Opinion
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Empowered retirement: Women, wealth, and lifestyle
When you mention that you’re nearing retirement, the first question often asked is, ‘Do you have enough?’ Enough accumulated savings? Enough superannuation contributions and financial resources? We’re constantly reminded that …
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I’m an expert in ancient Greece – Netflix’s Kaos is the cleverest retelling of Greek mythology I’ve ever seen
Last year, one of my child’s English assignments was to rewrite a traditional fairy tale with one major plot difference, to see how the story might play out differently. New …
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Diatribe: Book week at St. John’s
“Thank you for coming,” Leading Teacher Kristian Raspa offered a greeting. “You know, one of the most enduring memories our alumni tell us they have of their time at our …
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‘I became aware of the depth of our diversity and its benefits at the VMC Gala’
Melbourne is one of the great multicultural capitals of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than at our many cross-cultural events that unite us. The Victorian Multicultural Gala Dinner …
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Diatribe: Going solar – The Utopians of Heliopolis
I’ve always been fascinated by Saint Maximus the Greek, especially when one considered that he was a follower of radical Florentine reforming monk Girolamo Savonarola, who swept the Medicis from …
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Greece’s strategic plan for the Diaspora: democratic public sphere and the diasporic paradigm
Earlier this summer, the Greek Department of Foreign Affairs made available in its website the government’s updated Strategic Plan (referred from now on as “Plan”), for the purpose of eliciting …
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Honouring the past: Greek Australian Diaspora must rekindle the flame of political engagement
Our Greek ancestry demands that we ought to politically engage more meaningfully; that is what I’ve learnt from my grandfather’s political persecution and exile during the Greek Civil War. The …
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The Greens are no longer the party of Bob Brown
It’s hard not to admire Dr Brown. In the 1970s, when he was a doctor in Launceston, he led the campaigns to save Lake Pedder and the Franklin River from …
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Labor’s lost soul: How the ‘woke’ elite erased multiculturalism from the party
In 2009, I argued in a significant article in The Age that there was a “Race for Labor’s Soul” between a ‘politically correct’ or ‘woke’ Anglo elite that wanted to …
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Diatribe: Olympic observances
“The fact is,” my friend Dimos exclaimed, “the West is not only degenerate but ignorant. Άκου εκεί, placing transexuals at centre stage in the Olympics. There were no transexuals in …