Opinion
On 21 April, 1967, the tanks rolled into Athens and the colonels took charge of Greece
It was 54 years ago today that a group of far-right Greek army colonels led a coup d’etat just weeks before elections that were predicted to give the victory to …
Athens defies curfews: conjuring the days of Papathemelis during the global pandemic
In February 1994, Greece’s former public order minister Stelios Papathemelis imposed a 2am curfew on the operating of bars and nightclubs. The goal was to limit noise pollution, but the …
A digger’s tale from Newport and Brunswick to Lemnos – The Anzac Voyage of Alec Holland
Alec Holland was sent as a reinforcement to a unit in which experienced tradesmen like himself were especially valued. An engineering support unit, the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train …
What ancient Greek handwashing can teach us about socio-economic inequality
COVID-19 poses massive challenges nationally and globally when it comes to socio-economic inequality. It has hit the vaccine rollout especially hard, threatening new and potentially more lethal variants, while low-risk …
Children of the Revolution: The lost childhoods of 1821
Yiannis Gounaris is, at least in the popular consciousness, an obscure figure of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Hailing from Ioannina, he was employed by Omer Vryoni as his official …
Next month’s federal budget is the time to stop talking about aged care and start fixing it
Australia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing …
Diaspora Greeks: Voting rights and other issues
The right to be able to vote in a Greek election from the place and from the country of your permanent residency, if you are a Greek citizen, was a …
The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation
Victorian universities recently re-proposed a previously conceived plan to get international students back under a similar model used to fly in tennis players for the Australian Open. Under the proposal, …
Life –
New Anzac trail memorial to be erected at Agios Dimitrios in northern Greece
Eighty years ago – on 16 April – Agios Dimitrios and its valley to the west of Katerini were visited by fire and fury as its Allied defenders faced the …
Escaping the Queen’s Megaron: Studying sex and gender in the Ancient World
My title for this piece was inspired by Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of the Minoan “palace” site at Knossos in north-central Crete, just outside of the city of Herakleion. As a well-to-do gentleman and …