Opinion
Dialogue –
Some Aged Care homes and the Federal Government must share the blame for coronavirus crisis
Victorian communities have seen their elderly suffer immensely with a large number of deaths. But before we lay the entire blame for these failures at the feet of the Andrews …
Dialogue –
Whitewash on the box: how a lack of diversity on Australian television damages us all
Australia prides itself on being a successful multicultural society. Yet Australian television does not reflect the make-up of the wider community. This in turn means many stories of multicultural Australians …
Aged Care debacle: Saving lives and livelihoods – not profits
The drama and tragedy of the coronavirus victims – deaths, inflictions, agony and terror – swiping millions of people, even in our own Melbourne, could have been avoided or at …
Dialogue –
Turkey-Greece conflict in eastern Mediterranean is less about gas than vacuum left by Trump
The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining momentum. Yet it is a strange time to be fighting over gas when prices …
Dialogue –
Community and catastrophe: Jenny Mikakos on Pontians, Parliament and principles
In 2006, Victorian Member of Parliament and then parliamentary secretary for justice Jenny Mikakos did an inordinately brave thing. She stood on the floor of the Upper House and spoke …
News –
Greek sale of 101 armoured troop carriers to Egypt which it had received from Germany
Germany’s leading business daily, Handelsblatt, reports that Greece has sold 101 Soviet-made BMP-1 armoured infantry combat vehicles to Egypt, which the paper says Berlin is finding hard to explain. In …
Life –
The Greek Australian perspective into coronavirus – the great leveller
Last Saturday, being 15 August (Της Παναγίας), I performed what has become for many of us, a modern day ritual. I scrolled through by phone contacts and rang family and …
Dialogue –
Greek Campaign Veteran’s passing honoured in Victorian Parliament
Last week saw the commemoration of the end of the Second World War. Last week was also the occasion for Lee Tarlamis MP to speak in the Victorian Parliament to …
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‘I will never come to Australia again’: new research reveals the suffering of temporary migrants during the COVID-19 crisis
In the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in March, many temporary visa holders working in heavily casualised industries, such as hospitality and retail, lost their jobs and struggled to …
Dialogue –
Royal Commission into Aged Care reminds Health Department Secretary Brendan Murphy who sets the rules
The Royal Commission into Aged Care put the Secretary of the Federal Health Department, Brendan Murphy, firmly in his place when he tried to make an opening statement to attack …