the voice of the maltese no. 115

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November 24, 2015

The Voice of the Malteseonline magazine

Valletta Summitraises Malta’sinternational profile

The 2015 Valletta Summit on Migration insession at the Mediterranean ConferenceCentre in Valletta (see report on pages 12, 13)

Germany’s ChancellorAngela Merkel andGreece Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras enjoy ajoke at the Summit

Above: Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat (left)greets European CouncilPresident Donald Tusk

Castille Square at night during the open-ing ceremony of the Valletta Summit

Destiny makes ittwo JEC wins forMalta (see page 3)

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Europe and multiculturalismRecent events have demon-

strated to everyone, even thoseconvinced of the essential rele-

vance of multiculturalism, that underconditions of inordinate strain, thesystem is bound to fail. The basicproblem as I see it is not with the con-cept itself, but with the impossibleconditions imposed on it.While it is obvious that multicultur-

alism has worked in countries likeCanada and Australia, it seems to befailing dismally in Europe. It is there-fore reasonable to ask under whatconditions can one expect the systemto work, and more importantly,when it is likely to fail.

Historically, vast countrieswith a great need for man-power necessary to developtheir potential wealth havebeen eager to increase theirpopulation, and the quickestand surest way of doing so wasto encourage immigration on alarge scale. It is obvious thatone essential component in thisformula was that both host countryas well as the immigrants themselveshad a lot to gain from this arrange-ment.

The result is that 50 decades later,half the population of countries likeAustralia were born overseas, or hadparents who were born overseas. Thefact that they speak 200 languagesyet live peacefully together is a tri-umph of multiculturalism.

It is also an acknowledged fact thata sovereign country has the right toprotect its borders. Some countrieshave built walls of barbed wire tokeep out those they consider to be in-vaders. Others, like Australia, haveopted for the equally inhuman wayof turning back the boats and exilingthose caught attempting to enter thecountry and keeping them in condi-tions unfit for human beings, whileproudly declaring: “We havestopped the boats!”Compared with this, the decision by

some countries like Germany to opentheir borders and welcome fleeingmigrants with open arms would ap-pear to be a great humanitarian actwhich warms the cockles of one’sheart, a gesture worthy of a NobelPeace Prize.

And yet, this could not last. Thegates had to be slammed shut sooneror later. No country, even one de-sirous of bolstering its manpower,can allow an unchecked flow of hu-

manity. The need for border control has be-

come an issue with all countries ofEurope, threatening the Schengenconcept if not the whole idea of aunited Europe.

It is obviously ridiculous to talkabout multiculturalism in this con-text. It is impossible to integrate new-comers within society – which is theessence of multiculturalism – whenthe influx is prohibitively large.

This scenario is more likely to con-firm the patently absurd right-wingviews that racial purity is paramountand that any mixing with people of adifferent race is likely to be deleteri-ous in the long run.While one cannot but admire the hu-

manitarian approach to mass migra-tions exhibited by some countries aswell as many individuals, there is stilla niggling feeling that this approachis merely band-aid in nature and willnot solve the problem, which, as

ProfsMauriceCauchi everybodywill agree,lies deep wi-thin the cou-ntries of or-igin.

Westernc o u n t r i e shave decid-ed that thebest way tosolve thisproblem isto bomb tar-gets while

they stay out of harm’s waythousands of kilometres highup in the sky. Europe shouldknow better than to expectfighter jets to win wars. Theydestroy cities, they terrorisepopulations, they produce mil-lions of refugees trying to fleefrom the Armageddon they cre-ate, but by themselves they donot win wars.

The Poles during World WarII accepted the responsibility of form-ing an effective fighting force to liber-ate their homeland.

Would it be too outlandish to sug-gest that efforts of the Western pow-ers should be directed at organisingand training such a force of volun-teers out of the hundreds of thou-sands currently feeling lost andhelpless in various camps in Europeand the Middle East?

This may not resolve all the prob-lems associated with the current up-heavals not experienced since theaftermath of World War II, but mayset in motion the beginning of an ef-fort to tackle the problem at source,while at the same time providingsome economic as well as the equallyimportant psycho-social support tothose currently lost and searching foran identity in Europe.

(Professor Maurice Cauchi has writtenextensively on Maltese migration.)

The current epidemic of disen-franchisement and disaffec-tion felt by young people makethem prefer to join a criminalgang like Islamic State, whichcan offer nothing but bloodand almost certain death.

views that she is inspired by queen of soulAretha Franklin, represented Malta withthe catchy song Not My Soul, whose lyricsshe helped write along with Matt 'Muxu'Mercieca with music composed by EltonZarb, who were both were behind the

2013 winning entry‘The Start, impressedwith the rendition ofthe soul.

There were no gim-micks. She was alone onthe stage, and impres-sed with her strongvoice and confidence;she sang like a pro. Shereally stole the showwith her performancefinishing nine pointsahead of second-placedArmenia.

Destiny won by a wonby a 9-point margin.Destiny was awarded atotal of 185 points toArmenia's 176. Bothhad been exchangingtop place as the votingunfolded. Crucially, Ar-menia awarded 12

points to Malta, while Malta awardedseven points to Armenia.

Malta also received the maximum 12points from the children's jury, Serbia,Slovenia, Australia, Bulgaria, San Marino,and Albania.

Italian journalist Emanuele Lombardiniwrote that as had already been expected,eventual, victory, a deserved one, went toDestiny, even after her interpretation onthe night. “It was also an important signfor cosmopolitan Europe, seeing that thesinger is the daughter of a Nigerian foot-baller”

In the same site dedicated to Eurovision,another wrote: “Ladies and gentlemen, astar is born, I believe that we shall seenher again at the Eurovision, and perhaps,who knows, also in a short while listen tohear in a single on the radio. She has sucha beautiful voice.”Another one wrote: “Bravissima Malta. It

was my favourite along with Australia.Compliments to Destiny for her marvel-lous voice.”

Tuesday November 24, 2015 The Voice of the Maltese 3

It’s Malta’s Destiny, as the 13-year-old Des-tiny Chuckunyere, daughter of a Nigerianfootballer Ndubisi Chukunyere, who madea name for himself playing for Hibernians,was the winner of the 2015 Junior Eurovi-sion Contest (JEC). In the Bulgarian capi-tal, Sofia, she beat the opposition, youngsingers from 16 other nations to make ittwo wins in three years for Malta.

Destiny follows Gaia Cauchi’s success in2013 and after last year’s show whenMalta organised the event following Gaia’ssuccess, in 2016 Malta once again has theright to organise it on home soil. No won-der Prime Minister Prime Minister JosephMuscat tweeted: 'You are my Destiny!'

With two international summits, the2015 Valletta Summit on Migration justended, and the next won to come, theCHOGM Summit on 27-29, November hasbeen good for Malta. It certainly raises itsinternational profile, not only politicallybut also in the musical sector.Young Destiny’s success managed to unite

a country even politically – which is somefeat – as the political leaders both ex-pressed the same attitude. OppositionLeader Simon Busuttil tweeted: 'BravaDestiny! You make us all proud!'.

Everybody also agrees with what Presi-dent Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca wrote onher Facebook page: 'Well done to our littlestar Destiny Chukunyere. You made usproud.” She certainly did! Even the Arch-bishop, Charles Scicluna went on twitterto congratulate Destiny. He tweeted:“What a wonderful voice! God bless!

Destiny, who has said in various inter-

It’s Malta’s Destiny! 13-year-old makes it twoJEC wins in three years

A confident Destiny singing her way tovictory in the Junior Eurovision Conteston Saturday night at the Arena Arme-ecin in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia

Destiny... she couldn’t contain herself with happiness after her win

In this series of articles about my per-sonal experience during the war(WWII) years in Mata, today I am fo-

cussing on the so-called VictoryKitchens in Malta. Besides the fear andall the implications the war broughtabout with it, food became a great prob-lem. Convoys laden with food wereregularly sent to Malta but the enemywas determined to starve the Maltese inorder for us to give up fighting; hence,the enemy did its utmost to destroyconvoys on their route to our shores.

Many a time they succeeded, and as aresult, many food commodities, such asbread, milk, water, and several otheritems, including kerosene became veryscarce and long queues could be seen instreets, as people, many a time underthe supervision of a policeman, tried toget their hands on what was on offer.

Tickets (or cou-pons) were issued sothat families wereable to buy theirneeds according tothe size of the family.As food items be-came even scarcer, inJanuary 1942 a Com-munal Feeding De-partment was set up,and families wereurged to register formeals, and at thesame time had toforfeit some of their rations.

(I will deal with “Ration Cards” in the next issue).In April 1942 pasta, rice and tomato puree was rationed;

tinned milk could be bought until stocks lasted. Other foodcommodities such as sugar, oil, coffee, soap and kerosene be-came even scarcer. After a time, frozen meat and rice wereall exhausted, and on May 5, 1942 the amount of bread al-lowed to each person went down to 250 grams (qwart- u-nofs) daily.

By January 1942 many families had lost their homes, wereevacuated or were living in shelters and had no means tocook their food. Therefore SOUP KITCHENS were intro-

MALTA: Echoes

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duced to provide meals for these families. Later, in order to save fuel and food, VIC-

TORY KITCHENS replaced these soupkitchens. This is how Victory Kitchensoriginated. The word Victory was a verypositive name during those terrible anddrastic times.

The first Victory Kitchen was opened atLija on January 3, 1942. After that, otherVictory kitchens were opened all overMalta, and by June of that year 42 had beenset up. At the time it was difficult to recruit people

to work in these kitchens as supervisors,storekeepers, cooks and cleaners. Most

males were serving as conscripts, while many women weredoing the work normally done by men. These posts were filledmostly by housewives and inexperienced young ladies.

To help solve this problem, Archbishop Maurus Caruanaasked a number of nuns and religious from various Ordersto give a hand, and by July they were in charge of 14 VictoryKitchens. During that month there were 100,000 persons reg-istered to receive food from these kitchens, and as food andkerosene became extremely scarce, by January 1943 the num-ber went up to 175,536.

*Continued on page 5

In the previous issue in which I wrote about Malta Sheltersduring WWI that while they saved thousands of lives at

times were also a menace, I dealt at length about the tragedyon March 21, 1942, when two bombs devastated both the en-trance and the emergency exit of the shelter in Gafa` Street,Mosta and claimed the lives of 31 people, there were similartragedies, four in particular, in Kalkara, Hal Far and Luqa.On March 22, 1942: Kalkara was heavily bombed; about 15

persons sought refuge in a store, reinforced by a concreteroof that was used as a shelter, when a the store had a directhit. When the ARP workers arrived on the spot they thoughtthat all inside were dead under the debris. They had almostgiven up hope of finding anybody alive, when one of themnoticed a leg protruding out of the rubble. It was that ofseven-year-old Victor Hili, who later related that when thebuilding collapsed he was wedged between two stones, andluckily a mattress landed on his chest.

For a time the boy lost consciousness and when he camethrough he plucked up enough courage and at hearingvoices he started yelling. He went on to say that his mother,two sisters and a younger brother were not so lucky.

During the same air raid and in that same street, fourmembers of the Coster family went down their private shel-ter. As soon as they descended a bomb hit their house.

While the house was a total loss, a gas pipe had burst andthe fumes added to the tragedy. There were no survivors.

Two days later, on March 24: Hal Far was under a heavyattack and an enormous amount of bombs fell all over theairfield. Two shelter chambers where about 28 servicemenand civilians were seeking refuge were hit. The thick con-crete roof slabs collapsed on top of the chambers, trappingall inside. The corpses were retrieved several months later.

On April 9: Luqa village fell victim to another deluge ofbombs that destroyed many houses and severely damagedthe Parish church. In one of the shelters in Pope InnocentStreet out of the 32 persons there only nine survived, theother 23 were killed.

These are just a few examples of how air raid shelterssaved lives, or served as traps. On the positive side; the Mal-tese rock saved the lives of thousands of people. In manyinstances the hard rock greatly reduced the effect of theblast and saved people’s lives. If it were not so, due to thegreat amount of bombs that rained over the Island thewhole island of Malta would have been destroyed.On another positive note, nowadays a few of these shelters

are being restored and used as tourist attractions, as part ofthe history of our Island. They are also a source of incometo their owners.

The Victory Kitchens

Other Instances when shelters did not offer protection



Food was far from appetising; the vegetable soup was madeup of a few pieces of vegetables swimming in an amount ofliquid, while stew was made of tomato juice and a thin sliceof mutton; the balbuljata resembled more a soup than solidfood – it was very watery. Omelettes were made with egg-powder.

On August 10, 1942: three portions for three persons wereoffered one plate which consisted of a piece of skin with agood layer of fat and a shadow of meat on top, six table-spoonfuls of sauce and five peas.

September 1: All mid-day meals supplied from the VictoryKitchens of Valletta and several other districts, had to bethrown away. The meal was composed chiefly of liver in asort of stew. It was hard and had a bitter taste, which made it unpalatable

and uneatable. That was because the gall had not been re-moved from the liver. A slice of corned beef was servedhours later, and in some places it was served the followingday.

During these hard days, people also found the funny sideof these kitchens and in the streets and while waiting in thequeue made up songs about Victory Kitchens such as:

FaΩola u sardin,ftit zalza u g˙a©in,tal-Victory Kitchen.

Minestra bla g˙a©in,patata u sardin,tal-Victory Kitchen.

Ûid l-ilma fil-bormabiex titma’ liç-çorma,tal-Victory kitchen.

Ftit zalza w spaghetti,ton taΩ-Ωejt jew pulpetti,tal-Victory kitchen.

*From page 4

During the blitzthere were 200 Vic-tory Kitchens in serv-ice. They served oneportion of food perperson either at mid-day or in the evening:one cooked meal aday as a cost of six-pence (€0.14 cents)every portion. Thatwas considered to bevery expensive compared to salaries, which were very low.

In the beginning these kitchens were not that popular; butas nobody could live without food, sooner or later they hadto accept situation.

The menu of these kitchens was very limited. One couldnot blame them because with a small amount of food theyhad to feed thousands of people. They used to cook in hugecaldrons and meals largely consisted of backed beans,corned beef, sausages, sardines, vegetable soup (minestra)and meat stew (stuffat), and tomatoes and scrambled eggs(balbuljata).

People used to queue outside Victory Kitchens about anhour before the doors were opened. To take food home onehad to carry his own container the size of which dependedon the number of portions, together with the ticket andenough money to pay for every portion.

People queuing to get what food they could from the Victory Kitchens

Despite hardship People still found funny side of the V KitchensThe VK weekly menu consisted of:Monday and Saturday:

Maccaroni with tomato sauce.Tuesday:

Balbuljata (scrambled eggs andtomatoes).

Wednesday and Friday:Vegetable soup or sardines.

Sunday and Thursday:Stewed meat or corned beef with

tomatoes and baked beans

Original receipts (dated Oct/Nov1942) issued by the Control FoodDept and signed by managers run-ning the Victory Kitchens to thepeople buying the food from them.

On the screen to theside of the band beau-tiful pictures of ourhomeland and thetemples were shown tothe audience. Thesongs were composedand sung in Maltese toan audience who hadnever heard our lan-guage spoken before,let alone immersed intunes that were bothexotic and beautiful. Two rows back in the

audience a youngman sat with tears streaming downhis cheeks. I noticed him early inthe concert and wondered if he wasok or whether he was feeling deeplydistressed for some reason.At the end of the concert I got off

the stage and made my way over tohim. He walked up to me and threwhis arms around me and stood theresobbing. He composed himselfenough to tell me that he was somoved to finally be able to hearmusic about Malta, sung in Malteseand to hear the beauty of our lan-

guage and see that of the Islands. Whenever he went to the major

festivals all he managed to see wereperformances in the languages ofnations surrounding the Mediter-ranean but never Malta. He was athird generation Maltese/Australianand THIS was what he had waitedfor and hoped to hear.

He told me how happy he was andhow proud he felt to be Maltese andhow proud he was of his heritage. Hefinally felt that sense of belongingthat is so important to all of us, espe-

cially when we havethat sense that we be-long somewhere otherthan where we are liv-ing.

On stage, Skorba hadgiven voice to hishomeland and his cul-ture and had done soto the hundreds of peo-ple sitting with him inthe audience. It’s notthat Skorba’s musicand songs were fromthe Islands, they wereabout the Islands and

this to him was significant. They were also about him and

made him special amongst the au-dience. He was a product of those Is-lands and he always felt that deepconnection even though he hadnever been there or directly experi-enced its grace and hospitality. What this young man experienced

as an audience member was pre-cisely what prompted me to startthis band.



Afew years ago, my band Skorba was presenting a concert about the Ne-olithic temples of Malta in the Powerhouse Museum in the capital ofQueensland, Brisbane. The music pulsed out a musical representation

of the Islands themselves, the Temples of Mnajdra, Óa©ar Qim, Skorba, TheHypogeum and Tarxien and the magic of the islet of Filfla, apparently sospecial to the ancient ones who built these magnificent temples.

Skorba: BringingMalta to Australiathrough song and visuals

Skorba’s foundation members for the Tem-ples project were Andy Busuttil, John Robin-son, Bertie McMahon and Paul Jarman. TheSiege project will include Andy, John, Bertie,Llew Kiek and John Napier.

Skorba on the big stage atthe National Folk Festival

For years I had played ‘multi-cultural’ music from Macedo-nia, Bulgaria, Turkey,Kurdistan, the Middle East andother parts of Eastern Europeand Asia Minor.

While I really loved this musicand enjoyed playing and singingit, I always felt that it wasn’t quite‘me’. It wasn’t reflective of the placefrom which I came or the culture thatwas so deeply embedded in me. I need-ed a vehicle that could be used to carrymy homeland from the depths of myheart and soul to audiences in Aus-tralia that I thought would respondwell to what we, as a band, were doing.

What this young man and I hadboth been experiencing was thatyearning for ‘belonging’ that was pre-viously so lacking in our lives.

What I did also find about the musicwe were playing was that it proved, atfirst, rather disconcerting to the moreconservative of the Maltese membersof our audiences. This experience wasquite distressing for me. They oftenfound the music to be rather alienand very different tothe Westernised formsthat they were usedto.

The music that weplay cannot dependon Malta’s traditionalmusic. Most of it, ex-cept for the variousforms of G˙ana, hasbeen lost over thecenturies. The ap-proach that Skorbatakes is to use musicalinfluences from thecountries around theMediterranean Basinwho had kept theirtraditions intact andthat had an impact on the history ofour Islands.

However, when these audiences re-alised what it was that we weredoing and could see the impact ofthe show on non-Maltese membersof the audience, they quickly realisedthat we were representing the historyand geography of the Islands, theirIslands, in a way that left the audi-ence mesmerised and thoroughly im-pressed with our homeland.

Three concerts in particular stick inmy mind. One was held in Armidale incountry NSW that was commissionedby the Country Women’s Association(CWA) who choose a different countryeach year to feature in their special‘cultural events’. This was Malta’syear and Skorba was asked to performthere on the basis of our growing repu-tation as substantial performers with agreat audio-visual presentation aboutMalta. This concert was also attendedby a number of eminent Maltese whomade the trip from Sydney also by in-vitation from the CWA. The concert drew a standing ova-

tion and the Maltese members of the

audience quickly recognised theenormity of the response to ourmusic by the 5-600 CWA delegates. Ithink it is fair to say that the Maltesecontingency were delighted that ourmusic and visual presentation hadsuch a huge impact. Many of the women in the audi-

ence came up to me afterwards totell me that they were planning atrip to Europe but did not realise justhow magnificent Malta was andthey were now going to include avisit in their travel itinerary. Thiswas often a consequence for mem-bers of the many audiences who at-tended our concerts. The second concert that particularly

stuck in my mind was one organisedwith the help of Maria de Carlo, one

of the principals of the Maltese Lan-guage School in Horsley Park (a sub-urb on the Western fringe of Sydney).This particular concert was held inThe Óamrun Club and was alwaysgoing to be a tough one!

Bringing music such as ours to peoplewhose ears are accustomed to moreWestern styles and who may be criticalof what we were doing in our perform-ances was anxiety provoking for me tosay the least. At first it was fair to saythat it appeared my anxieties wereprobably going to be sustained! However, within a very short time

the audience (made up of mainlymore senior aged Maltese and Gozi-tan migrants) was captivated by thevisuals in particular and then allowedthemselves to listen to the music andsongs and thoroughly enjoyed them.The standing ovation at the end andmultitude of congratulations were ahuge relief and received with greatpleasure by the band members.

The third concert that was a highlightfor the band was the opening concertof the 2007 National Folk Festival inCanberra, Australia’s capital. I think it

was fair to say that the majority ofpeople in the audience were expectingCeltic and Anglo-based music. The MCintroduced the band by talking aboutIreland and mispronounced the band’sname. Not a great start one could say.The audience numbered in the vicinityof 1500 – 2,000.

The stage was enormous and we wereblessed with a screen on each side ofthe stage for our visual presentationsto be displayed. I had written a scriptfor our own announcer and she did agreat job introducing our songs.

Our welcoming song ‘Mer˙ba’ wasplayed. The audience was stunned intosilence and then erupted in applause.We played two more songs, QalbiMieg˙ek and Filfla and left the stage tothunderous applause. Skorba had ar-

rived and broughtMalta right into theheart of the audienceand the start of oneof this Nation’s great-est festivals.The Maltese lan-

guage spoken byMaltese immigrantsin Australia hasoften been describedas ‘Maltralian’. Thisis an accurate de-scription of whathappens to manyintroduced culturesin this poly-culturalcountry. A new form of the

culture emerges that is the originalethnic culture with a particular ‘Aus-tralian’ flavour. I’ve recognised thisin the music of the many nationsplayed here. This music cannot beaccurately described as ‘World’ or‘multi-cultural’ music. It is trans cul-tural and is generated by bridgingbetween the source culture and thatof this host nation. Skorba plays trans cultural music

that reflects the beauty of Malta andshows the Islands in all their glory tothe audience. Up to now this gloryhas been a reflection of the magnifi-cent temples of Malta. The next willbe about the Ottoman Siege of Maltain 1565 and is due to be launched to-wards the end of next year.

Once again it will be an audio-vi-sual presentation and it will be a his-torical travelogue that takes theaudience on a journey through thesiege and its immediate aftermath.Many of the photos of the great fortsthat I took on my recent trip homewill be used in this project. We cer-tainly hope that you will be able toparticipate in this journey with us.


On stage giving a voice tothe Maltese audience’shomeland and culture

From page 6

A section of the audienceat the CW cconcert

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Ialways enjoy reading Maurice Cauchi’scontributions on The Voice. His latest

article on Malta’s cultural exchanges withAustralia (Issue No. 114) covered the visitof Cosmos Wind Ensemble and the filmSimshar. His reference to the Cosmos’ concerts was

inappropriate, at least in Sydney. Therewas no such thing as “a considerable audi-ence turning up” to listen. In fact, you couldhardly call those present, an audience,which was indeed a pity.

Ihave followed with some pride the recentValletta Summit on Migration in which

Malta hosted leaders of EU and Africancountries in a two-day discussion on the mi-grants’ plight, those unfortunates who haveto leave their country because of conflicts,and cross the seas at great risk to try andfind a better life elsewhere.

As a young man I was struck by Malta’sinitiative and the compassion shown by theEU countries towards the migrants.

What a contrast with the disgusting atti-tude expressed by former Australian PMTony Abbott at the Thatcher Lecture meet-ing in London in which he chastised Europefor its “love your neighbour as yourself” inhelping the immigrants. Shame on him!

Considerable audience?

What a contrast!

Enzo Guzman jikteb minn Malta

Xtaqt naqsam mag˙kom esperjenza ©didali ˙loqt dan l-a˙˙ar !!

Waqt il-programm "BEJN IL-ÓBIEB" linipproduçi u nippreΩenta kuljum fuq RadjuMalta 93.7fm, bejn is-2.15 u t-3.30pm, (˙inMalti), qed nistieden lil kull min jixtieqjitkellem waqt il-programm biex jikkuntatt-jani fuq: [email protected] ikun irid jitkellem fuq ir-radju jtini n-

numru tat-telefon (landline mhux çellulari)u nçempillu jien biex nirrekordja t-tele-fonata li mbag˙ad inxandar waqt il-pro-gramm!!

Wie˙ed jista' jg˙addi tislijiet, eççetra lill-familja u l-˙bieb, u anke jitlob xi diska par-tikulari. Sintendi dan huwa servizz li l-PBS f’Malta

qed joffri lill-Maltin u G˙awdxin li jg˙ixubarra mill-GΩejjer tag˙na, ming˙ajr ˙las !!

Lina Brockdorff tikteb minn Malta:

Grazzi u Prosit tax-xog˙ol tag˙kom f’TheVoice of the Maltese (Nru. 114). Veru li

je˙dilkom ˙afna ˙in biex tipproduçuha, immakull minuta hija apprezzata mill-qarrejja kollhakemm ta' Malta u wkoll fl-Awstralja u n˙awio˙ra fejn hemm jg˙ixu emigranti Malti. Hijapont li jg˙aqqadna ma' utna li hallew dawn ix-xtut tant snin ilu. Awguri!

Catherine Simpson from Balmain NSW, writes:

Clayton Bartolo from Adelaide writes:

While visiting Malta Stay at: While visiting Malta Stay at: The Diplomat Hotel, 173 Tower Road SliemaThe Diplomat Hotel, 173 Tower Road Sliema

Email:Email: [email protected] Tel: (00356) [email protected] Tel: (00356) 23497000

Grazzi u prosit!

Anton Attard minn Redfern NSW, jikteb:

Nixtieq tassew nirringrazzja lil The Voicetal-artiklu mirqum fl-a˙˙ar ˙ar©a dwar il-

veteran ©urnalista u xandar, il-mibki AntoineSaid Pullicino. Kien aqqu dak li nkiteb dwarug˙ax tassew li fil-qasam tax-xandir ftit kellnaxandara tal-kalibru tieg˙u fl-Awstralja.

Ftit konna nafu dwar il-karriera tieg˙u g˙axkif qieg˙ed ji©i meta nitilfu nies b˙al Antoine,

Tif˙ir mist˙oqq

Dun Philip Calleja jikteb minn Malta:

Grazzi. Kemm baqa’ sabi˙ Sant’An©lu (ri-tratti fil-pa©na ta’ quddiem tal-˙ar©a Nru.

114) f’g˙ajnejn l-emigranti minn Malta.L-Awstralja ssellem lil Charles Abela Mizziu Malta ssellem lil Antoine Said Pullicino.

Tislima lil Charles Abela Mizzi u Antoine Said Pullicino

Biex issemmg˙ule˙inkom f’Malta

Fred Fenech u o˙rajn, li kieku mhux g˙al TheVoice li tidhol sewwa fid-dettal ta’ ˙ajjithom,il-kontribut tag˙hom lejn il-komunita` Maltijajista’ jintilef. Waqt l-elu©i li jsiru fil-funerali ftit ikun hemm

tag˙rif dettaljat dwar kemm ˙admu u stinkawdawn il-protagonisti g˙all-komunita` Maltija.Dejjem sintendi jkun hemm kliem ta’ apprez-zament fir-relazzjonijiet tag˙hom mal-familja,kif g˙andu jkun u kif inhu xieraq.

Paul Mercieca from Fairfield, NSW,writes:

The last few weeks have beenvery emotional for me for anumber of reasons. My father,

who will soon be 86 is still very ac-tive and likes to keep in touch withall around him. On his own insis-tence, very fortnight immediately Ireceive The Voice of the Maltese I printfor him a copy of the magazine andforward it to him to read. He devoursit from front to back page. Recently after all the publicity and

write-ups on The Voice and its face-book page about the Maltese filmproduction, Simshar, and in spite ofthe long drive, I took my dad toWarrawong to watch the movie thatis set in the Maltese fishing village ofhis birthplace, Marsaxlokk. To be honest, and if I am allowed

to pass judgement from a guy whowatching films is a great hobby, theproduction is no blockbuster, butquite passable. For my father it wasvery emotional to watch, and impor-

tantly, to listen to the ac-tors speaking in Maltese.He unashamedly cried al-most throughout the filmand he has been talking about it eversince.These emotions prevailed with the

most recent issue of The Voice of theMaltese magazine, after he read thetwo very well written contributions,by Doris Cannataci about the shel-ters in Malta during World War II,and also Andy Busuttil’s article abouthis experience at visiting Malta forthe first time after 51 years.It is great that after the loss of The

Maltese Herald we now have such aprofessional publication to read andbe kept updated. Thanks to the teambehind it. It is such a pity that it isonly fortnightly, however.My dad came to Australia in 1966

and then set in motion arrangementsfor the whole family to follow and torebuild our future in this country-continent. We never regretted it. He worked hard in various jobs be-

fore he eventually found the right

one that helped him and the wholefamily to establish us. It wasn’t easyfor him at first, and I know that hemade a lot of sacrifices before thewhole family could settle down toliving comfortably.He still loves Malta a lot and my onlyregret is, that his ailing health pre-cludes him from visiting Malta again.The long trip would be too tiring. So,with the knowledge that he is still sofond of Malta I have made arrange-ments for him to be in constant touchwith the island, either on Skype or bywatching Maltese TV programmesthat are streamed from the island.I know there are a lot of other old

Maltese folk around who, like my fa-ther still have Malta at heart, and I im-plore their families to follow myexample when it comes to communi-cating with their homeland. Today, in-formation technology has donewonders and though a flight to Maltatakes about 24 hours, keeping in touchwith Malta could only be a click away.


Emotions galore thanks to Simshar

Herbert Magri-Overend from Friends of MaltaGC (Formerly Association of Maltese Commu-nities of Egypt) writes:

Many thanks for the issue of The Voice ofthe Maltese No. 114, and congratulations

on its production.Without hesitation, I can honestly say that it

was the best you have ever produced.The articles on the “Malteseness” of the gen-

erations in Australia ex-Malta, complementsours of September 2014 and February 2015(Nos 104 and 105).

Great response to the Maltese film in the Illawara region

George Bartolo from FarmsboroughHeights NSW, writes:

It is with great satisfaction to note thatmy personal effort to bring the Maltese

film Simshar to Wollongong and the Illa-warra region, and with the help of An-thony Scerri, who made the arrangementswith the management of the Gala Cinemaof Warrawong, it was a great success.

The film was shown November 5-11 andthe Maltese of the Illawarra region re-

sponded to the call. As it was screenedover a six-day period that included aweekend, it gave the opportunity for everyone to visit the Gala cinema and watch thefirst film of such high quality produced inMalta by the Maltese.

From feedback I have received this filmwas well liked and the Maltese of Wollon-gong are ready for more.

If similar attractions become available Iwill do my utmost to bring them to theIllawarra Region for the enjoyment of all.

Congratulations!

and The Voice

Ftit tal-jiem ilu, bejn il-˙dax u t-tnax ta' Novembru, saretkonferenza fis-Sala tal-Mediterran g˙all-Konferenzi f’-Malta, fejn mexejja Ewropej u Afrikani ddiskutew il-kriΩi

tar-refu©jati, l-aktar dik ta' Afrikani li jmorru l-Ewropa g˙alra©unijiet ekonomiçi. B˙al ma nafu, ˙afna, wisq, minn dawntra©ikament jispiççaw f'qieg˙ il-ba˙ar fil-Ba˙ar Mediterran.

Il-Konferenza intemmet bil-waqfien ta' fond ta' Ωew© biljundollaru, bil-˙sieb li jsir Ωviluppfil-pajjiΩi tat-tluq ˙alli min ikunim˙ajjar jemigra forsi minflokjit˙ajjar ifittex opportunitajiet qribta' daru, jiΩdiedu opportunitajietta' viΩas temporanji g˙all-edukaz-zjoni fl-Ewropa, u ssir kooperaz-zjoni bejn l-Ewropa u l-pajjiΩitat-tluq.1 Dan kollu Ωgur jie˙u Ω-Ωmien, u wie˙ed irid jara jekk dinl-inizjattiva hijiex biss qatra fl-oçean li hemm bΩonn.

Fl-istess waqt, il-migrazzjoni l-kbira l-o˙ra lejn il-pajjiΩi tal-Punent mill-Lvant Nofsani, g˙adhag˙addejja b'ritmu mg˙a©©el, b'niesmill-Iraq u s-Sirja ja˙arbu l-infernli jeΩisti hemmhekk bil-mijiet tal-eluf. Apparti l-gwerra çivili fejn˙afna Sirjani jridu je˙ilsu mid-dit-tatur Assad, l-organizzazzjoni fuq fomm kul˙add hija l-Istat Is-lamiku.Dan l-a˙˙ar, fi ftit jiem, dan il-grupp wettaq attakki f'Bejrut, il-

Libanu, fuq il-grupp Musulman Xijta il-ÓeΩbollah (40 ru˙ mejta),fl-E©ittu fej ©ew mixlija li splo-dew bomba fuq ajruplan Russuli kien qed jie˙u turisti Russi lura lejn pajjiΩhom minn Ωjaraf'Sharm el-Sheikh (200), u l-a˙˙ar atroçità l-ammont ta' attakkisuwiçida f'Pari©i fi Franza (fejn mietu 130 ru˙).

Qed ji©i ssuspettat li wie˙ed minn dawk li attakkaw lin-nies f'-Pari©i kien infilsa ru˙u mar-refu©jati li da˙lu l-Ewropa mill-Greçja ftit tax-xhur ilu.

Dan sfortunatament qed iwassal g˙al pressjoni f'diversi pajjiΩibiex jinΩamm minnufih id-d˙ul tar-refu©jati. Dan rajnieh hawn-hekk fl-Awstralja, fejn it-talba saret anke minn membru tal-par-lament tal-partit fil-gvern,2 fl-Ewropa stess u issa anke fl-IstatiUniti, fejn anke kandidati g˙all-presidenza ta' dak il-pajjiΩ, inkluΩDonald Trump u Jed Bush, qed isemmg˙u le˙inhom g˙al dan il-pass.Minflok ma jsiru kontrolli iktar stretti fuq min ji©i aççettat b˙ala

refu©jat, inwaqqfu lil kul˙add. Jekk grupp ta' sewwieqa jiksru r-regolamenti tat-traffiku, inwaqqfu s-sewqan. Lo©ika, le?U minn min qed ja˙arbu r-rrfu©jati? Mhux mill-istess terroristi?It-tra©edja hi li r-refu©jati qed ji©u mpin©ija li huma kollha, jew

˙afna minnhom huma, Musulmani u terroristi. Qed jing˙ad li majistg˙ux ikunu çittadini tajba g˙ax g˙alihom Alla ji©i l-ewwel;ma jistg˙ux jag˙mlu ˙bieb mal-Insara u l-Lhud; li l-mexxejjaspritwali tag˙hom iridu l-qerda tal-IΩrael u l-Amerika; li (preΩu-mibbilment ra©el) irid jiΩΩewwe© erba' nisa u jsawwat lill-marameta ma tobdix; li d-demokrazija u l-Islam ma jistg˙ux jeΩistuflimkien, eçç eçç.

Jien m'g˙andix dubju li hemm Musulmani li jemmnu hekk,imma dawn jistg˙u jitqiesu rappreΩentattivi? Il-Klu Klux KlanjirrappreΩentaw lill-Insara? M'hemmx ukoll Insara li jemmnu lil-li©i t'Alla ti©i qabel dik tal-istat?3

Il-Knisja Kattolika ma tg˙idx lil çittadinibiex ma jobduxli©ijiet immorali jew kontra t-tag˙lim tal-evan©elu?4

Jien ng˙id g˙alija f'˙ajti g˙amilt diversi ˙bieb Musulmani, u˙udfil-qrib. Fl-istess ˙in naf ukoll Insara li lanqas jo˙olmu li jag˙mlu˙bieb ma' xi Musulman. Dan jirrifletti fuq l-Insara kollha?

Abram, il-patrijarka tal-Lhud, Insara u l-Musulmani, mhux Ωew©nisa kellu? G˙adni ma smajt lil ebda saçerdot fil-knisja jikkun-dannah. U possibbli ma smajniex bl-IndoneΩja u t-Turkija, pajjiΩib'sistema demokratika fejn is-soçjetà hija predominantementMusulmana?F'˙ajti rajt wisq pre©udizzji, u nies jg˙a©©lu biex jikkundannaw.

Jien, f'waqtiet diffiçli b˙al dawk li qed ng˙ixu fihom daΩ-Ωmien,nistaqsi lili nnifsi, kieku Ìesù x'kien jag˙mel? X'attitudni kienjie˙u?Forsi mistoqsija a˙jar, x'g˙amel fi Ωmienu?It-twe©iba malajr ne˙duha mill-Bibbja tal-Insara, u hija sorpren-

denti. Ìesù xe˙et ˙arstu fuq ˙afna minn dawk il-kategoriji ta' niesimwarrba li kien hemm fis-soçjetà ta' Ωmienu: is-Samaritani, il-prostituti, il-kolletturi tat-taxxi, ir-Rumani, u l-morda (b˙al-lebbruΩiu l-g˙omja, li l-marda tag˙hom kienet titqies xhieda tad-dnub fil-familja), tkellem mag˙hom, ˙abbhom u g˙annaqhom mieg˙u!Lil Samaritan (illum x’aktarx kien ikun Palestinjan Musulman)

f'parabbola fa˙˙ru talli g˙en lil wie˙ed imsawwat f'nofs ta' triq;lil prostituta qalilha li ma jikkundannahiex; fuq çenturjun Rumanqal lil ta' madwaru li ma kienx ra fidi akbar minn tieg˙u; lill-morda ne˙˙ielhom il-kawΩa tal-istmerrija li kienet t˙oss g˙ali-hom is-soçjetà ta' madwarhom, u nistg˙u nibqg˙u sejrin.

Il-messa©© hu çar: nift˙u qalbna g˙al min hu ta' rieda tajba, uma n˙allux il-pre©udizzji jag˙muna. Il-©lieda tag˙na g˙andhatkun mal-minoranza storbjuΩa u qerrieda - it-terroristi li l-Islamjinqdew biss bih, u mhux mal-ma©©oranza kwieta u ©wejda, li l-Islam jaraw fih l-istess g˙erq tal-kelma SLIEM.

PerspettivaA version of this series inEnglish may be found inthe author's blog at: http://ivancauchi.blogspot.com

kitba ta’

IVAN

CAUCHI


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Avery poignant and moving cel-ebration in memory of the Mal-tese ANZACs who joined the

Australian Imperial Forces and NewZealand Expeditionary Forces of WorldWar One was held recently at theScouts Hall, Civic Park Pendle HillNSW. The celebration had initially been

planned to be held at the Maltese Bi-Centennial Monument, but due to in-clement weather the organisers, theMaltese RSL sub-branch of NSW, de-cided instead to hold it indoors. The highlight of the event was the

unveiling and blessing of the plaque

bearing 54 names of Maltese heroeswho served with the ANZACs duringWW1. Fr Noel Bianco MSSP blessedthe plaque while Charles Mifsud andJulie Owens, Federal Member for Par-ramatta, unveiled the plaque.This celebration was very well organ-

ised and directed with military preci-sion by the MC, Andrew Magro. Thenational anthems of Malta, Australianand NZ were sung by Marisa Previtera(Malta), James Cassar (Australia) andStephanie Osborne (New Zealand). Ja-mes Cassar provided the musical inter-lude with songs related to the occasion.Charles Mifsud, the President of the

Maltese RSL Sub Branch, welcomed theguests and explained the story behindthe plaque and the detailed researchdone to locate and confirm the names. The plaque would eventually becomepart of the Maltese Bi-CentennialMonument with a replica affixed atthe Maltese Resource Centre at Parra-matta West. Mark Caruana, Marianne Potts, An-

drew Magro and other RSL memberscarried out the extensive researchSix descendants of the ANZAC who

were honoured at the celebrationspoke emotionally about their connec-tions and expressed deep pride thattheir ancestors’ names are now for-mally acknowledged and inscribed onthe plaque for their heroic acts.The descendants that attended the

unveiling were: Profs Peter Castaldi(on behalf of his dad Peter and also forAnthony Xuereb); Paul and Judy Kelly(on behalf of William Walter Farrugia);Joe Deguana (on behalf of CharlesCamilleri); Marianne Potts (on behalfof Alan Azzopardi, grandson of An-thony Azzopardi); Helen Zammit (onbehalf of Frank Brown) and Lea Hard-ing (on behalf of Charles Bonavia)The special guests at the ceremony

were Julie Owens MP, Dr Hugh McDer-mott MP, Mark Taylor MP and Clr.Lisa Lake. John Haines and Bryn Millerrepresented the RSL. The president ofthe MCC of NSW Emanuel Camilleri,representatives of various associationsand The Voice of the Maltese also at-tended. The President of the RSL Sub Branch

was disappointed that no representa-tive of the Malta Government could bepresent for this historic occasion.

100th Anniversary of the ANZACsMaltese from WW1 remembered

Some of the descendants of the MalteseANZACs who were honoured by havingtheir names inscribed on the plaque

Julie Owens MP and the President ofthe RSL Sub-Branch Charles Mifsudafter the unveiling of the plaque

The leaders of EU and African coun-tries who met in Malta in a two-dayinternational summit on migration that

has helped enhance the political will to solvethe migration crisis amid concerns that theSchengen Treaty that allows free movementmay fall apart.The Valletta Summit brought together about

63 European and African heads of state andgovernment, as well as representatives of in-

ternational and regional organisations.The biggest summit Malta has ever hosted

discussed cooperation in order to tackle themigration crisis and ended with the EUpledging cash in its bid to stem the flow ofmigrants across the Mediterranean on theirway to European countries.It recognised that migration is a shared re-

sponsibility of countries of origin, transit anddestination.

The summit ended with the political decla-ration and a 17-page action plan that wereunanimously adopted, designed to:1. Address the root causes of irregular mi-gration and forced displacement2. Enhance cooperation on legal migrationand mobility3. Enforce the protection of migrants andasylum seekers4. Prevent and fight irregular migration, mi-grant smuggling and trafficking in human be-ings 5. Work more closely to improve cooperationon return, readmission and reintegration

Describing the outcome as “an importantfirst step for a two-way relationship” be-tween Europe and Africa, Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat, added that “ We spoke veryclearly. There’sconvergence but also con-frontation on some issues.”


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2015 Valletta Summit recognises thatmigration is a shared responsibility


After the Valletta Summit on Migration a few days ago, on No-vember 27-29, Malta is hosting another important event, theCommonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)

for 53 heads of state. It is the second time it is being organised inMalta. The first was in 2005.

Throughout history Malta has served as a bridge between NorthAfrica and Europe. Now, as the CHOGM host it is providing a plat-form for the countries members of the Commonwealth, a voluntaryassociation of 53 independent states with a combined population of2.2 billion, to come together to build bridges of cooperation.

They represent one fourth of the countries of the UN, thereforeCHOGM will bring together a community of countries with the en-ergy and drive to develop fair, resilient and universally acceptable so-lutions to global problems. The Commonwealth includes some of theworld’s largest, smallest, richest and poorest nations.The British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke

of Edinburgh, her son Prince Charles The Prince of Wales, accompa-nied by The Duchess of Cornwall, will all be attending CHOGM.

Highlights of the visit will include a full ceremonialwelcome in St George's Square, Valletta, a receptionhosted by The Queen for the people of Malta, as wellas the colourful pageantry of the CHOGM opening ceremony andHeads of Government dinner. At the same time, the Royal Familywill be celebrating its enduring affection for Malta: its people, its his-tory and its future.As in the Valletta Summit, the island’s facilities will be stretched to

the limit as Malta welcomes 5,000 delegates and 1,000 journalists,supported by 500 volunteers in 10 of the chosen venues.

As a result of hosting CHOGM, for the next two years Malta willbe the Chair of the Commonwealth, and while doing so, is determinedto see that following the Malta event, the Commonwealth embarkson a more assertive and more influential course, ensuring the organ-isation a more beneficial lease of life.

The official opening ceremony at the Mediterranean ConferenceCentre (MCC), is to transmitted globally via www.chogm2015.mt/.The official CHOGM retreat is to be held at Fort St Angelo, in Birgu.

The participants and journalists in the sum-mit hosted believed the event was very wellorganised but it was difficult to forecast ifthe action plan would eventually succeed.

Most leaders agreed that following broadconsensus among them, the next step is forthe implementation of the plan and to trans-late words into deeds.

Meanwhile, the foreign Journalists agreedthat Fort St Elmo, that served as the MediaCentre was possibly the most stunningvenue to ever host an EU summit.

The stunning weather also helped andsome of the officials accompanying theleaders stayed along with journalists toenjoy a short holiday on the island

Malta lauded for a well-organised event

CHOGM 2015: Malta hosting representatives of 2.2 bn. peopleCHOGM 2015: Malta hosting representatives of 2.2 bn. people

A group photo at the Mediterranean Conference Centre ofthe participants in the 2015 Valletta Summit on Migration

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He added that migration shouldn't be seenin isolation but to look at the potential ofAfrica, and pointed out that Europe is theonly group of countries that is doing some-thing tangible, despite its differences.

EU members also formally launched anemergency trust fund for Africa with an ini-tial €1.8 billion to combat the poverty andconflicts driving migration to Europe, with25 EU Member States and two non-EUdonors (Norway and Switzerland) announceda total contribution of around €78.2 million. Malta’s share would be €250,000, which per

capita is one of the highest contributorsamong EU member countries. France, theUK and Germany have pledged just €3 mil-lion each.

European Council president Donald Tusksaid that time is running out for Schengen andthat the situation is grave because certain EUmember states were unilaterally imposing bor-der controls. "What is happening is unprece-dented,” he said. He also sounded a warningto migrants by saying that asylum seekers can-not decide where they want to be given asy-

lum inside the EU, andthat the plan intends toimprove the protectionof displaced persons

and increase the fight against smugglers. Jean Claude Juncker the President of the

European Commission said he was not happyat all with the migrant relocation pace to date.“We are meant to relocate 160,000 and just130 have been moved between memberstates”.When it comes to the Schengen agreement,

Donald Tusk said that time is running out forit and that the situation is grave because cer-tain EU member states were unilaterally im-posing border controls. “Saving Schengen isa race against time. And we're determined towin it. Without effective border controlSchengen won’t survive. We must hurry, butwithout panic,” he said.

In this regard, Malta’s Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat said that he believed that theSchengen rules are outdated and need tochange. “Safeguarding borders is not build-ing Fortress Europe. We need rules whichwork for everybody," he said while criticis-ing member states that erect walls. He

pointed out that history has shown that suchmeasures are only short-term solutions.Mario Draghi the president of the European

Central Bank Mario Draghi told EU lawmak-ers that Europe's economy would strengthenif countries invest in efforts to cope with therefugee crisis.

Pr e s i d e n tM a r i e -

Louise ColeiroPreca who vis-ited France onthe invitation ofUNESCO thatcelebrated its70th Anniver-sary, told theLeaders’ For-um at the 38thSession of theUNESCO Gen-eral Conferen-ce: “Togetherwe must promote equality and justice for all. Together we must find ways of facilitatingand brokering peace. Together we must strive for the wellbeing of our world”During her speech, she also highlighted the major issues that world leaders should be fo-

cusing on in order to ensure the wellbeing of our world. These include; food security, genderinequality, access to education and threats to sustainability.

The President also pointed out that there must be a renewed commitment to safeguardhuman dignity and human rights, “not for the privileged few but for each and every one ofus, wherever we live and whatever our circumstances”. She went on to say that UNESCO’s role is a critical one and referred to it as a ‘guide and

a companion’ in this journey, adding that we need to see this moment in our history as anopportunity for the global community to uncover the root causes of inequality.

“We must openly and honestly explore thestructural inequalities that perpetuate harm-ful cycles of privilege and oppression and inthe process damage the lives of countlessmillions”.The President also made a heartfelt plea in

favour of the achievement of gender equal-ity, and called on those present to do all thatis within their power to eradicate poverty,diffuse conflict and ensure the equality of allmembers of the human family.

Two Teenagersarraigned over

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Two teenage boys, aged 17 and 18 werearrested by the Police in order to help

in the magisterial inquiry of an incidentduring the night of Saturday/Sunday in aPaceville night spot during which 74young people were injured and rushed tohospital when a glass banister at the exitgave way under the pressure of scores ofpeople trying to leave all at once down astaircase after the youths complained ofhaving difficulty breathing following whatat the time was thought to be a gas leak. Among the injured, who received treatment

- all between the ages of 13 and 25 – were a13-year-old girl, for head injuries and a 15-year-old girl with foot injuries. Others suf-fered from bruises, lacerations, fractures, aswell as head injuries. The 18-year-old youth was charged with

allegedly throwing a pepper spray cannis-ter that caused panic as patrons experi-enced shortness of breath and burning inthe lungs.

Police investigations and the Magistrateinquiry are ongoing, and in the wake of theincident, the directors of the company thatruns the establishment are facing courtproceeding.

Both the 13 and 15-year-old girls whowere critically injured in the incident leftthe Intensive Care Unit Tuesday. Onlyfour others were still receiving treatment.

In its assessment on Malta’s Draft Budget-ary Plan, the European Commission has

confirmed that Malta’s Budget 2016 is com-pliant with the Growth and Stability Pact,and believes that Malta’s growth rate of gov-ernment expenditure is in line with the ap-plicable expenditure benchmark.

Malta’s Budget 2016approved by the EC

Malta PM says Schengen rules are outdated, need to change

Ilu Ωmien ma jkollna daqshekk riΩenjifil-Parlament Malti – tlieta b’kollox.Ktibt fil-Parlament u mhux mill-Parla-

ment g˙ax tnejn mid-deputati attwalmentirriΩenjaw mill-grupp politiku tag˙hom umhux mill-Parlament.

L-a˙˙ar riΩenja kienet ta’ Marlene Farru-gia mill-Grupp Parlamentari Laburista. Sin-tendi din ir-riΩenja ng˙atat prominenzaqawwija mil-midja lokali.

Attwalment Farrugia kien ilha tikteb ar-tikli li fihom kienet tikritika lill-Gvern.Sa˙ansitra kienet dehret titg˙annaq mal-Kap tal-OppoΩizzjoni meta kienet saret il-protesta dwar il-bini tal-Universita`Amerikana f’Ωonqor Point, Wied-il G˙ajn.

Ir-riΩenja ta’ Farrugia ©abet diversi reaz-zjonijiet fosthom tal-mexxejja tal-partiti,tal-Prim Ministru u l-Kap tal-OppoΩizzjoni.

Tal-ewwel fi tweet kiteb:

Ftit jiem wara l-Val-letta Summit, bejn is-

27 u d-29 tax-xahar Maltase tospita 53 mexxej ta’pajjiΩ im-sie˙ba fil-Com-monwealth g˙al-laqg˙ag˙olja taç-CHOGM, biexhekk ˙afna pajjiΩi se jif-fukaw ˙arsithom fuqMalta. Imma minkejja l-impor-

tanza tag˙ha, jekk ikunhemm imqar dubji dwaris-sigurta’ il-Prim Min-istru Malti Joseph Mus-cat qal li jkun lest lij˙assarha.

Fid-dawl ta’ dak li se˙˙fi Franza u s-sigurta, waqtli Malta se tospita daqstantmexxejja dinjin, il-PrimMinistru qal li fejn g˙and-ha x’taqsam Malta, ir-re-goli tax-Shengen lib˙alissa huma sospiΩi, sejibqg˙u fis-se˙˙ anke g˙alwara ç-CHOGM.

Il-Prim Ministru qal lig˙alkemm Malta taqbelmal-prinçipju tal-movi-

ment ˙ieles fl-Ewropa,imma g˙andhom jinbidlur-regoli tax-Shengen.Dwar it-theddid tat-ter-roriΩmu, g˙al dab’o˙rasa˙aq li l-importanti linkunu kawti u attenti,iΩda m’ghandniex no˙ol-qu beΩg˙at g˙alxejn

F’Malta se jittie˙du l-passi kollha me˙tie©abiex tkun assigurata s-sigurta` f’Malta.Sostna li ç-çerimonji ma

jag˙mlux bih u mhux sejpo©©i s-sigurta’ tal-pajjiΩquddiem iç-çermonja.

Fl-a˙˙ar ©img˙a ©ewarrestati fl-Italja b’pass-aporti foloz xi Sirjani likienu fi triqithom lejnMalta. Dawn kellhompasaporti ta’ pajjiΩiEwropej.

Il-PM qal li ma kienhemm xejn li juri li dawnkellhom xi ˙sieb li jwet-tqu xi attakk, u ça˙adrapporti li kien hemm xirabta bejnhom u l-ISIS.

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It-tieletriΩenja!

G˙al Malta l-ewwelti©i s-sigurta` S’issa l-Gvern Malti qag˙ad lura

milli jing˙aqad mal-forzi nternaz-zjonali li qed jattakkaw il-Forzi tal-ISIS, iΩda kif li l-President FrançiΩFrancois Hollande ddikjara li pajjiΩujinsab fi gwerra u talab g˙all-g˙ajnunata˙t l-Artiklu 42.7 tat-Trattat Ewro-pew, qed tqum il-mistqosija jekk danifissirx li pajjiΩna wkoll jista’ isib ru˙uf'din il-gwerra.

Jidher li l-Gvern g˙ad m’g˙anduxtwe©iba g˙al din il-mistqosija billisorsi qrib il-Gvern qalu li "L-ewwel

trid issir it-talba minn Franza. Minhemm wie˙ed jie˙u idea ta' xi jkunuqed jitolbu".

L-artiklu msemmi jobbliga lill-istatimembri fl-Unjoni Ewropea biex joffrug˙ajnuna u jassistu b'kull mezz possib-bli meta stat ikun vittma ta' aggressjonifuq it-territorju tieg˙u. Aktarx li dinhija l-ewwel darba li xi stat membruqed jinvoka dan l-artiklu.

Sadanitant l-Alternattiva Demokra-tika qalet li l-Gvern Malti b˙ala StatNewtrali ma jista' qatt tag˙ti g˙ajnuna

militari.IΩda ma nafx jekk skont ir-regoli

li ntrabatna bihom meta d˙ala fl-Unjoni Ewropeja nistg˙ux ng˙idule jekk dawn jinsistu li g˙andnanibagatu g˙ajnuna militari.ApprovatQed ng˙id dan g˙aliex sa˙ansitraanke l-Ba©it tal-Gvern Malti masetax ji©i attwat li kieku l-UnjoniEwropeja ma approvatux.

Fil-fatt meta l-©img˙a li g˙ad-diet t˙abbar li l-UE kienet ap-provat il-Ba©it ta’ Malta kienhemm ˙afna li kkumentaw dwaril-fatt li ninsabu f’sitwazzjoni liGvern Malti jrid i©ib l-approvaz-zjoni tal-Unjoni Ewropeja ankebiex jonfoq flusu.

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Joseph Muscat @JosephMuscat_JMI met Marlene Farrugia and acceptedher resignation from the Labour Party. Iwish her all the best for the future -JM6:37 PM - 17 Nov 2015

Min-na˙a tieg˙u l-Kap tal-OppoΩizzjoni fitweet ie˙or iddikjara:

Interessanti t-tweets taΩ-Ωew© mexxejjapolitiçi. Tal-ewwel ma da˙˙al l-ebda poli-tika u awgura futur lil Farrugia; tat-tienibag˙at messa©© g˙al kollox politiku.

Attwalment kien hemm min interpreta l-messa©© ta’ Muscat, u dak li qalu xi depu-tati Laburisti, b˙ala wie˙ed li donnu libir-riΩenja ta’ Farrugia ma ©ara xejn: G˙al ˙afna deputati, ir-riΩenja ta’ Marlene

Farrugia ma tfisser xejn (netnews.com.mt). Min-na˙a l-o˙ra kien hemm min sostna li

l-messa©© ta’ Busuttil mhux wisq fattwalig˙ax x’issa ma tantx hemm sinjali li hemmxi membri o˙ra tal-grupp Laburista li wrewdifferenzi mal-Gvern, g˙alkemm Farrugiaqed tg˙id li hemm deputati o˙ra tal-Gvernli ma’ jaqblux mal-mod kif qed jitmexxa l-Gvern imma jibΩg˙u jitkellmu.

Simon Busuttil@SimonBusuttilThe ‘Movement’ built by @JosephMus-cat_JM has started to crack. People arebeginning to see through him.

Fejn nid˙lu g˙as-soltu kummenti lijag˙mlu l-qarrejja tal-©urnali elettroniçi, fil-waqt li kien hemm dawk li fa˙˙ru l-pass ta’Farrugia, kien hemm g˙add kbir li maqag˙dux lura jiktbu kummenti iebsa fil-konfront ta’ Farrugia li Ωgur ma jirreflettuxdak li kiteb il-Prim Ministru.

F’poΩizzjoni tassew antipatika huwapropju Ωew© Marlene Farrugia, it-TabibGodfrey Farrugia.

Farrugia mhux biss hu deputat Laburista,iΩda wkoll il-whip tal-Grupp ParlamentariLaburista... li fost kollox irid jara li metajkun hemm vot fil-Parlament, id-deputatital-Gvern ikunu fil-Kamra tal-Parlament ujivvutaw favur il-linja tal-Gvern.

Tistg˙u ta˙sbu s-sitwazzjoni ta’ Farrugiameta martu attwalment marret kontra dak likien qed jimbotta hu, u vvutat mal-Op-poΩizzjoni.Minkejja l-vot kontra u mal-OppoΩizzjoni,

ta’ Marlene, il-Gvern mhux biss Ωamm il-ma©©oranza, imma attwalment ©ab ma©©o-ranza ta’ 10 billi xi deputati Nazzjonalistima kienux preΩenti fil-Parlament.

Sikwit nisimg˙u bil-˙atra ta’ arçiprieti ukappillani fid-diversi parroççi ta’ Malta

u G˙awdex. Donna li da˙let sistema li l-Kappillani u l-Arçiprieti jinbidlu wara lijag˙mlu çertu snin. Biss jidher li g˙ad hemmfejn kappillani u Arçiprieti li qattg˙u sninmhux ˙aΩin fl-istess parroçça.Bla dubbju fost l-aktar arçiprieti li f’dawn l-

a˙˙ar snin dam imexxi l-istess parroçça kiendak tal-Parroçça tax-Xewkija f’G˙awdex, l-eqdem parroçça fost l-ir˙ula G˙awdxin.Mons Carmelo Mercieca, kien ir-rag˙aj ta’dan ir-ra˙al g˙all-43 sena u nbidel biss ftit tal-©img˙at ilu wara li ng˙ata ˙atra ©dida fil-

Kurja G˙awdxija. Postu ˙adu Mons Daniel Xerri (ritratt fuq)Sintendi tistg˙u ta˙sbu b’liema ˙e©©a x-

Xewkin assistew g˙aç-çerimonja tal-˙atratal-jikkunsidra li kienu biss dawk li g˙and-hom madwar ˙amsin sena jew aktar li kienuassistew g˙al çermonja b˙al din (tal-pussess)fil-Parroçça ddedikata lil San Gwann Bat-tista.


Mix-xena tal-˙ajja Maltija 2

Minn kumpanija falluta, bil-˙idma tal-Gvern, il-Gozo Channel dis-sena setag˙mel qlig˙ ta’ €900,000. Dan

t˙abbar mill-Minisru g˙al G˙awdex AntonRefalo waqt wa˙da mil-laqg˙at ta’ ‘Gvern lijisma’ li saret f’G˙awdex.

Sa˙aq li l-gΩira G˙awdxija llum g˙andhaekonomja b’sa˙˙iha u kummerç tajjeb, tantli saret “mutur ekonomiku tieg˙u nnifsu”. Is-sokta li grazzi g˙all-©id li n˙oloq, hemm dakimsejja˙ il-good feel factor’fost l-G˙awdxin.

F’aktar a˙barijiet tajbin g˙all-G˙awdxin,waqt li semma r-restawr taç-Çittadella fipro©ett li jiswa €14-il miljun u li qed jag˙tivalur miΩjud lill-gΩira, qal li l-Gvern qed ifit-tex li jinvesti f’niçeç li jag˙mlu sens u b’hekkG˙awdex illum sar g˙andu identita`

ekonomika ©dida. Lanqas ma naqas lijsemmi li permezz tal-iskola medika ta’Barts, f’G˙awdex, se jin˙oloq dak li sejja˙b˙ala medical hub.Il-Minisru semma wkoll g˙add ta’ inizjattivi

li qed iwasslu biex aktar turisti jΩuraG˙awdex, fi Ωmien fejn mhux soltu jΩuruh.Fost dawn hemm it-tnaqqis fin-noll tal-vapurg˙al çertu Ωmien u wkoll kif dis-sena fil-Mi-lied il-gΩira se tinbidel f’villa©© tal-Milied.

Óafna drabi j˙e©©una biex kemm jista’jkun ma na˙lux çerti riΩorsi, imma nir-

riçiklawhom. IΩda xi ˙a©a li qatt ma smajtjew bsart li tista’ ti©i riçiklata, hija t-toiletpaper.Biss o˙ro© il-g˙a©eb f’Malta jidher li kien

hawn persuna, tal-inqas hekk ©ie allegatminn Ωew©ha, li martu tant kienet os-sessjonata bil-flus li kienet tuΩa g˙at-toiletpaper li mbag˙ad bdiet tnixxfu biex ter©a’tuΩah.

Mhux biss, iΩda sa˙ansitra allega lifilg˙axija kienet titfi l-arlo©© biex matin˙eliex il-batterija u ma riditx tixg˙el id-dawl fid-dar.

Imma kemm praspar hux!!

Ma tantx ja˙sibhaF’dawn l-a˙˙ar snin donnu li l-akkuΩi ta’ind˙il mill-kleru, u speçjalment l-Isqfijietfil-politika ma tantx g˙adhom jidhru fl-istampa, g˙alkemm bit-tpaçpiç isir ˙afnakliem.G˙alhekk tweet xejn komplimentuΩa dwar

l-Arçisqof ta’ ex-membru parlamentari naz-zjonalista, il-mag˙ruf JPO (Jeffrey Pulli-cino Orlando) malajr sabet ru˙hafl-a˙barijiet.

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Kif dawn jistg˙u jaffettwaw lilek???

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VICI KAP GDID TAL-PN?Jidher li l-Arcisqof huwa determinat li jappoggjalill-PN f’kull opportunita` li tinholoq. Issa qieghedsahansitra jikkritika l-Gvern fuq is-sistema tad-dawl li ntuzat ghal Kastilja-kif ghamlet l-Oppoziz-zjoni. Jidher li ghandna Arcisqof li jifhem fid-dawlukoll. Ghandu dritt isemma lehnu, ovvjament. Izdabhala s-suppost raghaj tal-Kattolici kollha Maltinghandu jaghti l-impressjoni li qieghed ikun partigg-jan b’mod persistenti?

Din kienet ir-reazzjoni ta’ JPO wara li l-Arçisqof waqt li kien qed ikellem lil dawkli ggradwaw waqt il-quddiesa ççelebrata fil-konkattidral ta’ San Gwann, il-Belt g˙addakumment indirett fejn irrefera g˙al dik liqed ti©i meqjusa minn xi w˙ud b˙ala ˙sarafil-faççata tal-Ber©a ta’ Kastilja meta saruxi toqob biex jg˙addu xi wiajers tal-eletriku.

Kumment iebes li fortunatament waqafhemm billi l-Arçisqof ma g˙amel l-ebdareazzjoni g˙all-kumment.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton hasgiven strong hits that Australia may in-

crease its emergency intake of Syrianrefuges after he visited refugee camps inJordan. He said 4.2 million people leftSyria and seven million were internallydisplaced in the country and “its situationgetting worse”. One of the Abbott government’s last acts

was to announce that Australia would per-manently resettle 12,000 refugees fromSyria. Women, children and families frompersecuted minorities who were shelteredin Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey would takepriority. Abbott had also announced $44million in aid to supply refugees in theMiddle East with cash, food, water andblankets.

According to the 17th annual report for theFoundation for Young Australian using data

from the ABS revealed that it would take the av-erage Australian five years to find a full time workafter years of study. By comparison, it took the av-erage Australian just one year to find full timework after studying in 1986. The future leaders index released, found that out

of 5000 young Australians, two in three respon-dents were concerned about getting a job that hadthe potential for a career, while more than 50 percent felt the opportunities in their field weren’tstrong.

The report found that despite waiting up to fiveyears to get full-time employment, up to 25% ofyoung people did not use the skills they studied forand up to 70 % were studying for potentially auto-mated entry-level jobs that might not exist in future.

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Islamic State is weak;don’t fall for their strategy

They get you even overseas

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In comments that drew widespreadpraise across social media, Aus-tralian writer, academic, lawyer

and media presenter Waleed Aly (right)launched an impassioned plea for unityfollowing the Paris terror attacks. Hesaid that divisive actions of hate wouldserve only to help Islamic State.

Egyptian-born Waleed made hiscomments, on Network Ten's newsand current affairs television pro-gramme The Project, which he co-hosts. He said that IS's aim was tosplit the world into “two camps ... Aglobal war between Muslims andeveryone else”. He urged Australiansnot to fall for this strategy of divideand conquer.

“We are all feeling a million ragingemotions right now. I am angry withthese terrorists. I am sickened by theviolence and I am crushed for thefamilies that have been left behind,but, you know what, I won't be ma-nipulated. We all need to come to-gether,” adding that it is exactly whatIS doesn't want.

He went on to say: “If you're aMember of Parliament or a has-beenmember of Parliament preaching hateat a time when what we actually needis more love, you are helping IS.They have told us that... if you arejust someone with a Facebook orTwitter account firing off misguidedmissives of hate, you are helping IS.They have told us that.

“I am pretty sure that right nownone of us wants to help these bas-tards. Recent attacks and threatsagainst Muslims would serve to onlyaid IS's aims,” he said. “They want societies like France and

here in Australia to turn on eachother. They want countries like ours

to reject their Muslims and vilifythem.”Calling the organisation “weak”, he

said, “What we don't know yet is ifthe attack was planned, ordered orfunded by IS's leaders in Syria be-cause the problem is, this is what ISdo. They take credit for any act of ter-rorism on Western soil so they appearbigger and tougher than they actuallyare.”

He went on to say: “IS leaderswould be ecstatic to hear that Mus-lims have been reportedly threatenedand attacked in England, Americaand here in Australia because this evilorganisation has it in their heads thatif they can make Muslims the enemyof the West, then Muslims in France,England and America and here inAustralia will have nowhere to turnbut to IS.

“That was exactly their strategy inIraq. And now they want it to goglobal. It is both dumbfounding in itsstupidity and blood-curdling in itsbarbarity.”

After the carnage in Paris, the Australian Gov-ernment is more intent with passing the con-

troversial bill dealing with dual citizens andterrorists’ acts. Under the bill a person’s citizen-ship can be revoked if they act with intention of a“political, religious or ideological cause” or of“coercing or influencing by intimidation the gov-ernment”.

Under the criminal code, a person needs to haveboth these things in mind when he acted to be con-victed of a terrorist act.

The bill aims to prevent dual nationals who areoverseas from returning to Australia by automati-cally revoking their citizenship once authoritieslearn they have committed terror offence. Thegovernment made 26 changes after it largely lim-ited its scope, based on recommendation fromcross-party committee of MPs.

Maltese celebrity chef Shane Delia says thathis show, Shane Delia’s Moorish Spice

Journey is now screening in 160 countries. It ison SBS every Thursday at 8 pm. Shane is theowner and head chef of Maha Restaurant in Mel-bourne. He has been lighting up Melbourne’sfood scene for years. He is also the star of hisown TV series, author of Maha Middle EasternHome Cooking and a charity ambassador.

Shane opened his Melbourne restaurant Maha in 2008. Therestaurant is influenced by Shane’s Maltese heritage and ex-tensive travels through the Middle East, Iran, North Africaand Turkey. Renowned for its fresh, unrestricted MiddleEastern menu, Maha’s style is truly cutting edge.

Unsurprisingly, The Age Good Food Guide recognisedMaha’s unique style. The restaurant has continually earnedOne Chef’s Hat annually since 2009. Maha has recently un-dergone a $1 million renovation; coming of age as the homeof Mediterranean and Middle Eastern hospitality and cuisine.The success of Shane’s restaurant is a testament to his hard-

working, entrepreneurial attitude. In 2012,Restaurant and Catering Australia namedhim Australian Young Achiever of the Year.

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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Corn-wall were in Australia for a national five-dayvisit. They also visited New Zealand. The first

time Prince Charles visited Australia was 50 yearsago. It is the royals’ second trip to Australia as a cou-ple and Prince Charles’ 15th visit.On Remembrance Day, Prince Charles and his wife

Camilla attended the ceremony at the Australian WarMemorial in Canberra. The royal couple planted pinoak trees and placed poppies on the Roll of Honour.The national ceremony included a formal wreath-lay-ing, and students from each state and territory werepresent, representing the youth of Australia. This year's event focused on the sacrifice of Indige-

nous soldiers, with Indigenous author and historianJackie Huggins giving the commemorative address- the first Indigenous person in history to give an ad-dress at the ceremony. This year marks the 97th anniversary ofthe armistice that ended World War I in 1918.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month was originallyknown as Armistice Day; however, after World War II, the day be-

came Remembrance Day to commemorate all those who have diedin war. In 1997, governor-general Sir William Deane issued aproclamation declaring November 11 to be Remembrance Day,urging all Australians to observe one minute's silence.

Scientists have said that cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic chem-icals linked to cancer and other diseases, so they recommend food to

be fried in olive oil, coconut oil, butter or even lard. They found that heating up vegetable oils led to the release of high con-

centrations of chemicals called aldehydes, which have been linked to ill-nesses including disease and dementia.

Prof Martin Grootveld said that his research showed “a typical meal offish and chips” fried in vegetable oil, contained as much as 100 to 200times more toxic aldehydes than the safe daily limit set by the WHO.

97th Remembrance Day

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, during a Flame of Remembrance in Perth

Maltese celebrity chef

The trade union royal commission's toplawyer, Jeremy Stoljar has found that

Labor leader Bill Shorten did not engagein any criminal or unlawful conduct fol-lowing an exhaustive investigation into hisconduct during his years with the Aus-tralian Workers Union.

In a statement the commission said,“There is no submission that Mr. BillShorten may have engaged in any criminalor unlawful conduct.”Reacting to the findings, Mr. Shorten said

the political nature of the commission hadbeen exposed in recent months. This com-mission's cost taxpayers $80 million”.

Meanwhile, at a brief ceremony earlierin the month at the Maltese

Chancery student-participants presentedMalta’s High Commissioner to Australia,HE Charles Muscat with the Final Com-muniqué of the Canberra Model CHOGM2015 that in turn has been forwarded to thePrime Minister of Malta, Dr Joseph Mus-cat, who will be leading the Common-wealth Heads of Government duringforthcoming CHOGM summit.

Canberra Model CHOGM 2015 “YouthEmpowerment in the Parliament House”was organised by the Royal Common-wealth Society and the Common Youthway back in August 8 at the Old Parlia-ment House with the participation of 54students from the Australian National Uni-versity. The delegates were made to take on therole of one of the Heads of Government orForeign Ministers of the 53 Common-wealth countries, discussed issues con-cerning the Commonwealth and formulat-ed recommendations for the summit.

At the presentation, Mr. Kanti Jinna,President, Dr. Hugh Craft, v/Presi-dent, and Mr. Colin Milner of theRoyal Commonwealth Society ac-companied the students.

The High Commissioner acknowl-edged with admiration the students’interest in the Commonwealth and en-couraged them to continue workingtowards a better future for the Com-monwealth.

Deputy HC Dr. Joseph Pirottapointed out how important the Com-monwealth is in the new world order,where negotiations and discussionsare conducted no longer betweencountries but between blocs (of coun-tries). He encouraged the students tobecome diplomats for the Common-wealth.

Dr. Hugh Craft said that one does notneed to be a diplomat only for foreign af-fairs, but also for any common political,economic and social ideal that promises tobe beneficial to a people.

On his part, Mr. Kanti Jinna thanked allthe speakers and also congratulated Nis-hant Rao, Convenor of the CommonYouth, and wished him the best on his tripto Malta to participate in the CHOGMYouth Forum.


In the wake of the November 13 terror at-tacks in Paris that took the lives of 129 andleft others physically and emotionally in-

jured, three days later, Malta’s High Commissioner to Australia,H.E Charles Muscat, took part along with EU Ambassadors, ledby EU Head of Delegation H.E. Mr. Sem Fabrizi, in the commem-oration of the French terrorism victims and the minute’s silenceobserved in front of the lawn of the French Embassy in Canberra. Also present were the Governor General of the Commonwealth

of Australia, the Hon. Peter Cosgrove and Mrs. Lynne Cos-grove, other dignitaries and the general public.

Addressing the attendees, French Ambassador, H.E. Mr.Christophe Lecourtier thanked everybody for their show of sol-idarity in these hard and trying times. Those present for the cer-emony then laid wreaths, and afterwards, Mr Charles Muscat,along with the rest of the dignitaries signed the Condolencebook that was opened for the occasion.Flags at chanceries and residences of EU Member States were

flown at half-mast

The Community LanguagesSchools of NSW celebrated the

2015 Minister's Awards for Excellencein Student Achievement in Commu-nity Languages. The ceremony was

held at the Sir John Clancy Audito-rium University of NSW High StreetKensington. This year a large number of students

were nominated for Minister's Award.Their CommunityLanguage Schools,altogether repre-senting 36 differentlanguage groups,nominated 152 jun-ior students and 114senior students.About 120 students,their families andguests were invitedto attend the pres-entation.

Entertainment forthe evening wasprovided by the ‘Da-tong Chinese SchoolIncorporated’ whogave an excellentdrum performancecalled "HappyDrum Beats."

Ten students were honoured bybeing presented with the Minister'sAward for their outstanding achieve-ment in the study of a communitylanguage, their contribution to thedevelopment of intercultural under-standing and involvement in theschool and wider community.

The efforts of all the other studentswho were nominated were also ac-knowledged through the receipt ofHighly Commended, Commended orMerit Award.

A Highly Commended Award wasawarded to Caitlyn Lee for herachievements, while Amelia Dimechwas awarded a Merit Award. Bothstudents attend Skola Maltija Sydney.Caitlyn attends classes at RingrosePublic School and Amelia the classesat Rouse Hill Public School.

For information on Maltese lan-guage classes one should contact theschool via email: [email protected] or visit Facebookbook: www.facebook.com/skolamalti-jasydney.

The 2015 Minister's Awards Ceremony

Caitlyn Lee (left)and Amelia Dimech receiving theAward from Associate Professor Ken Cruickshank

Malta’s HC takes part in commemoration

Nishant Rao (left) presentingthe communique to Mr

Charles Muscat

of French terrorism victims

Canberra Model CHOGM Communique

There is considerable concernwithin the Maltese Australiancommunity in Australia re-

garding the future of the historicbuilding of Australia Hall locatedin Pembroke, Malta. This buildingwas constructed to provide a placefor entertainment and refreshmentsfor the thousands of ANZACs whowere wounded in Gallipoli and taken to Malta formedical treatment and convalescence.

Australia Hall was built by the Royal Engineers andtook two months to complete. The Governor FieldMarshal Lord Methuen officially opened it on January22, 1916. The Australian Red Cross contributed £2,000towards its construction cost. Some 58,000 soldiers had been nursed in various

hospitals and nearby tented hospitals specially erectedto deal with the large influx of wounded soldiers arriv-ing on the island. When the British military facilitiesin St Andrew’s Barracks were closed down in 1978,Australia Hall became the property of the Maltesegovernment.

In 1979 it was granted to the Labour Party on a longlease as compensation for the compulsory acquisitionof land that the party owned in Marsa for use byMalta Shipbuilding Corporation. Unfortunately, inDecember 1998 Australia Hall suffered severe damagewhen its ceiling of metal trusses and sheeting was gut-ted by fire. However, its sturdy four external walls stillremained standing. Today the building with no roof isin a derelict state, open to the elements and damageby vandalism.

In 2010 the Labour Party was taken to court for fail-ure to keep Australia Hall in good condition, as wasrequired under the 1979 contract. These charges weredropped in October 2013, after the Labour Party was

returned to government. On September 1, 2014, the Labour Party sold Aus-

tralia Hall and some surrounding land to a privatecompany for €582,343, an amount considered grosslybelow its market value. It was reported that no moneychanged hands on this deal, and instead, the LabourParty’s pending debts with the company were paid off.

While it is not known what the new owners of Aus-tralia Hall have in mind for the site, since 1996 thebuilding has been classified by the Malta Environ-ment and Planning Authority (MEPA) as a Grade 2building of historic, architectural and contextualvalue (as it forms part of a larger protected militarycomplex). Thus, development in the area is so far re-stricted.

The history of Australia Hall forms an integral partof Malta’s important role in ANZAC history. It is a fit-ting reminder of the valuable services provided bymany volunteer Maltese nurses and medical practi-tioners to thousands of Australian and New Zealandservicemen. Their efforts earned Malta the title of“Nurse of the Mediterranean”. We urge Prime Minister Dr Joseph Muscat to commit

the Maltese Government to the restoration of Aus-tralia Hall to its former glory as a monument to theexcellent longstanding relations between Malta andAustralia. We commend the Australian High Commissioner

H.E. Ms Jane Lambert for her efforts to save AustraliaHall and her contacts with the current owners to ex-plore restoration options and ensure that the buildingis not demolished. We wish her every success and trustthat the visit to Malta by Australian Prime MinisterMr. Malcolm Turnbull for the CHOGM meeting in No-vember will provide a timely opportunity for him toraise the matter with his Maltese counterpart.

(This article was first published in the MCCV News, Octo-ber 2015).

by VictorBorg

The future ofThe future ofAustralia HallAustralia Hall

Australia Hall in Pembroke

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The Australian HighCommissioner in MaltaH.E. Ms Jane Lambertduring a visit to Aus-tralia Hall



1. Il-manjierili bihom jitnis-sel il-Verb jis-sej˙u Forom.

2. It-Trilitterij i t q a s s m uf ’ G ˙ a x a rForom, l-Ew-

wel Forma hija Ewlenija u d-disg˙al-o˙ra huma mnissla.

3. L-ebda Verb ma jie˙u l-Foromkollha u g˙alhekk biex wie˙ed

jifhem a˙jar nie˙du b˙ala mudellil-verb Qatel.

4. Il-Forom tal-Verb Trilitteru hunadawn:

1. QATEL. EΩ.: ˙adem, laqa’ mexa.

2. QATTEL. EΩ.: ˙addem, laqqa’mexxa.

3. QATEK/QIETEL. EΩ.: qarar,siefer, qieg˙ed.

4. AQTAL. EΩ.: wera.

5. TQATTEL. EΩ.: tkabbar, tg˙ab-ba, tg˙ammed.

6. TQATEL/QTIETEL. EΩ.: t˙a-bat, tqieghed, tbierek.

7. NQATEL. EΩ.: nqabad, ntilef,ng˙o©ob.

NTQATEL. EΩ.: nt˙aΩel, ntre-ba˙, ntrefa’

8. QTATEL. EΩ.: xte˙et, mtela,ltaqa’.

9. QTAL/QTIEL. EΩ.: ˙dar, çkien,qras.

10. STAQTEL. EΩ.: sta˙ba, stag˙-©eb, stag˙na.

5. Il-Verb g˙andu wkoll il-Modjew manjieri u Tempijiet jew Ωmie-nijiet li fihom issir l-azzjoni.

6. Il-Modi tal-Verb huma:a) Indikativ (juri meta jsir l-g˙e-

mil)EΩ.: nikteb, ktibt, se nikteb.

b) Imperativ (juri kmand). EΩ.: ikteb, ag˙Ωel, g˙odd.

c) So©©untiv (juri xewqa, skop).EΩ.: Ridt li to˙ro© kmieni.

d) Kondizzjonali (juri g˙emilta˙t kondizzjoni).EΩ.: Kieku g˙idtli kont ni©inarak.

7. L-Indikativ juri g˙emil li qieg˙edji©ri jew li g˙ad irid ji©ri u dan jis-sejja˙ Imperfett; jista wkoll jurig˙emil li g˙adda, u dan jissejja˙Perfett.

EΩ.: Niekol (Imperfett); kilt (Per-fett).

(Aktar fil-˙ar©a li jmiss)

Biex tikteb Malti tajjebAktar dwar il-Verb: forom, modi u tempijiet

In response to a number of inquiries, The Voice of the Maltese wishes to advice that we cannow supply hard copies in colour of our magazine to our readers at a price. So anybody in-terested in acquiring copies of the magazine can communicate with us personally or byemail to: [email protected]. The magazine can also be delivered by post. As the costof postage varies one is kindly requested to get in touch with us to work out the details.

Readers can now request a printed copy of The Voice

The Maltese Community Council ofVictoria is conducting a survey to

obtain a picture of the Third Generationof Maltese in Australia. We are particu-larly interested in their knowledgeabout Malta and Maltese culture. Thiswill enable us to determine the degreeof culture maintenance among our thirdgeneration.

Teenage children (aged 10 to 17years), whose grandparents (or greatgrandparents) were born in Malta, areinvited to fill in the following question-naire. The survey questionnaire is alsoavailable for download from the MCCVwebsite.Completed forms may be returned as a

scanned electronic copy or in paper form.BY EMAIL: Scan the completed formand email it to the email address of

Prof Maurice Cauchi [email protected] POST: Post completed form to:Prof Maurice Cauchi, Maltese Commu-nity Centre, 477 Royal Parade,Parkville, Victoria 3052

The information provided will betreated in the strictest confidence.

Please pass this survey form and re-quest for survey participation on to yourchildren, friends and acquaintances.

Survey participants will be eligible towin one of five prizes of $100 each. Tobe eligible, participants are required tocomplete the survey form includingtheir name and email or postal ad-dress. The winners will be drawn fromeligible participants who submit a com-pleted survey form by not later thanNovember 30.

MCCV Survey on the ThirdGeneration of Maltese in Australia

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likajna fl-a˙har ˙ar©a ta’ TheVoice. Dakinhar tlabna lill-qar-rejja jag˙tu l-Mamma u l-G˙erqta’ dawn il-kelmiet.

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St Helena Maltese Australia SC

SATURDAT DECEMBER 19:Xmas function at Melrose Recep-tions, Tullamarine.

For more information: Phone Victor: 0412 99 13 25 or

Mary Abdilla: 03 (9370 51 64)

FEAST OF SAINT NICHOLAS

SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER 2015Good Shepherd Parish 130-136 Hyatts Road, Plumpton

(Opposite Shopping Centre)

3.00pm - Church ServiceFesta Mass in English. Principal Celebrant: Fr B Sant mssp assisted by: ParishPriest Fr G O’Dempsey and Fr C Borg mssp; Homily in Maltese by Fr B Sant mssp;The MCA Choir under the direction of Marisa Previtera

4.00pm - Procession: Our Lady Queen of Peace Maltese Band will play Religious MarchesFood for Sale: BBQ, Pastizzi, Kannoli, Nougat, Kinnie, Soft Drinks & Maltese Foods

5.00pm - EntertainmentDJ’s Tony & Paul from Maltese Radio–SWR FM Direct to Malta; OLQP band; Christmas Carols by the MCA Choir; Entertainment for Children too

6.30pm - St Nicholas Festa Committee Raffle is Drawn

7.00pm - Santa Claus ArrivesLollies and goodies given to all children

8.30pm Fireworks DisplaySpectacular Extra Special Fireworks Display by FX Display Co.

For further information call: Bill Schembri 0416 261 415 or Joe Fenech 0412 009 957Sunshine or hail – no problem we have a Big Hall

COME AND BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WITH YOU

The Xag˙ra Association of NSW Inc.INVITES YOU TO COME & CELEBRATE:

Australia Dayat a Dinner Dance on January 23, 2016

Venue: Mandavilla Function Centre1788 The Horsley Drive,Horsley Park

Food: 3-Course Meal, beer, wine, soft drinks, tea, coffee,pastizzi; also antipasti plus fruit platters

Entertainment: provided by Joe ApapContact: Josephine/Ray: 9627 4182, Mob: 0439 974 182

M'Anne Teuma: 9627 4641

G˙alkemm il-PBS ta’ Malta tfornilill-SBS fl-Awstralja bis-servizztag˙ha, il-qarrejja m˙e©©a li x’˙iniridu jid˙lu fil-website:www.tvm.com.mt u jsegwu l-a˙bar-ijiet ta’ Malta.

Din tkun a©©ornata l-˙in kollu bistejjer li jkunu qed ise˙˙u.

Mhux biss, imma min irid isegwidak li jkun g˙addej, kull filg˙odu˙in ta' Malta fuq il-website jit-tellg˙u wkoll l-a˙barijiet tal-jumta' qabel.

L-a˙barijiet tal-PBS (Malta)

The Presepju (Christ-mas crib) in Kurnell,the creation of two

persons from Mosta, Joe “il-Mosti” Deguara, who out-laid the money and VictorSammut who built it, willonce again be on display tothe public during the monthof December. Joe told TheVoice of the Maltese that as inthe past years there is al-ready a great deal of interestcreated, particularly amon-gst the Maltese wanting tovisit this work of art.As in previous years, there

is a new addition to the Pre-sepju something new addedand this year is no excep-tion. Joe went on to say thatafter a write-up in The Voiceof the Maltese magazine lastyear, “people came from asfar away as Queensland tosee it.”

The Presepju that took Vic-tor eight months to finish, isalready attracting interestfrom locals, while othersfrom St George and Suther-land Shrine have alreadybeen contacting Joe inquir-ing as to when this example

of Maltese culture would beon show. The Presepju will be open

for public viewing through-out December every Friday,Saturday and Sunday even-ing and then every eveningduring the last week leading

to Christmas Day - from7.00 p.m. till 10.00 p.m. -and by appointment for anyGroup wishing to visit dur-ing a time or day that bestsuits them. Joe can be contacted by phone

on: 0408 966 877.

The Presepju in Kurnell Joe Deguara andhis Presepju

IL-KLABB TAL-ÓAMRUN qed jorganizza CHERRYPICKING TRIP g˙al Orange is-Sibt 5 ta’ Dicembru.

Il-kowç titlaq fis-6.00 a.m. mill-klabb ta’ 100 Jackson Street,Marsden Park. PREZZ: $50 kull persuna li jinkludi

Morning Tea f’Bathurst.Tistg˙u tie˙du dinner (t˙allsu g˙alih)

mill-ORANGE RSL club.Aktar tag˙rif ming˙and George Zahra - mobile: 0407 434 651

On SBS RadioDay Time Analogue and Digital

Friday: 12:00-13:00 97.7fm SBS Radio 2Saturday: 14:00-15:00: 97.7fm SBS Radio 2To tune into digital radio you need a re-ceiver or device with a DAB+ chip. Tuningin is by station name not frequency. Digitalradio can also be heard via digital TV.

SBS Radio 2 is on Channel 38.The radio programmes can be accessed on-line (live or catch up) at sbs.com.au/mal-tese and via mobile phone, using the SBSRadio app. For television news fromMalta - SBS 2 TV on Thursdays andSundays at 8am.

Maltese Radio ProgrammesMELBOURNE, on 3ZZZ 92.3FM or onwww.3zzz.com.au. Mondays 5pm, Fridays5pm, Saturdays 10am.; Last Wednesday eachmonth at 1pm.MELBOURNE on 98.9 North West FM, eachFriday 6.00 - 7.00p.m. Presenter EmmanuelBrincat.MELBOURNE: STEREO 974 (93180930):97.4FM Wed (Maltese Magazine) & Thursday(Mer˙ba): 6.00pm to 8.00 pm Co-ordinator –Ray AnastasiIn SYDNEY, listen to the MCC radio pro-grammes on 2GLF FM 89.3. Saturdays 6 to 8a.m. Martese Caruana presents NostalgiaMusic; Sundays from 10.00 - 11.00 am: Il naMaltin. Both available on demand. Followsame procedure as for MCC programmes, exceptselect programe in reference.In BRISBANE listen to the Maltese Programon 4EB on Tuesdays 6.00 -8.15am; Sundays4.15pm to 5.15pmUNCLE SAM DJ (Maltese Radio) tune in tolink: www.unclesamdj.com

The SBS MALTESE NEWS L-A˙barijiet on SBS TV twice a week nationwide Sunday at8.00 am on SBS2 (Chan. 32); Thursdays at 8.00 am on SBS2

Isma’ l-programm tar-radjubil-Malti mill-Kunsill Maltita’ NSW minn fuq l-istaz-

zjon 2GLF 89.3FM.Jista’ wkoll jinstema’ On De-

mand minn fuq l-Internetwww.893fm.com.au

(On Demand >Ethnic >Maltese Council 11am)Il-programm ta’ sieg˙a nhar ta’ Óadd fil-11.00 a.m. ikun fih l-a˙˙ar a˙barijietminn Malta, muΩika, tag˙rif, kultura,avviΩi u su©©etti ta’ interess g˙all-Maltin

Tune In to Radio and Television

Saint Nicholas Festa Committee Events in 2016

Sunday March 13Fete

Sunday July 3Lejla Fil-Buskett

Sunday October 16 Fete

Sunday December 4 Festa

Maltese Programmes on TV and WebThe GDAY MALTAUSSIE SHOW on TVS is broadcast in Sydney

Every Saturday at 2pm. Repeats onMondays 5 pm and Tuesdays 7.30 amWatch direct via HYPERLINK:http://ww.tvs.org.au; http://ww.tvs.org.au

Community NewsCommunity News

Listen to John Borg & Glenn Cassar every Sat-urday at 1.00 p.m. on RADIO 2RRR 88.5FM oron the Internet - www2rrr.org.au ON DeMAND

Meetings of DayCare Maltese

Groups in NSWFairfield Active Maltese SeniorsMeets on the first Tuesday of the Month

from10:00am to 12 noon. The group meets in the Parish Hall, cnr

of Stella Street & The Boulevard, Fair-field Heights.

Maltese Seniors Central CoastYou need to contact our Welfare

Officer for an appointment.For all information and referral

matters one should call Censina Cefai:Tel: 02 439 000 12 or 0414 267 652

*(All Groups are Sponsored by The Maltese Community Council of NSW).Please contact the MCC Welfare Officer: Marisa Previtera JP on 0414 863123. The MCC offices are at 59b Franklin Street (corner with Young St)Parramatta West NSW(next to West Parramatta Primary School)

Daceyville Maltese SeniorsMeets on the last Wednesday of the

month in the Meeting Room One, No. 3General Bridges Crescent, Daceyville.Note: The Groups also arrange regular Bus TripsCome and join us and make new friends.

Merrylands Social Maltese SeniorsMeets every second Friday of the

month; Miller Room, Memorial AvenueMerrylands from 10.30am to 12.30 am

Llandillo Maltese SeniorsMeets on the first Wednesday of each

month at the Llandillo Community Hall,Seventh Avenue, from 11am to 1 pm.

Greystanes Maltese SeniorsMeets on the second Monday of each

month at the George Preca Centre ofOLQP Church, 198 Old Prospect Road,Greystanes from 10 am to 12 noon

The Sutherland & St GeorgeMaltese GroupOngoing: We meet every First Wednesdayof the Month from 10:00am-1:00pm

Our Meetings/Get Togethers are inter-esting, informative & entertaining. Come Join us and make new FriendsFor more information contact our Coor-dinator: Charles Mifsud J.P.Phone (02)9501 5525 – mobile 0421 662 298.

VIVA MALTAVIVA MALTA on COAST FM 96.3Community Radio in Gosford Central

NSW. Aired every fortnight from 6 pm -7 pm (Next is December 7).

Presenter: Nathalie Gatt. Web streaming on: www.coastfm.org.au.


One good turn deOne good turn de--serves anotherserves another

Dedication we have lots of;when it comes to time, we

find it as when dedicating oneselfto a cause, it’s there. A third in-gredient needed to produce anonline magazine such as The Voiceof the Maltese is financial. To off-set that, the production team hasbeen seeking sponsors to help usshare that burden with us.

Some have responded positivelyby advertising the services theyoffer to their clients on our publi-cation. More is needed, so we callupon others to follow.

In return, our readers are urgedto use the services offered by oursponsors.

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Community NewsCommunity News

The Maltese Community Council of NSW is conducting a computerclass at Maltese Resource Centre 59b Franklin Street, Mays

Hill 2145 NSW every Friday between 10.00 am-12.00 For moreinformation contact Em. Camilleri: 0409 744 376

Learn

Maltese!

MALTESE LANGUAGESCHOOL OF NSW

Classes are available for students from 6 years to adults at all levels of ability in theMaltese language. We have trained and experienced teachers qualified in

language teaching and with Maltese study credentials. Learn the Maltese language,the culture, lifestyle, cuisine, traditions and about the amazing history of the island.

Classes at: HORSLEY PARK - SEVEN HILLS - LUDDENHAM

For more information and enquiries Call Mary on 9601 2189Or email: [email protected]

Supported by the Minister of Education and Training and the NSW Community Languages Schools Programme.

Member of the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools of NSW; Member of the Federation of

Maltese Language Schools of Australia; Supported by 16 Maltese associations affiliated with the MCC

of NSW. The Maltese Language School of NSW is a Not-For-Profit organisation.

A Division of the Maltese Com-munity Council of NSW Inc.

PresentsChristmas Dinner 2015

Date: Saturday December 5Location: Mandaville Events Centre1788 The Horsley Drive Horsley Park

Time: 6.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.Menu: Buffet-style including soft dronks, dessert, tea & coffee

Beer, wine & spirits can be purchased from our licensed bar or BYO

Music: Provided by Manuel DJCost: $45.00 per guest

For ticket sale contact Sam: 0419781568/46841617Rose: 96285424; Elija: 96226047

Come and support our final fundraiser for 2015

St John Sydney Xewkija

Association

Id-direzzjoni ta’ The Voicet˙e©©e© lill-qarrejja lij˙ossu li, jew g˙andhomtalent g˙all-kitba, l-aktar bl-IlsienMalti, imma mhux biss, inkella lija˙sbu li bi ftit g˙ajnuna jistg˙ujrabbu l-kunfidenza g˙all-kitba, biexjekk u meta iridu, jew jitolbu l-g˙aj-nuna tag˙na, inkella sempliçementjibag˙tu x-xog˙ol tag˙hom lil: TheVoice of the Maltese biex narawh. Email address:[email protected] Jekk tkunu tridu wara nippublikaw

il-kitbiet tag˙kom.

Tinteressak il -kitba?

La Valette Social CentreChristmas Programme

THURSDAY December 24: 11.30 p.m.: Procession withbaby Jesus; Carols by La Valette choir under the directionby Mro. Victor Flordia. Mass sermon by Natasha Tatari-

noff followed by Midnight Mass.SATURDAY December 26: The Centre opens at

5pm.with normal trading. 8.p.m.Ghana (folk singing).Everyone is welcome.

. THURSDAY December 31: New Year’s Eve DinnerDance. $55 adults, $30 for children. Entertainment by

The Falcons. All welcome..For more information: La Valette: 9622 5847; Frances 0412

320 4320 or Antoinette: 9671 2992

Cherry Picking Weekend

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December $150/pp twin share, $175 single

Saturday December 12Leave Blacktown Workers Club at 9:15am andtravel to Greystanes for the second pick up at 9.30am. We then head toBathurst and stop for morning tea at about 11am (included).

Visit Abercrombie House and later in the day go to a local winery forwine tasting and Lunch (at your own expense). After lunch we checkin to the Motel. The evening is your free time.

Sunday December 13Start the morning with Breakfast (included). After breakfast, travel toRaglan Farm for Cherry Picking at 11:30 and pick cherries to our heartscontent. We will leave the farm around 1:00pm and go to Bathurst forlunch (at your own expense) and look around the town.

3:00pm: We board the coach and head back home. For bookings call: Maria on 0431 800 720 or Doris on 0419 420 915email: [email protected] Trip organised by Maltese Elderly Thanksgiving Day

The Maltese Language School of NSW invites appli-cations for Maltese language classes at the

Alfred Fenech Maltese Resource Centre located at59b Franklin Street (corner with Young Street) Mays

Hill (next to Parramatta West Public School). Both young and adult students may apply.

For more information contact Mary Pace-Feraud on 9601 2189or email: [email protected]

The Maltese Language School of NSW

Maltese RSL (sub Branch) calling forSERVICE/EX-SERVICE MEN/WOMENto join the Maltese RSL sub Branch

The Maltese RSL sub-Branch needmore Service/Ex-Service membersto continue as a sub-Branch. If we don’t have enough Service

members we will not be allowed tomarch on ANZAC Day as a sub-Branch under our own banners. If you are interested in joining, youcan write, call or email Doris Pocock(details below) who will send out theapplication form to you and the ad-ditional information required forjoining. Maltese RSL sub Branch PO Box 8280 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 Mobile: 0419 420 915 Email: [email protected]

Australia’s oldest active wrestler, Mal-ta-born George ‘The Hitman’ Julio re-tired from professional competition on

November 7, a few months before his 70thbirthday, in March when he took part in thefinal event, a tag-team cage match in front ofa loud crowd, presented by New AgeWrestling of which he was one of thefounders, in Albion.

George teamed up with Lobo vs Mad DogMcRea and Enforcer. George, cheered allthe way, won the fight (of course!)For the past 40 years, Mr Julio, who moved

to Australia ain 1963 to be a part of the WorldChampionship Wrestling promotion at the in-famous Festival Hall in the 60's and 70's, andstarted wrestling in 1968, has also been train-ing wrestlers at an indoor ring located in his

Sunshine North backyard. Nearly everywrestler in Victoria has gone to his gym.

In a studio where the walls are a veritablemuseum of historic wrestling posters, Julio,who says that wrestling is an art, has impartedhis wrestling wisdom to hundreds of students.He estimated that he has taken part in “maybethousands” of wrestling competitions himself.

During his colourful career, the Malta-bornJulio’s catch cry of ‘You shut up’ became aslogan which fans loved to chant. “I was aheel, a bad boy, I loved to work with thecrowd,” Mr Julio said. “I’m a bad boy in thering but outside that I’m a pussy.”Julio said he decided to retire last year, after

the wear andtear thatdecades of

wrestling had inflicted upon his body. He hassuffered a broken collarbone, torn triceps andknee injuries.

Around 10 years ago he had a quadrupleheart bypass but eight weeks later was backin the ring for a wrestling match.“Wrestling is like this. When you start wres-

tling it is like a disease, you get addicted,” hesaid.

After his retirement he would continue totrain students and spend more time with histwo-year-old grandson.“I would like to thank every wrestler I wres-

tled and the people who came to watch mewrestle,” he said.

Defending Champions, Hi-bernians defeated Balzan

3-2 in last weekend’s topmatch at the start of the secondround of the championshipand, also seemed to want replyto those who had written themoff after a somewhat disap-pointing first round. As a re-sult, they are back on topsharing the spot with Vallettawho had a comfortable 4-0 winover still pointless St Andrews.

Premier League competitionreturned after the break for theMalta national team’s disap-pointing 2-0 defeat (a goal ineach half) at the hands of Jor-dan in an international friendlyin Istanbul, Turkey.

Hibernians’ victory thanks tothree goals from set piecesconsiderably damaged Bal-zan’s hopes as due to the de-feat they drop four positions,to fifth in the standings thatnow have a more familiar lookabout it with four of the mostknown sides occupying thefirst four spots.Birkirkara were a disappoint-

ment. Nobody expected themto lose two points in a 2-2draw with Naxxar. They led 2-0 but conceded two goalswhile Naxxar were playingwith only 10 men.

Sliema’s season goes frombad to worse as they weredowned 3-2 by Tarxien and


Spor ts Spor ts

nalists ended Sydney FC’s unbeatenstart to the season. It was just Victory’ssecond win in their last 13 matchesagainst the Sky Blues in Sydney, dat-ing back to October, 2007.

Prior to this game, Sydney FC hadconceded only two goals in their fivematches. It was also the first time thisseason they had conceded a secondhalf goal.

The champions followed that winwith Saturday’s against Central Coastby 2-1 at AAMI Park, while Sydneyslipped further down the table and arenow fourth, as they could only figurein a scoreless away draw at PetthGlory, Victory’s opponents on Deem-ber 16.

The success elevated Victory towithin a point of leaders BrisbaneRoar who managed four points fromtheir last two games, a home win overPerth Glory and a 1-1 home drawagainst Melbourne City.

Malta’s Premier League Football

2-41-00-31-14-2

2-10-01-12-10-0

After 40 yrs, Malta-born wrestler George calls it a day

Full Results Day 7Melbourne V. v Central CoastPerth Glory v Sydney FCBrisbane R.v Melbourne C.West. Sydney W v Wellington Ph.Adelaide v Newcastle Jets Day 6Sydney FC v Melbourne V.Brisbane R. v Perth Glory Melbourne C. v West. Sydney WNewcastle Jets v Central Coast Wellington Ph v Adelaide U.

Hibernians v Balzan Birkirkara v Naxxar L.Valletta v St. AndrewsTarxien R. v Sliema W. Pembroke v Qormi Floriana v Mosta

RESULTS: Round 12

VallettaHiberniansBirkirkaraFlorianaBalzanTarxien R.MostaPembrokeSliema WNaxxar LQormiSt Andrews

12 8 1 3 23 11 2512 7 4 1 22 14 2512 6 5 1 28 12 2312 6 2 3 19 11 2312 7 2 3 19 12 2312 6 4 2 21 11 2212 5 3 4 17 13 1812 4 2 6 18 22 1412 4 2 6 11 17 14 12 2 2 8 11 30 812 1 3 8 9 18 612 0 0 12 6 33 0

7 4 2 1 12 6 146 4 1 1 12 6 137 4 1 2 10 7 137 3 3 1 8 6 127 3 2 2 8 7 117 3 1 3 12 13 107 2 2 3 13 14 8 7 1 2 4 9 14 56 1 1 4 6 8 47 0 3 4 6 15 3

Standing P W D L F A Pts

P W D L F A Pts

3-22-24-03-20-01-0

Australia A-League

Hibs back sharing the lead

Champions Melbouren Victory aretrying their best to retain the title

and their recent form has shwon theywill be making a go of it. Victoriesover former league leaders Sydney FCand last weekend’s home victory overCentral Coast have pushed them towithin a point of current leaders Bris-bane, and tehy have a game in hand.

In the fixture on Day 6 that perhapsmore than any other has come to de-fine the A-League, Victory won the36th edition of the so-called Big Blue,in front of a crowd of 16,000 at the Al-lianz Stadium. They defeagted SydneyFC 4-2, with four of the goals cominginside the first 28 minutes.Sydney led 1-0 and 2-1 before Kevin

Muscat’s Victory team won the clashand with Besart Berisha getting abrace.

Melbourne Victory’s success in thegame between last season’s grand fi-

Besart Berisha brace as Victory stun Sky Blues

George ‘The Hitman’ Julio: He says “Wresting is an art”

now occupy third from bottomplace in the table.

BrisbaneMelbourne V.West. SydneySydney FCNewcastle J.WellingtonMelbourne C.Central CoastPerth G.Adelaide

Standings in the league ladder

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