Sri Lanka

It created an enormous stink.

Sri Lanka got their revenge by winning the World Cup against Australia a couple of months later.

And it was really the high point in Sri Lankan cricket.

And, you know, it was another level of power power moments where Australia was calling the shots then and thought it could do it by victimising this bowler who, like you say, to this day it's really hard to tell whether that elbow was straightening the 11 or 15 degrees or not.

There's only been two tied tests in the history of the game.

The government has the power to say that, okay, the eastern region and the northern region, all of you should be agroecology.

Yeah, sometimes if you don't prepare for it, it will be a disaster, as has happened in Sri Lanka.

But government is also important, no?

Absolutely.

And the uproar was that the pedophile priests in this country were not punished for by the church.

They were scattered around the world and replaced with priests from India and Sri Lanka and places like that.

And the effects of that on this country was devastating in many ways because a lot of people turned their back on the church, but they turned their back on God at the same time because they conflated the two.

So you've

And I made friends with him and he said, have you written a book? I said, yeah, it's very embarrassing, whatever.

Then he got hold of the book and we met again at the Gaul Lit Fest in Sri Lanka, I think a couple of weeks or three weeks later, and he had read the book and he totally got it.

He said, I know where you started and I know where you ended up, but it's perfectly okay.

And he also got it that you know that's a voice of the character and all of that and for a moment i kind of felt seen that okay you know somebody got it but it's okay most people just looked at it in a very shallow way and i feel i let myself down with that book and i will redeem myself soon so i don't even talk about it or plug it anywhere as you would have noticed but for the sake of this story you know why not

No, this is not the photo.

I first met Ona in 2019 during the presidential election in Sri Lanka.

And this is that photo.

So young.

Did you get to sleep that

night? Well, he got me on to the bloody the Sri Lankan drink, which was marvellous stuff.

And we got in a bit of trouble that tour, actually.

I got, Bondi was coach, bowling coach.

Cook Islands News reports the 49-year-old applied on 27 October, having previously tried in July.

A Sri Lankan national, she says she has repeatedly been denied transit visas by both Australia and New Zealand since February 2024. living alone in Rarotonga the whole time.

Immigration New Zealand has previously said it questions her intentions.

She told Cook Islands News that she is willing to be detained if it proves she poses no threat to immigration authorities.

You've got the route to Java.

You've got the route to India, Colombo, which is capital of Sri Lanka or Ceylon.

It was the Seychelles and crucially up to the Aegean and the Red Sea.

So it was kind of what you were saying.

Recently there have been anti-British broadcasts from Radio Madagascar and Paris Radio spoke of an Anglo-Saxon campaign in the occupation of the island.

Only three days ago, two French cruisers, the Montcalm and the Marseillaise, and the submarine tender Jules Verne, were reported to have arrived there with the Vichy explanation that they were off to keep the island out of foreign hands.

Madagascar, nearly 1,000 miles long, and the fourth largest island in the world, lies toward the United Nations route to Ceylon, India, Russia, via Persia, and dangerously close to the naval base at Durban.

Well, that last paragraph sums up the size of the problem.

If we put up the next slide here.

That was me, around age 22, living in Sri Lanka.

I was just soon after this.

uh i was looking for the government went to another country after this one and i was there for a few days on assignment i got a day off and so i decided to do something fun on my day off there were two tours that were being offered one was a helicopter tour into the huge mountains which i love mountains i love flying the other one was to a castle a famous castle which i wasn't as crazy about going to so i decided to go on the helicopter ride but last minute that morning I changed my mind and I went on the bus, the tour bus to the castle.