Dean Kalimniou
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Diatribe: Pay-roll perplexity
I can’t drive past our community day schools, Alphington Grammar, St John’s College and Oakleigh Grammar, without feeling an immense sense of pride and achievement. Visiting Oakleigh Grammar the other …
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Diatribe: Cretan Collaborators
The other day I attended the commemoration of the Battle of Crete at the Shrine of Remembrance. In a solemn and poignant ceremony, members of the Australian and Greek armed …
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Genocide recognition in Tasmania
To paraphrase a certain Marxist, a spectre is haunting Australia. The spectre of Genocide Recognition. South Australia was the first Australian state to officially recognise the genocide of the Armenians, …
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Diatribe: The other voice
The Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians as the First Peoples of Australia and a formal acknowledgment of the manner in which their land was taken from them by the colonialists …
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Diatribe: Soteriology
The reader finds the diatribist this week outside Westminster Abbey, seeking admittance to the coronation of King Charles. The various misleading rumours that have gone more viral than an email …
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Diatribe: Carrying on about Cleo
You find me enmeshed in the throes of issuing proceedings against the International Astronomical Union (IAU), an ostensibly benign and inoffensive body that purports to promote and safeguard the science …
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Diatribe: Post Paschal Blues
I am loathe to admit, but I feel rather down post-Easter, even though it is the most joyous occasion in the traditional Greek Australian’s calendar. A friend, who is a …
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Diatribe: The 1 2 3 of Greek Easter
It was the poet Angelos Sikelianos who referred to Easter as «Πάσχατων Ελλήνων» (Pascha of the Greeks), and rightfully so considering that even in this secular age, Easter is arguably …
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Diatribe: Deconstructing Zalongo
“You’re from Epirus,” an enthusiastic mother exclaimed at the recent 25 March celebrations. “I love that Zalongo song. The one which goes «στη στεριά δε ζει το ψάρι/ούτε ανθός στην …
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Diatribe: Pushkin’s tumultuous love affair with the Greek Revolution
Despotic miscreant I hate you and your throne! Tremble o tyrants of the world ! And you, unwakened slaves, listen: Be strong, take courage, and revolt! These are the kind …