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The Greek Academy of Melbourne reloaded

“Myrivilis’ «Η Ζωή εν Τάφω» is an anti-war novel.” “No! Did you read that bit where they meet the Russians on the hill and they are speaking Greek? It glorifies …

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‘Star Wogs: The Ethnics Strike Back’

The title to the show currently playing at the Comedy Theatre is particularly apt, though regrettably, no reference to Star Wars, a genre that lends itself to infinite parody, is …

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Moscow and Constantinople clash over Ukrainian autocephaly

Ukraine’s pressing ecclesiastical issue has provoked a fierce rift between the Orthodox churches of Russia and Constantinople, with the powerful Patriarchate of Moscow warning the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the latter’s …

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The Hangover

“Βρε, what’s that on your arm?” I pointed to my friend’s prodigious muscular upper arm, bulging from within the confines of a particularly tight t-shirt. He looked at me warily …

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Looking for hope

For all the talk about a ‘brain-drain’ that has deprived Greece from a much valuable human capital, minimising the country’s resources, which would lead to growth and prosperity, there is …

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Fading light

The death of a child is always heartbreaking, but when it is by suicide, it is as devastating as it gets, with long term negative psychosocial effects for those left …

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Love problems? There’s a pill for that, but Plato offers a wiser cure

We take pills and potions for everything from a bad back to depression. Why shouldn’t we adopt the same approach to love and the miseries it may cause? Oxford ethicist …

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‘Orientalising’ Greece in the international press and how we are missing the coming threat

Since I started covering Greece from the ground in autumn 2014, the country’s image in the international media has gone through several phases. While a worthwhile task that perhaps should …

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Australian crimes against asylum seekers

Future gemerations will damn the present for its atrocities, as we damn and indict the past for theirs. The offshore custodial predicaments that have degenerated to indefinite immigration detention will …

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Against the Ruins

Do we lean against the ruins? Or are we ideologically against ruins in general and crave their demolition? The polysemy of the Hellenic Museum’s latest exhibition: “Against the Ruins: Photographs …

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