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  • Greece is better off outside the EU
    14 May 2012 Ilias Sourdie

    Freelance writer Ilias Sourdis gives us his reasoning behind why Greece should leave - and can survive outside - the European Union.

  • Medicine in the Byzantine Empire - part one
    10 May 2012 Dean Kalimniou

    In Byzantium however, we find traces of a sophisticated medical tradition that forms the basis for all medicinal practice today, Dean Kalimniou explores in this week's diatribe.

  • The nothingness of 'I am Hellene'
    8 May 2012 Protesilaos Stavrou

    The viral YouTube clip 'I am Hellene' is causing a stir in the online world. Here Protesilaos Stavrou gives his opinion as to why the content "disturbs" him.

  • PASOK and New Democracy: Still standing on Sunday?
    7 May 2012 Nick Malkoutzis (0)

    There is little doubt that Sunday’s elections will deal painful blows to both PASOK and New Democracy. The question, though, is whether they will be knockout blows.

  • Cafes of yore
    3 May 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    I am sitting in an inner city cafe, sipping a flat white.

  • Long distance voting
    2 May 2012 Nikos Konstandaras (0)

    Whatever happens in Europe, where the debate over how to change the terms of economic policy has begun, whatever happens in our elections on May 6, one thing is certain: it is we Greeks, and no one

  • Vitamin D, gift of Helios
    30 Apr 2012 Joanne Lock (0)

    Vitamin D deficiency is a growing health problem in Australia and worldwide.

  • Ibrahim Pasha Pargali and other Greeks
    25 Apr 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    Generations of Greek schoolchildren have been brought up upon stories of the blood-thirsty Egyptian Ibrahim Pasha whose solution to the Greek War of Independence was to plan the genocide of the ent

  • Greek society in a state of limbo
    19 Apr 2012 Franceska Megaloudi (3)

    Much has been said and written about the financial crisis in Greece and the devastating consequences it has had on people's lives.

  • Symbolic suicide
    17 Apr 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    "Hopefully it will be the last death of an innocent citizen.

  • Why we should all remember ANZAC Day
    13 Apr 2012 Steve Kyritsis (2)

    On this 97th anniversary of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops at Gallipoli, we commemorate the event with special sadness because for the first time, the men who made

  • Ton Vaion (Palm Sunday)
    10 Apr 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    «΄Ηρθ'ο Λάζαρος, ήρθαν τα Βάγια, ήρθεν κι ο Χριστός από την Βηθανία...» goes the Epirot Palm Sunday carol.

  • The March
    5 Apr 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    "Why is it called a march?" my nephew asked as I passed a kaltsodeta around his foot and secured it under his bestockinged knee.

  • The role of the Greek diaspora
    3 Apr 2012 Aphrodite Bouikidis (1)

    The frequency of often superficial or misleading international coverage of Greece's economic crisis inspired recent commentaries about the role of the Greek diaspora.

  • Kony 2012: Greek aid worker exposes the other half of the Ugandan story
    1 Apr 2012 Fragkiska Megaloudi (0)

    It seems that everybody talks about Joseph Kony these days.

  • Dreams of Clay, Drops of Dew: The life work of Dina Amanatides
    29 Mar 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    "Tonight a candle came alight/ in my soul, burning for all of us./ Atonement for the actions of the powerful!/ For Peace, who mourns and wails!" (Bitter Resurrection, Dina Amanatides).

  • 1204 - 2012, lest we forget
    26 Mar 2012 Dr Edward Spence (1)

    Before the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, another less known but equally major catastrophe shook the Hellenic Empire of Byzantium to its foundations.

  • In search of a leader
    23 Mar 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    "Our race is a great one. We have just been unlucky not to have proper leaders.

  • Consumerism and poverty
    22 Mar 2012 Andreas Chrysafis (0)

    Unregulated globalisation driven by an unquenchable thirst for consumerism can be considered as one of the many contributing factors to the ravaging socio-economic turmoil of modern times.

  • A new ethic: Not much discipline in party divisions
    16 Mar 2012 Dr Nick Economou (0)

    Something odd has occurred in Australian politics.

  • New migrants
    14 Mar 2012 (0)

    You could always tell the neofermenoi (new migrants) apart from other Greek Australians in the eighties and nineties.

  • Antipodes Festival: the witching hour
    9 Mar 2012 Dean Kalimniou (0)

    One of the consequences of the Panepirotic Federation of Australia constructing a re-enactment of a traditional Epirotic home for the Antipodes Festival, complete with workable loom (and traditiona

  • Lightining, Zeus and law enforcement
    5 Mar 2012 (0)

    In a recent press release, Amnesty International called for increased restrictions on police use of electricity-conducting weapons (or 'tasers' as they have become widely known).

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