Opinion
Is this really the end for Australia’s ‘Greek University?’
La Trobe University Bundoora is the most ‘Greek’ of all of Australia’s Universities. For almost forty years, it has served as the preeminent destination for thousands of students interested in …
Greens support Greek program at La Trobe University
Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice has added her name among those of politicians showing an outright support for Greek studies to continue at La Trobe University. She writes that the …
Life –
Making our mark on Melbourne: The Hellenic presence in a multicultural city
Recently, Hume City Mayor Joseph Haweil, who is of Assyrian and Greek descent has ensured that the significant presence of Assyrian-Australians in his municipality is reflected in the local topography …
America – battleground of freedom and democracy
Media narrative in the wake of the US Presidential election is that of a “deeply divided nation’. Given the vast regional, class, language and cultural diversity in America, democracy has …
La Trobe University Dean inundated with community letters to keep Greek Studies afloat
The proposal to terminate Modern Greek language studies at La Trobe University, the only such program of its type in Victoria, has caused disbelief in the Greek community of Melbourne. …
The benefits of speaking Greek
Language is a vital part of expressing our culture. It allows us to communicate with each other in ways I never imaged when my parents sent me to Greek school …
A warning for Greek language in Australia: Use it or you’ll lose it
My parents came to Australia as minority Rum Greeks from Turkey because Greece, wishing to preserve its ethnic population in Istanbul, would not have them. So they came to Australia …
Dialogue –
Opinion: What is in a name?
Many people across various ethnic communities across Australia may have at one point or another had their name butchered by someone who could not quite wrap their head around the …
Dialogue –
Cultural rubble, modern Greek studies and lotophagy: a memoir
I met Sanaz, now an ACT Government Solicitor, on my first day of Law School, at the University of Melbourne. She was a new arrival to Australia. Having fled Iran …
Dialogue –
Post Trump US politics needs a new civility
“May You Live in Interesting Times,” the quote often inaccurately attributed to the Chinese as a Chinese curse, is quite apropos in light of the recent elections in the United …