Dean Kalimniou
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Artist Katrina Ginis and Daphne
I’ve always been troubled by the myth of Daphne and Apollo. A story of pride, lust and loss, it seeks to explain how the laurel tree came into being. Pursued …
Revolution Exported: Greeks who fought for Serbia
Just prior to his death by strangulation in the castle of Belgrade, Serbia, Greek visionary Rigas Pheraios is said to have uttered the immortal words: “I have sown a rich …
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A Greek history of great plagues
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a …
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Communion conundrum, Orthodoxy and Archbishop Makarios’ communique
If you are an average Greek Orthodox Christian in Australia, chances are that you will on average, take communion, only once a year, just before Easter. It seems therefore strange …
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Church, communion, coronavirus conundrum
If you are an average Greek Orthodox Christian in Australia, chances are that you will on average, take communion, only once a year, just before Easter. It seems therefore strange …
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Antipodean goats, Giota and other musicians on Lonsdale Street
“Giota, who?” people in the crowd were asking themselves. “Γιώτα Νέγρα,” (the Negro) one of the Antipodes presenters, announced on stage. I was viewing Giota Negka’s keynote Antipodes concert from …
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Byzantine ‘New England’, a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony
Mention the words “New England” and the mind conjures up images of privileged white adolescents being incited by non-compliant with the directives of the Education Department teachers, to rip pages …
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Greek Youth Summit: Keeping young people involved in the community
“The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants of the households. They no longer rise when …
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Beyond 200: Greece 2021 Independence logo revealed – but does it express the Revolution?
Rigas Pheraios, in his famous pre-Revolutionary poem: Thourios, conceived of the Greek revolution as a movement that would unite peoples of all creeds and colours against tyranny and intolerance. He …
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Diatribe: Re-mooting multiculturalism, and the contradictions of foreign languages in Australian classrooms
“The anaemic responses to multicultural policy by Labor and Coalition since the mid-90s, that Dr Aly alludes to, has allowed race and new identity politics, born in the US, to …