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Dean Kalimniou

Dialogue

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 …

Life

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

Life

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

Dialogue

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 …

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