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Features

  • Ancient Greek still spoken on Turkish mountains
    20 Sep 2012 (0)

    The real shock is in hearing the language because what I hear is ancient Greek.

  • The reel fairy tale
    18 Sep 2012 Dimitra Markogiannaki (0)

    The Astor Theatre was a cultural hub for early Greek migrants to maintain their language and identity through film and music.

  • Greece shells out for Germany, lends Olympic treasures
    17 Sep 2012 Catherine Hickley (0)

    The idea of Greece making whopping loans to Germany might sound far-fetched as the debt-laden home of the Olympic Games staggers from one bailout to the next.

  • Hidden stories of a Melbourne club boy
    14 Sep 2012 Maja Jovic (0)

    Greek Australian author Christian Clarke delves into another world in his first novel A Synthetic Illusion - a story about drugs, clubs and the sex industry

  • Through hope, miracles blossom
    13 Sep 2012 Anastasios Barbadonis (0)

    19-year-old Priscilla Mallis is living up to her middle name Hope, and lives with the hope she will receive a lung transplant in order to survive.

  • Unregulated taxi clubs face the axe
    12 Sep 2012 Michael Sweet (0)

    Quasi-insurers are to be culled under the Allan Fels Inquiry recommendations, as the scandal surrounding taxi insurance in Victoria is revealed.

  • Greece is crumbling - is there any way out?
    11 Sep 2012 Tom Winnifrith (1)

    Greece’s ties to the euro, along with four decades of mismanagement and corruption, means unimaginably difficult reforms.

  • Lion of Crete's story to be told on film
    10 Sep 2012 Michael Sweet (0)

    Australian and NZ producers unite to create a $6m feature film portraying the exploits of ANZAC WWII soldier Dudley Perkins.

  • A family affair
    7 Sep 2012 Penni Pappas (0)

    Paul Capsis brings to life the quintessential Australian story in his most important work to date - Angela’s Kitchen.

  • Building better futures out of Melbourne’s estates
    5 Sep 2012 Delima Shanti (0)

    Education might be the key to a bright and successful future, but for some young people this basic rite of passage most take for granted is hard to come by.

  • A Cretan mystery revealed
    4 Sep 2012 Michael Sweet (0)

    The identification of two wrecks in western Crete sheds new light on a vital chapter of the ANZAC story during the 1941 Greek campaign.

  • Spinalonga Greece’s former leper colony breathing new life
    31 Aug 2012 Marcus Megalokonomos (0)

    The islet of Spinalonga - less than eight kilometres from Aghios Nikalaos - is still a secret that remains to be discovered.

  • The modern Ithaca of Noris Ioannou
    30 Aug 2012 Maja Jovic (0)

    Exploring shifting self-identity from the perspective of the migrant.

  • Greece - “an unsafe environment for migrants”
    29 Aug 2012 (1)

    Human rights groups have condemned recent police crackdowns in Greece.

  • Assimilation is a dirty word
    28 Aug 2012 Penni Pappas (0)

    As the series Go Back To Where You Came From is set to air tonight, Kon Karapanagiotidis implores the Greek community to talk about their own migration experience.

  • Artist with no boundaries
    23 Aug 2012 Maja Jovic (0)

    Maja Jovic speaks with Greek Australian artist Stelarc who combines art and modern technology and the body in his own brand of sometimes shocking performance art.

  • A legal fight for love
    21 Aug 2012 Penni Pappas (1)

    A bungle by the Greek Orthodox Church 26 years ago left Maria and Harry Gruber having to prove their 26 year marriage to the courts.

  • The English Athenian
    20 Aug 2012 Michael Sweet (0)

    Sofka Zinovieff’s new novel The House on Paradise Street passionately describes how Greece’s past inevitably shaped its present.

  • Lemnos - timeless mateship
    16 Aug 2012 Marcus Megalokonomos in Greece (1)

    It was from the coast of Lemnos that the first ANZACs embarked on the Gallipoli campaign forever forging a partnership between Greece and Australia.

  • Tell your post-war migrant story
    14 Aug 2012 Penni Pappas (0)

    The National Archives of Australia need the help of the Greek community to identify people on their new website

  • Alex Mavroidakis - Australia’s Big Brother
    13 Aug 2012 Penni Pappas (0)

    After a four year hiatus, reality tv show Big Brother is back for 2012, with Alex Mavroidakis in the top job

  • Losing the plot
    13 Aug 2012 Penni Pappas (0)

    As land for burials becomes scarce in Victoria, members of the Greek community are buying their last resting place... whilst alive

  • The story of King Con
    8 Aug 2012 Michael Sweet (0)

    Michael Sweet talks to the legendary Queenslander whose rags-to-riches story, and how he shared his wealth, is the stuff of real inspiration.

  • A Greek presence in the Pacific rim
    2 Aug 2012 Professor George Kanarakis (0)

    The life of George Lucas Adamopoulos - newspaperman, industrialist, educator and diplomat.

  • A different light
    31 Jul 2012 Delima Shanti (0)

    Christopher Boots - short for Boutsinis - is a maker of lights. But the lights he makes are a far cry from your run-of-the-mill fluorescent globes.

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