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“DRIVEN TO DRINK” – by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ With everything that is happening around the World at the moment, most of what we hear about today, is nothing but bad news. As we grow older, the natural progression of everything around us is expected. However, The Australia that most of us, Burghers from Ceylon migrated to, was so very different, in so many ways, it is nearly impossible to imagine that, in barely half a century, education of the young,general living conditions, employment, medical benefits, nursing homes, palliative care, right down to undertakers’ yes, everything has changed & changed drastically, I must add.      This writer lived one hectic lifetime of 26 years in Ceylon, came to Melbourne (in the middle of a “White-Australia-Policy) only because I was a “sickly-white” colour after “having to leave” because of a “Sinhala-only” Policy, which meant that my skin had to ...