Opinion
Meet Evmenios, the newly enthroned Bishop of Kerasounta
If names signify the essence of an existence, then certainly this is the case for the newly enthroned bishop of Kerasounta, who is headquartered in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote. …
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17 November, the day democracy died and was reborn in Athens
Fascism and extreme demagoguery has no place in our society. Yet in recent years, we have seen the rise (and fall) of Golden Dawn, Trumpism, Bolsanaro, Erdogan and more. 17 …
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“Her Voice: Greek women and their friends”, a personal appreciation
Two Christmases ago, my mother informed me that she had been afforded the honour, by Women’s Food For Thought Network Founder and community activist Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou, of contributing her biography …
Andrew Liveris foreshadows a global carbon price at COP26 summit in Glasgow
Darwin-born Greek Andrew Liveris is a co-convener of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “gas-led recovery” program and has recently participated in discussions with John Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy. …
Byzanfest 2021, a festival dedicated to Orthodox Christian cinema
Byzanfest is the brainchild of Melbourne-based Chris Vlahonasios. Established in 2014, it is an international film festival totally dedicated to Orthodox Christian cinema. According to its founder, its aim is …
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Green hydrogen alone won’t get us to net zero
The editor of the Herald Sun, Sam Weir, while introducing the paper’s Mission Zero special reports, noted that: “The climate change debate in Australia has often been used as a …
Victorian government’s depiction of yiayia is a storm in a teacup
Mercifully, the Victorian government social media advertisement promoting vaccination against the dreaded coronavirus, the subject of this Diatribe, is not in Greek. Most of the time, the Greek in state …
Fofi Gennimata, a unifying force in Greece’s political maelstrom
Fofi Gennimata was many things: a socialist, a mother, a daughter, but she refused to be defined just by the status of her health. For this reason, though she openly …
28 October 1940, the date when Greeks said ‘Ohi’ and it really meant ‘No’
‘Ohi’ means ‘No’ in Greek. It was a response by the then Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. The 28 October is but one of many days in modern Hellenic history …
OPINIONS: What Ohi Day means to Greek-Australian youth
In Greece, school children march at the annual Ohi Day parade on 28 October, a public holiday. In the Antipodes, Greek-Australian youth grow up learning all there is to know …