Peter Bugden Archives

eLanka Newsletter – 20 Sept – 6th edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter International Peace Day – The Rotary Club of Chennai Towers, RID 3232 and the Rotary Club of Granville RID 9675 organises an International Peace Day event on Sunday 20th September 2020 “P.M.G’s OFFICE, COLOMBO FORT” – By Des Kelly Tomb stone of Dr Hayman at Bournemouth – Warden of St Thomas’ College – A man who was a real benefactor of S. Thomas’ Mount and Gurutalawa –by Renuka De Silva RIVERSIDE THEATRES DIGITAL PRESENTS: LINGALAYAM IN PANCHA NADAI Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 5-minute home kidney health test wins three uni awards-By Rhea Nath Royal Palace of Kandy – By Arundathie Abeysinghe Health & Views – September 3nd Issue – by Harold Gunatillake A NEW VERSION OF SRI LANKA The Ocean in 3D Nalin-the iron ...

Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone – By Peter Bugden Phone support: “Their mental health is so poor because they’ve been locked up so long now and there’s no hope of a resolution; they feel quite hopeless.” Source:CatholicLeader “PLEASE, we are human … So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,” is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention in Brisbane on hearing the news that the Australian Government could take away his mobile phone. Raj is a Tamil refugee, a businessman from Sri Lanka who Australia has held in immigration detention for seven years. As a political refugee he is afraid to give his full name, and he doesn’t want his parents back home to know what he is going through. ...