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Opinion

  • 30 Aug 2010 (0)

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

  • 30 Aug 2010 (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).

  • 30 Aug 2010 (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
    23 Aug 2010 (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.
    17 Aug 2010 (0)

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

  • 16 Aug 2010 (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

  • 16 Aug 2010 (1)

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

  • Tony Abbott. John Howard
    16 Aug 2010 (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
    9 Aug 2010 (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.

  • 9 Aug 2010 (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.

  • 9 Aug 2010 (0)

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

  • Michael C. Scott
    3 Aug 2010 (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.

  • 2 Aug 2010 (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.

  • 2 Aug 2010 (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
    26 Jul 2010 (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
    26 Jul 2010 (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.

  • 19 Jul 2010 (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?"

  • 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.

  • 13 Jul 2010 (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
    22 Jun 2010 (0)

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

  • 15 Jun 2010 (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."

  • 14 Jun 2010 (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

  • 14 Jun 2010 (0)

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

  • 8 Jun 2010 (0)

    This is a difficult time for our beloved Greece.

  • Giorgos Alkaios & Friends
    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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