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Byzanfest 2021, a festival dedicated to Orthodox Christian cinema
Byzanfest is the brainchild of Melbourne-based Chris Vlahonasios. Established in 2014, it is an international film festival totally dedicated to Orthodox Christian cinema. According to its founder, its aim is …
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Green hydrogen alone won’t get us to net zero
The editor of the Herald Sun, Sam Weir, while introducing the paper’s Mission Zero special reports, noted that: “The climate change debate in Australia has often been used as a …
Victorian government’s depiction of yiayia is a storm in a teacup
Mercifully, the Victorian government social media advertisement promoting vaccination against the dreaded coronavirus, the subject of this Diatribe, is not in Greek. Most of the time, the Greek in state …
Fofi Gennimata, a unifying force in Greece’s political maelstrom
Fofi Gennimata was many things: a socialist, a mother, a daughter, but she refused to be defined just by the status of her health. For this reason, though she openly …
28 October 1940, the date when Greeks said ‘Ohi’ and it really meant ‘No’
‘Ohi’ means ‘No’ in Greek. It was a response by the then Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. The 28 October is but one of many days in modern Hellenic history …
OPINIONS: What Ohi Day means to Greek-Australian youth
In Greece, school children march at the annual Ohi Day parade on 28 October, a public holiday. In the Antipodes, Greek-Australian youth grow up learning all there is to know …
Tales from Byzantium: The real lord of the rings
Emperor Alexios lay weak and frail on his deathbed in the monastery of Mangana, at the easternmost edge of the Sirkeci peninsula on the Bosphorus Strait, on 15 August, 1118. …
Australia’s Labor Party acknowledges “Ohi” Day and the long friendship between Australia and Greece forged during WWII
Australia’s Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese and Greek Australian Federal MPs, Maria Vamvakinou, Member for Calwell, and Steve Georganas, Member for Adelaide, commemorate ‘Ohi’ day and express their support for …
Australia’s Labor Party expresses condolences for Fofi Gennimata
Australia’s Labor Party Leader Anthony Albanese, Foreign Affairs Shadow Minister Senator Penny Wong, Maria Vamvakinou MP and Adelaide’s Steve Georgana MP sent a message of condolences for the passing of …
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s message for ‘Ohi’ Day
On this day, the story of Greek pride, independence and courage echoes throughout the world. It is a story that should — must — be repeated and never be forgotten. …