Dialogue
The end of Golden Dawn: has Greece shown us how to deal with neo-Nazis?
When a wave of right-wing extremism hit Greece in 2012, few would have predicted that Golden Dawn, one of the groups involved, would grow to become the third largest party …
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Neos Kosmos director Chris Gogos signs off 2020 with an inspiring speech
In a flash event that took place at The Rose in Port Melbourne, Neos Kosmos celebrated an early Christmas with its staff, contributors, selected guests and stakeholders. Among the esteemed …
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Theo Theophanous: ‘If Albanese wants to survive he has to shift on energy’
Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese appears to be on an electoral winner by adopting the 2050 net-zero emissions target. Scott Morrison has stated he will make no such pledge to …
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How Greek musicians weathered an economic crisis could help UK performers handle COVID fall-out
On the evening of Sunday 13 December, the president of the Greek Musicians’ Union stood in front of an empty auditorium at the Athens Music Hall, as thousands watched at …
Opinion: How has Greek immigration enriched Australian society?
The first known Greeks to step foot on Australian soil were seven sailors convicted of piracy by a British naval court in 1829. Some more arrived later around 1850 during the …
Young, broke and yuletide: The first Christmas in Athens
Christmas 1992, my first official Christmas as a permanent resident of Greece. I had arrived in the summer of that year, wide-eyed and daisy fresh, with a passion for Greece …
Black Christmas among the olive groves
One month before my sixteenth Christmas, my uncle in Athens telephoned my maternal grandmother to tell her that he would be over for lunch, as soon as he finished work. …
Greek drug addicted parents are losing their children in Melbourne
In the days leading up to Christmas, an expatriate nurse tells the readers of Neos Kosmos about how the state has taken the children from Greek-Australian drug users and has …
Turkey: shaky economy destabilises Erdoğan’s authoritarian presidency
All is not looking rosy for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s authoritarian president. Once feted for presiding over what was generally considered a regional success story, his stock is falling rapidly …
From Athens to America: Democracy and insanity
Unlike the far-reaching Athenian direct-democracy (508 until 322 BCE) where people had a direct say and influence on the decision-making affairs of the city-state, the noble principle of direct democracy …