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United on all fronts
Cyprus Red Cross was officially admitted to the International Federation of Red Cross last week thanks to the hard work of their volunteers and committee
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Religious tourism for some, a lifelong home for others
The small community of monks at Mt Athos is growing. Neos Kosmos talks to two recent Greek Australian visitors.
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The betrayal of the Greek middle class
“Our parents’ generation have benefited from the corrupt political system that favoured nepotism and patronage, leaving the future generations to foot the bill”
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Xanthoula and Slim – an Anzac love story
“A small vivacious girl who, in 1942 when only 15, helped to hide an Australian soldier from the enemy in Greece, arrived yesterday in the migrant ship, to marry him.”
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The cultural pioneer
The life of Stathis Raftopoulos was celebrated at the launch of Kyriakos Amanatides’ book Stathis Raftopoulos MBE – Poet. A contemporary Ulysses in the Antipodes
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The Polytechnic uprising
Tomorrow sees the 40th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising, against the military dictatorship imposed in Greece from 1967.
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Rebel with a cause
Audiences have been polarised but at the same time intoxicated by the films of Australian born Greek director Constantine Giannaris
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Bingara Dreaming
With a date set for the opening of the Roxy Museum, the inspirational story of the Greeks who changed regional Australia forever is about to turn Bingara into a place of pilgrimage
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Eagles of Crete
An untold story of the Civil War in Crete, from the pen of Englishman Colin Janes