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News –
Lucrative incentives for EU Parliamentarians
The next Elections for the European Parliament scheduled on 23-26 May 2019 have already started with fervor! A total of 751 seats (MEPs) are currently up for grabs by those …
Features –
75-year anniversary of the uprising nobody wants to know about
75 years ago thousands of starving Greek soldiers and sailors in the allied-controlled Mediterranean were attacked and then imprisoned in isolated desert camps in Africa when they peacefully protested to …
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To meat or not to meat?
More and more Greek Australians are choosing a cruelty-free lifestyle, abstaining not only from eating meat but all animal products. Paul Collaros has taken his ideology one step further by …
Life –
‘You should be honing your cooking skills not writing poetry’: words from a Greek-Australian troller
I was minding my own business – having a lovely day, doing my house chores, looking after my child, writing – when, after sharing on Facebook a podcast of an …
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Letter from a concerned mother: Modern Greek class cut mid-year
Dear Saturday School Co-ordinator-DET, I have children currently enrolled at Ashfield Saturday School of Community languages. There are currently 5 students enrolled in year 11 Modern Greek and less than 12 …
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Macedonia from Alexander the Great to Alexis Tsipras
To the uninitiated, the name dispute between Greece and FYROM seemed like a triviality – a curiosity at best. In the decades-long tug of war, the devil was always hidden …
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Diatribe: One people at the 32nd Lonsdale Street Greek Festival
“G’day,” a portly middle aged man sporting a grey, Fu Manchu-like goatee and wearing an eighties Bundaberg Rum t-shirt, approached me at the Epirus Cultural Stall during the Lonsdale Street …
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The gutsiest, ballsiest Greek women of them all
Is International Women’s Day really necessary? The very fact that the celebration exists is an oxymoron as we celebrate equality by singling out a gender – and this by its …
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Community language schools win big under Labor
Migrant communities will be the big winners under a Labor government, according to Chris Gambian, Labor Candidate for the multicultural Sydney seat of Banks, and himself a first generation Australian …
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Bill Shorten tells Greek migrants they “are the essence of Australian values” and makes three promises
Apart from food and other festivities, Greek Australians have come to expect visits by politicians at the Lonsdale Street Greek Festival and last weekend was no exception. Australian Prime Minister …