Opinion
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The dark super-minister rises
As if the week was not already playing out in favour of the Minister of Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton was appointed ‘super minister’ of Home Affairs.
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The widows and the dear departed
Dean Kalimniou explores The Widows and the Dear Departed by first generation Greek Australian, Ekaterini Balouka.
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The women of Florina
Elizabeth Gertsakis’ exhibition Girls In Our Town: Women in the Shadow of ‘The Magnificent Empire’ gives insight into the Florina Prefecture from 1900-1918 and 2017.
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Tools and symbols
Nobody was ready for the ‘riot hipster’; the well-groomed bearded young man, dressed in black, and taking a selfie with his phone raised an uproar.
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Flying north for winter
Each year it starts in June, the period when Greek Melbournians, as antipodean migratory birds, fly north for the winter, observes Dean Kalimniou.
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‘Our mother is addicted to the pokies’
A harrowing personal account of how one woman’s gambling problem has affected a family in our community.
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Reflections on presence: A re-creation in movement
Dean Kalimniou on Vrasidas Karalis’ Reflections on Presence, a philosophical notebook exploring the complexities and concerns of contemporary conscience.
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The Promise shows the horrors of genocide, and denial
Set during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, Terry George’s film sheds light on the nightmares Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians have lived with for decades.
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Twitter Twits
Michael O’ Brien’s tweet re Jenny Mikakos was particularly cruel, because it mocks the entire Scylla and Charybdis paradigm faced by migrants in Australia.
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Suicide toll – stop the shameless research, just disaggregate
The Australian suicide toll will not be reduced unless we understand the various circumstances of those at-risk and particularly of those critically at-risk.