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Next month’s federal budget is the time to stop talking about aged care and start fixing it

Australia’s aged-care system is in a state of a disaster. The aged care royal commission’s final report, released last month, is just the latest in a decades-long string of depressing …

Dialogue

Archbishop Makarios an Orthodox Odyssey

Life is what it is, a journey and as such we mere mortals who walk upon this earth do so in order to survive the challenges and ravages of time. …

Diaspora Greeks: Voting rights and other issues

The right to be able to vote in a Greek election from the place and from the country of your permanent residency, if you are a Greek citizen, was a …

The government keeps shelving plans to bring international students back to Australia. It owes them an explanation

Victorian universities recently re-proposed a previously conceived plan to get international students back under a similar model used to fly in tennis players for the Australian Open. Under the proposal, …

Life

New Anzac trail memorial to be erected at Agios Dimitrios in northern Greece

Eighty years ago – on 16 April – Agios Dimitrios and its valley to the west of Katerini were visited by fire and fury as its Allied defenders faced the …

Escaping the Queen’s Megaron: Studying sex and gender in the Ancient World

My title for this piece was inspired by Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of the Minoan “palace” site at Knossos in north-central Crete, just outside of the city of Herakleion. As a well-to-do gentleman and …

Life

The Greek famine that people still remember and talk about today

People still talk about the Greek famine of 1941. In my novel “Someone Else’s War” and in its play adaptation, I wrote about how my grandmother Olga, who worked for …

Time to fight the ‘she’s a slut’ rape culture: Chanel Contos’ petition highlights how sexual bullying contributes to cultural misogyny

In an online petition launched by Chanel Contos in February, thousands of women have now disclosed instances of sexual harassment and assault when at school parties. The petition’s author was …

Righteous Muslims: Paying the price for 1821

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 The conventional narrative on the Greek Revolution is generally dualistic to the point …

What is thrombocytopenia, the rare blood condition possibly linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine?

The federal government has asked Australia’s medical and vaccine regulators to urgently consider the European Medicines Agency’s finding of a possible link between the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine and rare blood …

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