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Mulgrave by-election: Voters have a crucial choice amidst years of Labor neglect
This Saturday’s Mulgrave by-election is about giving voters an important choice after years of neglect by Labor. One of the joys for me in recent weeks has been moving around …
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Opinion: The man who is keeping Ancient Greek alive in Melbourne
My first time meeting Alexandros was as a student of his, studying ancient Greek after-hours, originally at the Alphington Grammar School campus, and then the Doncaster High Campus. Our class …
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Echoes of war crimes in Greek epics resonate in today’s world
There’s been an odd bit of tension in the reviews of Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Iliad as readers have celebrated the work for making Homer modern, championed it …
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Kon Karapanagiotidis’ journey from a ragged charity beginnings to major recognition and impact
I have seen it from the inside. Twenty-two years ago, skirting broken syringes and shattered glass, I climbed up a rickety set of stairs into a ramshackle building, the broad …
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Navigating inheritance acceptance in Greece: Legal procedures and essential considerations
The acceptance of inheritance necessitates a process of necessary legal and administrative steps before one can obtain ownership of any estate to which they are entitled. One’s right as an …
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Greek weddings under the Southern Cross
The stiff, studio-posed wedding photographs of my newly arrived relatives haunt me now. The people they depict have either long departed or, have placed me in the position of living …
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Diatribe: Krapopolis and Krapopoulos – Delving into the excremental
I don’t mind the premise of the animated series “Krapopolis.” Using an emerging civilisation based on ancient Greece in order to satirise the dysfunctionality of the modern age and the …
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Invisible Australians – Navigating the minefield of neglect in a rapidly transforming nation
Invisible Australians – stressed Australia, declining Australia. The minefield that the Voice and many future campaigns will stumble onto and from which they will never return. If there is one …
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Defending the Republic: The ongoing struggle to protect French teachers
In France last week, a schoolteacher was assassinated for a second time in the town of Arras, near the Belgian border. Dominique Bernard was his name and he was a …
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Neo-nationalism and cultural populism: Or why my mother almost voted ‘No’
In 1996, John Howard, from the centre-right Liberal Party, became Prime Minister of Australia. For the first time the Liberal Party had a leader that proclaimed to be campaigning on …