Dora Houpis
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IBAC sealed Premier’s downfall, but Andrews’ COVID-19 response will be what defines him
Daniel Andrews’s fate was sealed on Wednesday October 6, 2021. That’s when the “Age” reported that the Victorian Premier was being investigated by the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) regarding …
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Caring for elderly parents Greek style
My Greek parents’ house is like a foreign country: they do things differently there*. The hot water sticker is on the cold tap and the cold water sticker is on …
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A victim of circumstance: a grandfather’s story of 23 years without his family
Pamela Gonos the family history enthusiast now understands why it took her grandfather twenty five years to bring his son to Australia from Greece. Gonos knew nothing about her grandfather, …
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From little boy who read his big brother’s medical books to GP trailblazer
The fig tree Evdoxia Malios planted in her son’s new GP clinic 50 years ago is still there. But, the sunroom where she met other elderly Greek women is long …
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The polling booth with a Greek flavour and migrant history
“There is a polling booth near the Greek church around the corner,” the Richmond newsagent owner said. “Try there.” On polling day, in inner-city Melbourne, on Saturday 21 May, at …
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Dear Diary, I got COVID-19 today
Knocked down, locked down and feeling down. Welcome to COVID-19. Welcome to mandatory isolation. I knew I had coronavirus two days before the Victorian Health Department notified me. I had flu-like symptoms when no influenza …
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A Greek soldier’s picture and second-hand stories stir memories of an Asia Minor catastrophe
Aunt Hrisanthi sat in her village house, in Nea Vrasna, on a hot summer’s day in northern Greece with a photo album on her lap. She caressed the album’s cover …
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Dora Houpis sees more in the classical Greek alphabet than COVID-19 ‘variants of concern’
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced in May 2021 it would use the letters of the classical Greek alphabet to identify COVID-19 “variants of concern”. Doing so was a simple, …
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Only a handful of diners braved the cold in Oakleigh this afternoon
A handful of diners braved the wind and cold to eat outside at Melbourne’s famous Hellenic precinct, in Eaton Mall, in Oakleigh, this Friday evening, as Victoria opened up at …
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Saying ‘yes’ to ‘ohi’ and making Lonsdale St Greek again
“The best thing to do is get vaccinated.” The second best thing to do is to lift “the curfew”. The third best thing to do is to “get out of …