Photos from the Luncheon held at COCO Gabba with the Sri Lankan Community Leaders during Her Excellency the Sri Lankan High Commissioner and her First Secretary’s visit to Brisbane on the 6th and 7th of June 2024 Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox! ...
Photo of the ANZAC Day Ceremony in Brisbane With the Sri Lankan Veterans at Brookfield Show Grounds in Brisbane The above is a photo with the Sri Lankan Veterans at Brookfield Show Grounds in Brisbane with General Shantha Kottegoda, Admiral Travis Sinniah who was the Key Note Speaker at the event. President of the RSL Kenmore Branch Lt. Col. Rick Maher, Anton Swan OAM. Dr Jay Weerawardena President of the Federation of the Sri Lanka Organizations in Qld. and Also Jayantha Pathikirikorale. These are some of the Ex-Serviceman in the photo. Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox! ...
Saints’ rivalry forged strong bonds of friendship – By Lawrence Heyn in Brisbane, Australia Source : sundaytimes History-making Josephian and Peterite teams: (Back row, from left): Kitto Fernandopulle, Angelo Wickremaratne, Charinde Perera, Romello Anandappa, Darrel Wijetunge, Aruna Perera, Carlton Bernadus, Reynold Anandappa, Anura Eliyathamby, Narain Melvani, Noel Warnakula, Lal Perera, Nilkamal Perera, Kevin Hingert, and Suraj Abeysekera (Middle row, from left): Michael Chanmugam (SPC coach), Vernon Tissera (umpire), Priyalal de Silva, Rohan Wijesinghe, Ranjan Perera, Shamilal de S. Wijeratne, S.C. Rohan Fernando, Susilough de S. Wijeratne, Ajit de Alwis, Ranjit Senaratne, Wayne Jansz, Sunanda Jayasekera, Niranjan Weerasinghe, James Perera (SJC coach) and S. Ponnadurai (umpire) (Seated, from left): Angelo Rayer (SJC master in-charge), Rev. Fr. Lucian dep (SJC Prefect of Games), Trevor Croner, Rev. Fr. Quintus Fernando (SJC Rector), Dushan Soza (SJC captain), Bernard Wijetunge (SPC captain), Rev. Fr. Claver Perera (SPC Rector), Frank Hubert, Rev. Fr. Chrys Abeyratne (SPC Prefect ...
A Historic Milestone: Cricket Returns to the Olympics after 128 Years with Australia’s Promising Prospects – By Cricket Australia Source : Cricket Australia Linkedin For the first time in 128 years, Australia’s cricketers will get the chance to compete for gold at the Olympics 🥇🙌 Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley: “This is a game-changer for our sport that is already among the fastest growing in the world. “We look forward to working with the Australian Olympic Committee in the lead-up to the Los Angeles Games and are hopeful this will be the start of a long-standing relationship between cricket and the Olympics, including for Brisbane 2032″ ...
A Tribute to Swarna Mallawarachchi Source : Dæhæna – September 2023 Starting her acting career at the tender age of 17, starring in a major role in Siri Gunasinghe’s Sath Samudura, the lady known as the “Golden Star of Sinhala Cinerma” has won 28 awards in her career spanning over 50 years. According to sources, publishing a school magazine with her friend, she wanted to be a journalist. Seeing an advertisement for roles in Sath Samudura, she wanted to meet the author, but ended with a leading role as “Soma”. Since then she has acted in over 60+ films/ The evening comprising felicitation and a question and answer session with the actress, eneded with a dinner where the fans could get photographs with her. The main feature of course was the screening of the 1983 movie “Dadayama” which is considered one of her hallmark roles as “Ranmali”. The well attended function ...
Travel Diary – Trip along the Great Ocean Drive, Regional Victoria, and Toowoomba – By Ravihansa Rajapakse & Chinthika Ranasinghe Source : Qld Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – January 2023 We were living in Melbourne at the time when we had to move to Brisbane for Chinthika’s studies and my work. The Christmas holidays were looming large, and so we took the opportunity to do a ‘mega’ 12-day road trip from Melbourne to Brisbane. The plan was to first travel West along the Great Ocean Road before turning North towards Queensland. We thought of making stops at Ballarat, Bendigo, Canberra, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Newcastle, and Byron Bay, before reaching Brisbane. We started the trip early morning on the 17th of December and our first stop was Werribee Zoo. Although not overly enthusiastic about zoos, we decided to pay a visit to this zoo as it follows a different structure of ...
KANCHANAMALA (KANCHI) RANASINGHE-MULTIFACETED GENIUS HIGHLY QUALIFIED MEDICAL DOCTOR ,LECTURER,VOCALIST,CHARITY WORKER, DRAMTIST IN SINHABAHU AT PEAK OF CELEBRITY – BY SUNIL THENABADU Dr Kanchanamala Ranasinghe known popularly as Kanchi among her family,friends, patients and admirers is a multifaceted authoritarian charisma has at her relatively young age navigated over many traits as a consultant clinical doctor for which she has the highest post graduate certification, Kanchi with her multifaceted competences, traits, and talents retain a diverse temperament with expertise in multiple fields. Kanchi has immense hereditary affiliations inherited from her parents who were both scholars and dramatists. The duo Malini and Terrence Ranasinghe then residents of Peradeniya both have honorary degrees in Biology and Arts from the University of Peradeniya .Mother Malini had been selected to the medical faculty in Colombo, as then there had been only this solitary medical faculty in Sri Lanka , her parents had objected to accepting this offer as she had to ...
Sharon’s 30 years living with MPN Sharon MacIntyre was young when she diagnosed with MPN at the age of 18 but she believes her first symptoms started many years earlier, when she was at primary school. Source : leukaemia “It’s been a long road and it’s been very bumpy,” said Sharon, now 48, who lives on Brisbane’s northside and is the mother of three healthy children. “I’ve had various specialists and various trials and tried platelet apheresis and all sorts of things.” Early records show her platelet counts were elevated, at around 700 as a 10- to 12-year-old, although nothing like the 1900 that they were at the time of her diagnosis. Her red blood cell count was also high and, as a pre-teen, she had “heaps of headaches and nosebleeds” and was “constantly at the hospital for being underweight”. “My dad’s answer back then was to give me children’s chewable disprin which ...
Sri Lanka Day 2022 – By Jay Weerawardena Source : Dæhæna – Monthly e-Newsletter October 2022 The Sri Lanka Day 2022 mega food and multi-cultural festival organised by the Federation of Sri Lankan Organisations in Queensland (FSOQ) with its member organisations was successfully held for the second consecutive year on Sunday, 11 September 2022 at Rocks Riverside Park. Like last year, the event was aimed at highlighting and celebrating the cultural heritage and the culinary tastes of Sri Lanka with the wider multi-cultural community in Brisbane. There were ten food stalls that were dedicated to Sri Lankan food and the cultural programme featured dances, songs, and a cultural fashion show from ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Invited artists from Indian (traditional and Bollywood), Kampuchean, Portuguese added colour and variety to the multicultural stage. The overall event theme was to support Sri Lanka in challenging times highlighting ‘urgent medical supplies for Sri ...
Sharon’s 30 years living with MPN Sharon MacIntyre was young when she diagnosed with MPN at the age of 18 but she believes her first symptoms started many years earlier, when she was at primary school. Source : leukaemia “It’s been a long road and it’s been very bumpy,” said Sharon, now 48, who lives on Brisbane’s northside and is the mother of three healthy children. “I’ve had various specialists and various trials and tried platelet apheresis and all sorts of things.” Early records show her platelet counts were elevated, at around 700 as a 10- to 12-year-old, although nothing like the 1900 that they were at the time of her diagnosis. Her red blood cell count was also high and, as a pre-teen, she had “heaps of headaches and nosebleeds” and was “constantly at the hospital for being underweight”. “My dad’s answer back then was to give me children’s chewable disprin which ...
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