Opinion
The Greek diaspora in Australia needs educators like Manos Tzimbragos to stay
At a time when Greek language learning is facing critical struggles in the Antipodes, news that Manos Tzimbragos, the highly respected Education Officer and Principal of the Greek Community of …
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What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons
As a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, I find myself reflecting on two of the most powerful paternal moments in Greek literature. At the end of Homer’s classic poem, “The …
Hippocrates or Hypocrisy?
Say it ain’t so… Joe! It was 1919 and the world had just witnessed the bloodiest war of all time – WWI, which resulted in 40 million casualties and the …
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“A recipe for Daphne”, a novel of nostos, huzun and longing
How can you feel nostalgia for a place you have never lived in? A neologism, in the Greek language, the word was first coined as a medical term in 1688 …
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The Greek state indifferent to Greek expatriates
Thousands of people of Greek background around the world wish to obtain the Greek passport. Is that good or bad? One would think that for a country like Greece, with …
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The Greeks of Australia who are going back home
It would not be an exaggeration to say that, in the last fifteen years, Greece has experienced the largest wave of emigration in its history since the 1950s. There were …
Open Dialogue Series conjures images of forsaken Epitalio, all of Greece in one overlooked town
On the verdant slope of Dardiza, where the 110km-long Alfeios River forms its delta, survives a picturesque town which, during the Mycenaean Age was known as Thryon, and later – …
What’s in a name? How recruitment discriminates against ‘foreign’ applicants
Since moving from Pakistan to Australia, Mariam Mohammed has gained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, co-founded a social enterprise (teaching financial literacy to women) and made the Australian Financial …
Mitropanos sings away every “Cloudy Sunday” during lockdown
“And here again”(1) – we are in lockdown. But this time, every “Cloudy Sunday” (2), “I will close my eyes”(3) and Mitropanos will “Sing me one more song” (4). The …
Delta and the variant strains working through letters of the Greek alphabet
At this, the commencement point of the narrative, the gentle reader is courteously invited to spare a thought for the tender feelings of Australian chanteuse Delta Goodrem, whose first name …