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Sri Lankan-born Anjalee de Silva elected to the Monash City Council Source: The Sunday morning Sri Lankan-born Anjalee de Silva was recently elected to the Monash City Council in the latest local government elections in Victoria, Australia. She was endorsed by the Australian Greens Party and is the only councillor of Sri Lankan origin to be elected in Victoria for the upcoming four-year term. As part of her role as a councillor, she has also been appointed a member of the Monash Council Gender Equity Advisory Committee and the Monash Council Multicultural Advisory Committee. Anjalee migrated to Australia as a four-year-old, with her younger sister Saranee and her parents Dr. Saman de Silva and Mihiri de Silva (nee Premathilake). At the time of migration, both her parents were chartered civil engineers who graduated from the University of Moratuwa. Anjalee graduated from the University of Melbourne with First Class Honours in ...