Western Sydney Malayalee Association had its first Ecumenical Christmas Carol Competition at the Redgum Function Centre, Wentworthville. Attended by around 300 people, this event was an excellent family get together too.

The program started with an acknowledgement to the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which the event took place. Before the programs kicked off, there was also a stand in silence for one minute, paying tribute to Sydney Siege victims Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson, eight children dead after a stabbing incident in Queensland and over 130 people (most of them innocent children) died after Taliban militants stormed an Army school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.