Dora Houpis
Life –
Oakleigh’s Greek strip suffering as a result of coronavirus crisis
Greek small business owners in Melbourne’s famous Hellenic precinct, in Eaton Mall, Oakleigh, are currently demanding rent and land tax relief in the face of the government’s crippling business trading …
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Signs of our (non-coronavirus) times
Weary from reading about the coronavirus? Anxious about the future? Relax. Here are five signs spotted in inner-city Melbourne this week to make you laugh and think about other things. …
Dialogue –
The Greek name is no ordinary name
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” William Shakespeare,”Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespeare and Juliet were wrong. A name is …
Dialogue –
Forget Holden and Ford, the early Greeks drove Valiants
Holden recently foresakened us, announcing it was leaving Australia without so much as a shop front after 164 years. Ford and Toyota might be next, while Mitsubishi left us years …
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The Australia Day that ‘The Age’ came to see the Greeks party at Sorrento
Memories are a curious thing. You don’t know what you remember until your memory is jolted. Like by the old faded colour photograph Neos Kosmos printed last week of Greeks …
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Go to the Greek islands if you must, but then there’s Nea Kerdillia
I went to Greece in May for four months. Throughout the duration of that time, I didn’t go to one single island. I stayed put in the village where I …