Opinion
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Australians are drinking less… and that may not be a good thing
I know, that headline might sound a little bad. Alcohol is the main cause for many risks to our health when not consumed in moderation. It affects people’s livers, hearts, …
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Too many rules or no rules at all?
I came across a piece of news the other day: according to a report, a council within the Mornington Peninsula is set to pass a new law that doesn’t allow …
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Greek and Australian politics, strangely aligned
Last week, it was Greece’s Odyssey, equalled by Australia’s Iliad. As the Greek PM Alexis Tsipras celebrated his country’s end of a homeric journey out of the crisis, 15,000 km …
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Greece exits its third bailout but eurozone still has much to learn from the crisis
After nine years of unprecedented peacetime economic hardship, Greece exits its IMF bailout programme. So ends a series of three bailouts organised by the so-called troika of the IMF, European …
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Homer in the time of the Zhou
Whether by accident or design, the ancient cultures of Greece and China, though geographically at great distances from each other and politically, poles apart, present interesting parallels. One of many …
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When racism knocks, there is no time to waste
First, it was Andrew Bolt, writing “There is no ‘us’ any more, as a tidal wave of immigrants sweeps away what’s left of our national identity,” in his now infamous …
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Hydriot Memories: My neighbour’s expanding house
We Hydriots are a proud, yet prickly, people. Our island is rough hewn and to a degree, so are we, though our hearts are big and our minds quick. I …
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Exclusion of Greek from the Liquorland sign in Oakleigh marks height of ingratitude
One of the elements that make Melbourne special for me, is its plethora of signs in other languages and alphabets that can be found identifying businesses. From Chinese characters employed …