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eLanka Newsletter – 31st May 2023 – 9th Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter The Eighty Club Country and Western night – by Trevine Rodrigo Photos of the Wesley OBU Ball Sydney 2023 – The Legacy Band & Karmis – Photos thanks to MC Duke Sydney Thomian Ball 2023 with Misty – photos thanks to MC Duke & Friends of eLanka Health & Views – May 3rd 2023 – By Dr harold Gunatillake Farewell Function for Anton Swan OAM JP(Qual) Hon. Consul for Sri Lanka in Queensland, Australia – Organized by the Federation of Sri Lanka Associations in Queensland Aren’t citizens entitled to propose and ensure enforcement of Electoral and Political ‘System Changes’? – By Bernard Fernando BRIDGE TO ETERNITY (NO SUBSTITUTE) – by Lakshman Navaratne When Tina Turner rocked Dubai: Fan and journalist recalls meeting the singer ...

As a Sri Lankan New Zealander, I know my adopted country can find compassion amid terror-by Himali McInnes New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and police commissioner Andrew Coster discuss the Auckland stabbing case. Photograph: Mark Mitchell/AP Source:Theguardian Itook some old, blunt kitchen knives to a second-hand shop a few months ago while decluttering. They politely declined the items, citing their policy against selling anything that could be used as a weapon. This shop’s policy now seems prescient. On a sunny spring afternoon, while West Auckland shoppers took pains to protect themselves against the coronavirus in a locked-down city, a terribly visible threat grabbed some sharp steel from the shelves, ran screaming down the aisles, and started stabbing random shoppers in the name of an invisible cloud of hate, alienation, radicalisation, distrust, anger, violence. Reports that the terrorist was a brown man, a Sri Lankan national twisted by Islamic State ideology, ignited a ...