Opinion
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SEXPO: ‘You’re Greek, oh my God! Do your parents know you’re here?’
“We are going to move you to a bigger booth.” It was the head of SEXPO and he was ringing me on the morning of Sydney SEXPO to tell me …
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Valdman’s Greek tragedy is sympathetic not condescending
The almost apocalyptic catastrophe afflicting Athens recently is truly immense. Over 80 people have perished and hundreds more have suffered terrible wounds reminiscent of the 1922 Smyrna conflagration. Is this …
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Mati – Rafina: the day after
I was there on Tuesday morning. At Mati and at Kokkino Limanaki (‘red harbour’) in Rafina. Or what is left of them. A seaside resort with minimal access to the …
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Famagusta Regina: The work of Cypriot poet Kyriakos Charalambides in context
Ours is a world based on speed and consumption, or rather, speed of consumption. Daily, we are assailed by messages telling us which products to buy, which stars to emulate, …
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Patriots and pawns
To say that the agreement between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), that sees the latter changing its constitutional name from ‘Macedonia’ to ‘North Macedonia’ did not …
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Why, how and who should vote in Greek elections
Now that the Greek Minister of Interior, Panagiotis Skourletis, commited to present a draft legislation to the Hellenic parliament regulating the voting rights of Greeks abroad, it is important to …
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United Cyprus key to Euro integration
Friday 20 July marks the 44th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation of the northern part of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. A diminishing number of Australian Cypriots who …
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Dances with Greeks
Recently, I observed the performance of one of the more skilled Greek dance groups in Melbourne, one that takes great pains to master every single detail of the dances of …
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On the origins of saviours
“Let’s forget about Alexander the Great, for a while,” my Bitolan interlocutor exclaimed in exasperation. For the past hour, he had been trying, via various spurious means to ‘prove’ to …
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Is the Greek president afraid of the Greek Australian wrath?
As soon as news of the cancellation of Prokopis Pavlopoulos’ visit to Australia broke, the Greek Australian social mediasphere caught fire – here are a few comments gathered from the …