We are sitting around the kitchen table, preparing dinner. As this is a family dinner, my mother is preparing the family dinner staple, papoutsakia, eggplant stuffed with mince, topped with …

The garden presented as visibly more unkempt than in my previous visits. Here and there, a few wild flowers broke the hegemony of green within the lawn, a presumption that …

Twelve months ago as I was planning my relocation to Canberra, Sydney was in lockdown, and getting into Western Australia was harder than the magic pathway to Narnia. The army …

The Pan-Australian Justice for Cyprus Coordinating Committee (PASEKA) commemorates the 48th anniversary of Turkey’s illegal invasion and ongoing occupation of Cyprus. In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus, and since then has …

I would like to publicly express my gratitude and congratulations to Mr Giannis Chrysoulakis, the Secretary General of Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, who with his vision and charismatic personality …

If there is one Olympian deity of which there exists no statue, then surely it is that of the goddess Metis, Zeus’ first wife. A daughter of the primordial water …

Antiquarians of all varieties often speculate for fun how ancient luminaries would have used social media–long, technical screeds from Pliny the Elder on Reddit; the Roman poet Martial, dishing out …

The pandemic has reset the industry. COVID-19 affected the way people think and live, but also the event industry as whole. To rejuvenate festivals such as Antipodes while we are …

I wrote this in Bucharest’s Henri Coanda International Airport while waiting for a connecting flight back home, to Australia. I found it hard to believe that I was in a …

For the last ten or so years I’ve seen my mum and dad care endlessly for their parents. They’ve gone with them to every doctor’s appointment, to support them and …