Fotis Kapetopoulos
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Nikos Papastergiadis wins 2025 Michael Crouch Award for debut biography
Nikos Papastergiadis’s literary non-fiction work John Berger and Me has won the 2025 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography Awards. The winner was announced on …
Building bridges: Greek Australian youth to reconnect with ancestral homeland in 2025 Athens tour
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) has announced another Greek Australian students’ tour to Athens for September 2025. The tour focuses on civics, education and culture and aims to augment …
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Greek Aussies caught in drama as Interpol arrest unfolds on flight out of Athens
A delayed flight put a Greek Australian couple in the middle of the arrest of an internationally wanted fugitive, accused of defrauding an entire nation of approximately AUD 1.38 billion. …
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Engineers of the hive: Greek Australian beekeepers blend tradition, science and legacy
Con Pape, now in his early 60s, and Demos Michalopoulos, in his mid-50s, are engineers and hobby beekeepers. Their “mathematical and engineering” brains, as Con puts it, make beekeeping a …
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From Adelaide to Ikaria: How a Greek Australian developer seeks clarity in a Blue Zone
An unexamined life is not worth living, Socrates warned. Albert Camus cautioned against “philosophical suicide”—the moment we stop asking why and instead surrender to comforting lies, plastic trinkets hauled across …
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The spy who ran a fish-and-chip shop: Olga’s war reborn in Greek
Dr Phil Kafcaloudes, former ABC Radio National breakfast presenter, has seen his 2011 novel Someone Else’s War—adapted into a play with his wife as Of Forgetting—reprinted for a second time, …
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Lives in light: Jim Pavlidis and the icons of the ordinary
Jim Pavlidis, the award-winning illustrator who took out a Quill in 2022 for his satirical ‘Net Zero, Zero Net’ in The Age – of former PM Scott Morrison as a …
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Homer meets the Ivory Tower: Joel Christensen to lead CUNY Graduate Center
Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and a regular contributor to Neos Kosmos, will soon become Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the City …
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RBA rate hold prompts mixed reactions from Greek Australian experts and business leaders
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) decision to hold the cash rate steady at 3.85 per cent has sparked frustration across the nation’s mortgage belt and reportedly surprised even the …
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Fate, flight delays and a Greek freak: a chance encounter with Giannis
A missed connection and seven-hour flight delay turned into a once-in-a-lifetime encounter for Alexander Kaliakoudis and his cousin, when they stumbled upon the NBA deity Giannis Antetokounmpo at Athens International …