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St Basil’s in Adelaide is not like its Victorian counterpart

The death of fifteen residents in the Greek Orthodox Archdioceses’ St Basil’s Homes for the Aged in Victoria from coronavirus has tainted the name of other Archdiocese centres around Australia. …

Features

Kerr’s curse, the Gough Whitlam dismissal and the Palace Letters

Professor Jenny Hocking fought for two years and won a High Court case this May to have 211 letters between Buckingham Palace and the then governor general, Sir John Kerr, …

Bureaucrats fail in their role and the government pays the price

Premier Daniel Andrews, the Minister of Health Jenny Mikakos, and the Chief Health Officer have told Victorians that they have become “too complacent.” The Chief of Police is muscular about …

Features

Harlem takes charge of its own

Neos Kosmos talked to three people who are deeply invested in the providing services and building resilience in Harlem. Lloyd Williams, the President and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber …

News

Confusion is king as the Commonwealth and Teachers’ union go head-to-head on schools opening

The newfound bonhomie between the Commonwealth government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, (ACTU), in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic is being challenged by rising tension between the government …

Features

Stephen Minas and his move from Victorian politics to the United Nations

Stephen Minas, now 36 years old, has made high achievement seem an effortless task. Mr Minas worked in his mid-twenties as an adviser to the former Premier of Victoria, Ted …

Dialogue

States of emergency: The economy, is it hibernating or dying?

My inspiration was Otter’s endorsement of Bluto’s rousing speech in Animal House; “I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” Is …

Dialogue

States of emergency: the importance of maintaining the social contract

Covid-19 has killed the small state – for now. Liberal democracies are rising to the challenge of an existential threat as they did in World War II. Individualism and diversities, …

Dialogue

Farewell Athens… Covid-19 dispatch from Greece

Athens, Wednesday, 11 March: I was leading my annual arts and cultural tour of Athens, from 9-13 March. Artists and producers from outside Greece come to Athens for five days …

Life

Alex Proyas: Looking for a new country in filmmaking

“The last 10 years have been a nightmare for me,” says director Alex Proyas. Two major movies have fallen over: Dracula, based on the historical figure of Voivode of Wallachia, …

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