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Spices, chickens, and misunderstandings: Comedic clash between Greek and French cultures

The end of a terrible year is around the corner. We need a respite to replenish reserves before 2024 and I am making a concerted effort not to monitor international …

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The NGV is provincial

Every year, politicians come to the Lonsdale Festival and acknowledge the pioneering role of Greek Australians in transforming Australian culture. There would be no Australian multiculturalism without the Jews and …

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Knowing when to stop thinking

In the first century of this common era, (CE or AD) Pliny the Elder began his encyclopaedic account of Natural History by noting that there were two ways to madness. …

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Diatribe: The Mehmed Marbles

Had Greece not been liberated, we may have been speaking today of the Mehmed Marbles, rather than the “Elgin” Marbles, a colonialist-imperialist term whose use by our national broadcaster, has …

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Asia Minor territories of Bithynia and Paphlagonia

Asia Minor was such an important battle ground in the history of the world, that many a king made a name for themselves on the battlefields in the region. Greek, …

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Pericles’ bust gives fanboy Boris Johnson advice on the Parthenon Marbles

The prime minister sat at his desk, rubbing his temples. He had a throbbing headache. It was just after 11pm. He willed himself to pick up the following briefing on …

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On not being an idiot

Finishing high school felt like such a relief. I could not wait for liberation from uniforms and the cloistered classrooms built around the design of a Union Jack. Little did …

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Helping Victorian families build their dream

As Greek Australians know, owning your own home is the core of the great Australian dream. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks left the ashes of a war-torn Greece to settle …

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Diatribe: Greeks of Görlitz – A study in German collaboration

I first learned of the Greeks of Zgorzelec in Poland (formerly the German imperial city of Görlitz) from Preston-based Faye Mangos, who describes in her autobiography “A Cry of the …

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What the soul holds

The instant my daughter Maya was born time stopped and the world split in half. Everything was recast by cosmic division of before and after. The death of my father …

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