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Diatribe: Going solar – The Utopians of Heliopolis
I’ve always been fascinated by Saint Maximus the Greek, especially when one considered that he was a follower of radical Florentine reforming monk Girolamo Savonarola, who swept the Medicis from …
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Greece’s strategic plan for the Diaspora: democratic public sphere and the diasporic paradigm
Earlier this summer, the Greek Department of Foreign Affairs made available in its website the government’s updated Strategic Plan (referred from now on as “Plan”), for the purpose of eliciting …
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Honouring the past: Greek Australian Diaspora must rekindle the flame of political engagement
Our Greek ancestry demands that we ought to politically engage more meaningfully; that is what I’ve learnt from my grandfather’s political persecution and exile during the Greek Civil War. The …
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The Greens are no longer the party of Bob Brown
It’s hard not to admire Dr Brown. In the 1970s, when he was a doctor in Launceston, he led the campaigns to save Lake Pedder and the Franklin River from …
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Labor’s lost soul: How the ‘woke’ elite erased multiculturalism from the party
In 2009, I argued in a significant article in The Age that there was a “Race for Labor’s Soul” between a ‘politically correct’ or ‘woke’ Anglo elite that wanted to …
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Diatribe: Olympic observances
“The fact is,” my friend Dimos exclaimed, “the West is not only degenerate but ignorant. Άκου εκεί, placing transexuals at centre stage in the Olympics. There were no transexuals in …
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A critical overview of the updated strategic plan of Greece for its diaspora
The Department of Foreign Affairs of Greece is seeking public recommendations for its updated version of its strategic plan for Ecumenical Hellenism for the period 2024 – 2027. The plan …
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Diatribe: With Syrmos in Agioi Saranta
The sun, bruised and swollen as if ripe to burst from the repeated blows and ravages of the centuries, leaned exhausted over the sea, shining upon it a phosphorescent path …
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Hypocrisy and reality in Australian foreign policy
While it may be the reality that selective government sanctions on companies and individuals are of limited value in the real world, they serve as powerful symbols. They state that …
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Both sides of Cypriot diaspora must stand together
On July 21, 2024, Melbourne’s Federation Square was filled with more than 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots and their supporters. The event was to commemorate the beginning of the brutal …