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From ancient arenas to the AFL Grand Final: How sport keeps us together
Sport isn’t just about watching athletes invade each other’s personal space in ways that would get the rest of us fired. From ancient Greece to the AFL Grand Final, sport …
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Australian Greek Welfare Society, AGWS – the early years – Paper delivered to Greek Community to Melbourne 29 August 2024
It was a difficult period for women in the late 1960s and the early 1970s in the context of the Greek Community of Melbourne which was then totally ruled by …
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Pragmatic idealism: Looking for common ground in an age of despair
By the end of 2024, over 65 countries—representing about 4 billion people, or half the world’s adult population—would have held national elections, earning the year the title of “year of …
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The revival of the ‘gaida’ a highlight of this weekend’s Greek traditional youth music festival
Tim Mandilas is one of the army of volunteers – who makes #folkGRooves festival a reality. “I respect the younger dancers and musicians that will perform live at this year’s …
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Farewell to a Lonsdale Street Icon: The sweet legacy of Melbourne’s ‘International Cakes’ to close
If walls could talk, International Cakes (To Diethnes), located in the heart of Melbourne, would tell endless stories of the Greeks who first arrived in Australia, the families they built, …
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Nick Thyssen (Theodosiadis): The Greek who changed food production methods worldwide
Undoubtedly, tens or even hundreds of immigrants, who had settled to Australia almost as children, mainly from the early 1880s, managed to emerge with their settlement great figures in the …
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Father-son duo on track to ‘conquer’ Athens Marathon
Dimitri Vlahandreas is set to embark on a journey to Athens as he looks to complete a major bucket list item at the age of 74 alongside his son Peter, …
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Forgotten merchants: The pioneers who shaped early Greek American success
Our standard Greek American narrative tells the story of a late nineteenth and twentieth century mass migration of largely poor villagers, part of the huge wave of Southern and Eastern …
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Unpacking the dopamine Myth: Dr Anastasia Hronis on reclaiming control of our behaviours
When clinical psychologist, Anastasia Hronis, started writing The Dopamine Brain, she soon realised how much misinformation was out there about dopamine —what it is and how it works. In her …
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Annie Anezakis’s journey from rowing dreams to medical ambitions
When Annie Anezakis returned to Oxford University for medical school in 2023, she didn’t plan to row again, after taking a year off the sport. Soon she realised she “missed …