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Exposing Black Cladding: The hidden threat to Aboriginal business integrity
Black Cladding is a practice which exploits cultural identity for financial gain and undermines Aboriginal entrepreneurs of opportunities. It is unethical and often illegal, and works against Closing the Gap …
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games, an ‘Aristophanic’ ceremony
Unlike other civilisations that have perished at some point, the Greek civilisation is distinguished because its achievements continue to thrive throughout time and space. For example, two beautiful cities in …
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Diatribe: The judgement of Paris
“It may be that the tableau with the drag queens is not blasphemous, but none the less, but whatever happened to aesthetics?” my friend threw up her hands and winced …
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Rest in peace Efstathia Spiropoulos
Our beloved Efstathia Spiropoulos was born 10th June 1920 in the midst of the Turkish Greco War of Asia Minor. She was born in a little village called Flessiada outside …
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Institutional successes and failures of the Greek Third Republic (1974-2024)
I was seven-years-old on July 24, 1974, as Thessaloniki celebrated, and the chant “he’s coming!” sounded from cars, the streets and balconies. The optimism of those days was vindicated. Fifty …
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A Greek estate with a foreign divorce
Due to the fact that millions of Greeks emigrated from Greece to other countries mainly during the second half of the 20th century, there are now many estates in Greece, …
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Mutual respect
July 21, 2024 at approximately 1.30pm at Federation Square in Melbourne. The crowd was gathering. A cool winters day and fortunately the rain held off, unfortunately so did the sun. …
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Kostas Menoikos: 26 years missing
Kostas Menoikos, son of Nikolaos and Theonitsa Menoikos, was one of our own. Born on October 28, 1948, in Varosha, the heart of the occupied city of Famagusta, his parents …
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Finding Agapi
Do you remember professor Julius Sumner Miller? ‘Why is it so?” he would ask. Have you ever had a ‘Why is it so’ moment?” I have. Allow me to tell …
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Diatribe: Peter Jasonides and Epirus
My first conversation with the late Peter Jasonides relating to Epirus took place at a Pontian «παρακάθ’». The traditional Pontian song «Τρυγόνα» was playing and we were comparing lyrics, as …