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Mary Sinanidis

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Teacher Mia Haravitsidis’ podcast, The Student Space, comes from the heart

It was during a gap year after graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, enjoying the crystal clear waters of Platy Gyalos beach at Mykonos, that …

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Greek holiday dreams inch closer day by day

Australia’s federal government will lift its ban on citizens travelling to other countries without exemptions, the government announced on Wednesday. A day later, the federal government’s blanket “Do not travel” …

Fofi Gennimata, a unifying force in Greece’s political maelstrom

Fofi Gennimata was many things: a socialist, a mother, a daughter, but she refused to be defined just by the status of her health. For this reason, though she openly …

Tales from Byzantium: The real lord of the rings

Emperor Alexios lay weak and frail on his deathbed in the monastery of Mangana, at the easternmost edge of the Sirkeci peninsula on the Bosphorus Strait, on 15 August, 1118. …

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An ‘ordeal comes to an end’, say students as year 12 end-of-year exams kick off for the class of 2021

After two years of COVID, this year’s VCE written exams kicked off for 42,626 students across Victoria sitting for the English exam and another 3,520 sitting for English as an …

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Podcast: Paul Nicolaou is reactivating Sydney with a sense of kleos and clout

We asked Paul Nicolaou to tell us the first word that pops to mind when we say ‘future’, and he said ‘legacy’. The ancient Greeks called it kleos – noble …

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Melbourne lockdown ends, but opening up isn’t easy

On Friday morning, Melburnians woke up to the end of the city’s sixth lockdown. At midnight, there were cheers from balconies in downtown Melbourne. Euphoria was justified. Since March 2020, …

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Old Greek soldiers say lockdown was like “jail”

Tucked away in a leafy cul de sac on Ferrars Place in the once traditionally Greek stronghold of South Melbourne, the Hellenic RSL stands as a mantuary for male bonding. …

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Conrad Liveris wants to break taboos around sex as he takes on the helm of the WAAC

In the 1980s, young men with AIDS, abandoned by friends and families, were dying lonely deaths. In response to the AIDS pandemic, the Western Australian AIDS Council (WAAC) began its …

The ‘wog’ years: When the bookish ethnic girl met the Anglo high school beauty

“You should write a book!” I wonder how often it is that people recommend book-writing to each other and if they are sincere when making such suggestions. Or perhaps there’s …

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