This particular Sophoclean tragedy revolves around the great medieval city of Trapezous in the Pontus region of Asia Minor.

“Greek political parties, regardless of where they reside upon the political spectrum have absolutely no right to interfere in the affairs of the Greek Australian community”.

“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red…”

‘Multiculturalism is like a marriage: you have to remind each other how good it is’

“Graffiti is not about clean lines, pretty colors and beautiful blends. Graffiti is my life’s turbulence exploded on a wall.” Mint Serf.

Of all the obscure and yet impossibly implausible Greeks that have graced the pages of history, perhaps the most alluring is Constance Hierax, or Phaulkon – literally ‘the Falcon’.

“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory of this there is no doubt.” Orhan Pamuk.

From the ‘80s to now, Dean Kalimniou looks at how perceptions and stereotypes have changed for Greeks and Australians

Dean Kalimniou looks at the life of the young Australian monk, Father Theophilos who lives in the monastery of Saint Catherine’s in the Sinai Peninsula.

In this week’s diatribe, Dean Kalimniou looks at his own experiences with SAE and how Greeks of the diaspora can be treated as Greeks rather than strangers.