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Opinion

  • Greeks are not rude, just more human
    30 Aug 2010 Fotis Kapetopoulos (0)

    "They are rude, pushy and loud," said a young Greek Australian I met in Greece.

  • Who will take responsibility for Labor's disaster?
    30 Aug 2010 Dr Nick Economou (0)

    Federal Labor leader Julia Gillard can thank the conventions that underpin the Westminster system of government for the fact that she is still Australian prime minister (albeit in 'caretaker' mode).

  • A Greek community on the boundary
    30 Aug 2010 Michael C Scott (0)

    Some of the most extraordinary remains of any Greek settlement still surviving to this day can be found in modern-day Libya.

  • Jacques-Louis David , Death of Socrates
    Greek philosophy: Socrates
    23 Aug 2010 Nick Trakakis (1)

    Socrates, the best known of the ancient Greek philosophers, is renowned for his skill in argumentation and moral integrity.

  • Venus Braschi, a Roman variant of the Knidian Aphrodite, Munich Glyptothek.
    How did Praxiteles see me naked?
    17 Aug 2010 Michael C. Scott (0)

    Around 330 BC, a Greek sculptor named Praxiteles was commissioned to create a sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite by the island of Kos.

  • Mirrors and distortions in Greece
    16 Aug 2010 Nikos Konstandaras (0)

    Greece is living through a revolution, the first real attempt to set the country on course toward a viable future, and it is only natural that this will provoke widespread disruption and public rea

  • St Shirley of Mt Waverley
    16 Aug 2010 Chris Fotinopoulos (1)

    On August 15, the Christian faith commemorates Mother Mary’s ascent into Heaven.

  • Tony Abbott. John Howard
    The Coalition campaign is coming off the rails
    16 Aug 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    Something odd has happened to the federal election campaign. After being in the ascendancy for two weeks, Liberal leader Tony Abbott and his party seem to be losing their grip on the election.

  • Julia Gillard has her work cut out for her
    Gillard's biggest challenge revealed
    9 Aug 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    With only a couple of weeks to go until polling day, the 2010 federal election is going to be what it was always going to be - a very close affair.

  • Oh Paul, where art thou?
    9 Aug 2010 Jeana Vithoulkas (0)

    On the ABC program Q and A last Monday night, a man called Bobby Whitfield from the African community in Queensland confronted the politicians on the panel.

  • The Homecoming-An Expat Returns
    9 Aug 2010 Lambros Karavis (0)

    It's late on a weekday evening at one of Australia's metropolitan capital cities.

  • Michael C. Scott
    Inventories of the ancient world
    3 Aug 2010 Michael C. Scott (0)

    Inventory lists may sound pretty boring, mundane and run of the mill. But the ancient Greeks liked their lists and one of the most interesting kinds of list was the inventory list.

  • A Greek response to Turkey’s current neo-Ottomanist diplomacy
    2 Aug 2010 Nicolas Mottas (1)

    The recent violation of the Greek continental shelf by two Turkish research vessels, Cesme and Piri Reis, brought the Athens-Ankara relations back to the headlines.

  • Australian Hellenic Council looks to younger generations
    2 Aug 2010 Ian Pelekanakis (0)

    The Australian Hellenic Council (AHC) has taken steps to significant steps to involve second and third generation Hellenic Australians in terms of policy formulation, research and logistical assistanc

  • Julia Gillard
    Government likely to be returned in winter election
    26 Jul 2010 Dr Nick Economou (0)

    As she promised at the press conference she gave immediately after deposing Kevin Rudd as the leader of the Labor party, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called a general election for August 21- a

  • Micheal C Scott
    Inventories of the ancient world
    26 Jul 2010 Micheal C. Scott (0)

    Inventory lists may sound pretty boring, mundane and run of the mill. The ancient Greeks liked their lists and one of the most interesting kinds of list was the inventory list.

  • It’s the person not the gender that matters
    19 Jul 2010 Jeana Vithoulkas (1)

    On the day Julia Gillard was anointed to the position of Prime Minister, a male friend called me.

    "You must be very happy about this?"

    "Must I?"

  • Coffee, cakes and contentment
    19 Jul 2010 (1)

    A homeless man lies on a sheet of cardboard just outside the fence of a primary school.

    His long, bushy grey beard signals his age. He sits up to adjust his blankets.

  • Election maths underpins Gillard's Asylum seeker policy
    13 Jul 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    Julia Gillard's ascendancy to the Labor party leadership and, as a consequence, the prime ministership of Australia was expedited by factional convenors at the behest of a panicky back-bench with t

  • Greece's Georgios Samarasis doing his best to revive the Farrah Fawcett
    Mundial 2010
    22 Jun 2010 (0)

    Here we are in the second week of the World Cup and the craziness is starting to mount.

  • Womens' rights in the ancient world
    15 Jun 2010 Michael C Scott (0)

    The ancient historian Thucydides once wrote that "the greatest glory [of women] is to be least talked about among men, whether in praise or blame."

  • Greek history and the enticing chimera of unity
    14 Jun 2010 George Papadopoulos (0)

    This contribution was originally intended to be entitled ‘a ramble through the history of the Greeks’ because Greece itself and therefore Greek history meaning a history of Greece, is a relatively

  • Renegotiate the IMF-EU bailout
    14 Jun 2010 Nicholas Mottas (0)

    Thirty-six years since the restoration of Democracy, Greece passes its most severe financial and social crisis.

  • This summer we travel to Greece
    8 Jun 2010 Apostolos Zoupaniotis (0)

    This is a difficult time for our beloved Greece.

  • Giorgos Alkaios & Friends
    "OPA": the battle to lose Eurovision 2010
    8 Jun 2010 (0)

    Each year the Eurovision song contest reaches new levels. New levels of tackiness, embarrassment and complete lack of talent.

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