.

“We have to read what we know, what we knew and published and be damned, so that’s what I’m going to do now.”

The Canberra Times reported on Mr Abey’s loss on December 7. Since then, the news has travelled to relatives in Vancouver, Sri Lanka and Dubai, and caused something of a stir locally for Mr Abey.

“When the news did break I was in the Woden shopping centre and the amount of people who stopped me, I was amazed how far the news went,” Mr Abey said.

And Mr Abey said he has no hard feelings to whoever took his writing in the first place.

“I’m grateful to him [for returning it],” he said.

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

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Divers find body in Kimberley river believed to be missing man

Peter de Kruijff
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:39PM

Image: Missing man Oshan Janaka. Picture: Facebook
Police believe they have found the body of Sri Lankan man who went missing in the Ord River on Sunday.

Oshan Janaka Kumara Jayasooriya Mudiyanselag disappeared in the water at Carlton Gorge after jumping about 20m off a cliff.

Police divers travelled to the gorge at about 6.30am this morning and have found a body about 400m from where Mr Janaka went missing.

The body was not formally identified and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

Mr Janaka’s disappearance prompted an outpouring of tributes.

On Facebook, Allara Jay Miller said she could not believe what happened.

“Oshan was always such a happy and lovely guy,” she said.

“Always smiling. Such sad news. My heart goes out to his mates who were there and his family.”

Al Glasgow said Mr Janaka was one of the most genuine and funny gentlemen he “had the pleasure of calling a mate”.