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Mary Sinanidis

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Details about the VCE Greek exam changes: here’s what they mean

Victorian students sitting for Modern Greek language exams will be placed in different examination pathways to enable differentiation between students who are new arrivals from Greece and those who are …

Life

Book launch for ‘Lemnos and Gallipoli Revealed’, a book that should be on the school reading list

Key stakeholders from the Australian and multicultural community of Victoria attended the the book launch of academic Jim Claven’s latest work, ‘Lemnos and Gallipoli Revealed’. But the spotlight was not …

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Greek to stay at Coburg West Primary School! Victory for Greek language – and choice

Parents and students of Coburg West Primary School’s (CWPS) Greek language programme had the rug pulled from under their feet during the mid-semester break when they received an email from …

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$21,000 worth of Greek Australian smiles for the Smile of the Child

Many smiles were offered by Greeks of Melbourne for the Greek children’s welfare organisation, Smile of the Child (Hamogelo tou Paidiou), in an event held at the Cretan Brotherhood on …

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Oakleigh dad rallies for HSCT to come to Australia and is stunned by community support in his own efforts to get MS treatment

Nektaria and Nick Dimos are your ordinary young Greek Australian couple. When they answer the door of their lovely Oakleigh home, they have a big smile and look like they’re …

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Dora Moses named Women’s Small Business Champion at Northern Multicultural Small Business Awards – but everyone walks away a winner

There were two Greek finalists at the Northern Multicultural Small Business Awards: Dewdrops Early Learning Centre and Westgarth Pharmacy. Truth be told, Neos Kosmos was there in the hope that they …

Dialogue

28 October anniversary in the Antipodes: Is it upside down or the right way up?

When I moved to Greece from Australia, I remember feeling very lucky that I could finally embrace my culture at ‘home’. But the celebration of Greekness in the homeland soon …

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Senator Sinodinos talks about his identity with the Greeks of Melbourne

Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) President Bill Papastergiadis said that “quite often careers appear to take precedence over all other different parts of a person’s life. But it’s those other …

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Voting rights for Greeks abroad but with bureaucratic provisions in a bill that creates different classes of citizens

When Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last met with Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) President Bill Papastergiadis to discuss the postal vote for the diaspora a few months ago, he …

Life

Delphi Bank’s 26th Greek Film Festival is (almost) over, and Melbourne co-organiser remembers blasts from the past

For Delphi Bank 26th Greek Film Festival (GFF) co-chairman Leonidas Vlahakis, this year’s GFF was one of the best in his 19-year tenure as an organiser of the event – …

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