Dora Houpis
Features –
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 …
News –
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 …
Dialogue –
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 …
News –
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 …
Dialogue –
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, …
News –
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 …
News –
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 …
News –
Melbourne lockdown ends, but opening up isn’t easy
On Friday morning, Melburnians woke up to the end of the city’s sixth lockdown. At midnight, there were cheers from balconies in downtown Melbourne. Euphoria was justified. Since March 2020, …
News –
Signs, signs, everywhere a ‘no smoking’ sign
Outdoor diners will be greeted with 38 “no smoking” signs when they sit down to eat in Oakleigh’s Greek precinct tomorrow as Victoria’s sixth lockdown ends. An audit by Neos …
Pfizer jabs available including at Prahran’s Greek church hall, as elderly Greek Aussies do it like Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Eighty-eight-year-old Oakleigh residents, Panagiota and Spiros Houpis gave the thumbs up to getting their first Pfizer vaccination, at an Oakleigh clinic, in Melbourne’s south-east, today Monday 18 October. The Greek …