Dora Houpis
News –
Oakleigh restaurants get ready to reopen on 1 June – and owners get creative to make it work
Owners of two big restaurants in Oakleigh’s famous Hellenic precinct in Eaton Mall, this week welcomed the State Government’s easing of coronavirus trading rules with both saying they will reopen …
Dialogue –
Unprecedented results of COVID-19 lockdown
Many things about COVID-19 and the subsequent worldwide lockdowns have been unprecedented. Even the frequency of the use of the word itself since March has been unprecedented. Below is a …
Dialogue –
Lockdown in Oakleigh – a Melburnian Greek girl returns to her roots
For more than 20 years I have lived in a Richmond flat within walking distance of the Melbourne CBD. Fat lot of good that did me in early March with social distancing …
News –
Banks, rents and rates still problems for Oakleigh traders
More than a month after Victoria’s coronavirus-induced lockdown, some Oakleigh businesses, including Greek traders, are still negotiating with banks, landlords and government over loan repayments, rents and rates. But the …
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Oakleigh Greek traders optimistic as more shops reopen
Greek traders in Oakleigh’s famous Greek precinct, Eaton Mall, and surrounding streets, where optimistic last Thursday, that trading would improve as more shops reopened and winter passed. One veteran Melbourne …
Features –
10 things to do: Keep calm and think Greek
Feeling like Hollywood actor Charlton Heston, in the 1971 post-apocalyptic film, The Omega Man (remade in 2007 as I am Legend, starring Will Smith)? Can’t go out at night? Discovering that …
Dialogue –
Coronavirus: good outcomes from a bad situation
“Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” – Rahm Emanuel, chief-of-staff to US president Barack Obama Much will be written about the devastating affects of coronavirus on the world: …
Life –
Oakleigh Greek shops come alive for Easter
Oakleigh’s shopping centre, particularly its famous Greek shops, came alive this morning with people queuing to buy food, including produce for Greek Orthodox Easter next week. Neos Kosmos visited Oakleigh shopping …
Life –
Oakleigh Greek traders gear up for Easter
Oakleigh Greek shops were doing their best this morning in the face of crippling trading restrictions due to the coronavirus crisis. Nonetheless they made the most of a bad situation …
Dialogue –
Coronavirus, Christ and the prodigal daughter who returned to Oakleigh
I have come full circle. Last week, Oakleigh and the “‘burbs” again became my home. The south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, where 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show 15 …