Opinion
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OECD’s PISA scores show Greek and Australian learning results are leaning in the wrong direction
The latest OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, published Tuesday, show a long-term decline in reading, maths and science skills for both Greek and Australian students. The worldwide …
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Web Words: You know you’re Greek when…
We did a little write-up of things linked to our Greek identity, from the use of the wooden spoon, evil eye and mountza. Then we asked our readers to tell …
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Smoking is strictly forbidden in Greece, yeah right!
Much ado has been made recently about the anti-smoking bill in our homeland. The bill, as we all know, had been in effect since 2008 but had never been implemented. …
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Letter to the Editor: ‘For you, Maria Barbayannis’, says a divorce client she helped
Maria Barbayannis’ death shocked the Greek Community of Melbourne. Her funeral took place on Friday, 29 November 2019 at St Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church in Templestowe. A life taken too …
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Why some EU countries – like Greece – are struggling to relocate migrants
Irregular migrant entries within the European Union increased by 546 per cent in 2015. The instability in the Middle East, particularly the Syrian war, led to 1,015,078 sea arrivals on the Italian and Greek coasts. This influx …
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Letter: Nick Giannopoulos did not trademark the word ‘wogs’ but his shows
It appears the hit job on Nick Giannopoulos was successful. A week ago he was still respected and admired as the Greek Australian who in the late 1980’s popularised and …
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Letters and readers’ reactions on Nick Giannopoulos and the trademarking of wogs
Neos Kosmos has been inundated by letters and comments related to the recent news of Nick Giannopoulos and his trademarking of the word ‘wogs’. Here’s what some of our readers …
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An open letter to ‘wog boy’ Nick Giannopoulos
Dear Nick Giannopoulos, Most Greek Australians are aware of you as being a trail blazer by making wog comedy hip and likeable thanks to the highly popular and successful stage …
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To be a wog or not to be
Nick Giannopoulos, of Wogs out of Work fame, warned that he would take “legal action against comedians using the word ‘wog’ to promote their shows.” The successful stage production Wogs Out …
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Celebrating Erotokritos Year 2019 (Part 3): So who was Vitsentzos Kornaros?
All he tells us, in the epilogue to Erotokritos, is that he was born and raised in Sitia, where he created Erotokritos, and was married in the capital, Candia. He …