Mary Sinanidis
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Greek Australian Sam Valavanis is the junior ambassador for Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight
For a while it was touch and go, but Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight will continue without crowds despite difficulties caused by COVID-19. The event’s junior ambassador, Greek Australian Sam …
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La Trobe University’s Greek studies program needs $80,000 to be out of the red
La Trobe University’s announcement for a proposal to terminate the Greek studies program was hard to understand as the program had increased its student numbers and seemed set for greater …
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Labor submits its Multicultural Statement, a vision for diversity
Labor’s vision for multiculturalism is encapsulated in the party’s Multicultural Statement, submitted in Parliament today. Shadow Multicultural Affairs Minister Andrew Giles shared his vision for a more diverse Australia “to …
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Dr Kefallinos’ disappointment as Macquarie University’s Greek program is downgraded
Dr Elizabeth Kefallinos, Head of Modern Greek Studies at Macquarie University, took her long service leave at the beginning of the year after 23 years of teaching. She left a …
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La Trobe University’s Greek Studies program discussions continue
Letters, meetings, petitions seem to be paying off for the Greek community as far as the salvation of the Greek studies program of La Trobe University (LTU) is concerned. Greek …
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Greek government calls on diaspora to invest in Greece, but not just for ‘sentimental reasons’
Dr Christos Dimas, Greece’s Deputy Minister of Development and Investment in charge of Research and Technology, is the youngest minister in the Mitsotakis government. The 40-year-old is one of those …
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Keeping Greek alive at La Trobe University: Meetings and consultations
La Trobe University’s (LTU) proposal to scrap the Greek Studies program from 2022 as part of efforts to reduce a dozen disciplines in the arts and education has mobilised the …
More Greek than the Greeks
Growing up in the diaspora in the Eighties, I was taught all the things I had to do in order to be Greek. These were very specific and involved – …
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Expats in Greece, a dystopian setting during COVID-19 Lockdown 2.0
Lockdown 2.0 has made Greece look like the set of a “dystopian, post-apocalyptic movie” say expats Neos Kosmos spoke to. Calm but complacent, expats living in the country tell us …
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Peeling back the layers of Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s Kefalonian Ambassador to the United States
Much has been written about the US elections, and Australia’s Ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, has been busy analysing, answering media questions, advising Australia’s government. He may have …