The fear of probable alienation was obvious. A small group then approached the Committee of WASLA and met them at which a proposal was put to them to accept our new group as an allied but independent faction. However, that was not accepted by WASLA.

The writer sees the need to rigorously emphasize that, at any stage, there were absolutely no political allegiances with any Sri Lankan politics of any nature, or any other realities of domestic political climate, which influenced the initiation and thereby formation of the SLCSWA. The reasons were purely local, in that as described earlier, to meet the needs of the new migrants, to assemble regularly, and enjoy the life in Australia by contributing and sharing the benefits equally as a group within the progressive Australian Multiculture.

3. Successful applicants, once the Grant has been utilized, should submit a Report, along with proof of payments, and the certificate issued by the Incorporations Association under the Act, by the relevant authority to the State Government Funding Authorities.

1. An operative Constitution should be attached to the Final Report.

As stipulated, one other major task was the formulation of the Constitution which outlined primarily the Mission and Aims and Objectives of the Group, along with all other Rules of operation and Regulations of how the business of the organization be conducted. This document also had to be submitted with the Registration Form to the Authority at the time of the registration.

The task of formulating the Constitution was also undertaken by the writer. To accomplish this, the writer did research at all available channels, but the staff at the Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission was the helpful in guiding the writer to access information available at their library.

(To this day, the writer is pleased to see that, with only a few minor resolutions, the SLCSWA has adhere d to the original Constitution formulated, which was adopted at the first General Meeting held in July 1987.)

All the above conditions were met, and the registration was completed in June 1987.

One other important thing to record is that a postal address had to be given to the Funding Body receive notices of the progress of the application and the writer took the decision to use her own home address with approval from other interested community members who encouraged the process.