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Captain Reg Saunders: A warrior’s journey through war and survival in Crete

Editor’s note: Glenda Humes granted permission to use family photos of Captain Reg Saunders and the late Mr Humes. Captain Reg Saunders was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned …

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“I never felt ‘Greek’ enough”: Kat Zam’s struggle fitting in with the community as a queer person

“Greeks have a lot of pride, so I feel queer people are afraid to come out because they don’t want to bring ‘shame’ on their family. Being Queer should not …

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A Greek’s photographic ode to the spirit of the Australian outback

Photographer Vagelis Poulis embarked on an epic journey from Greece to Australia, with a specific mission in mind, to photograph the Aboriginal Peoples and Uluru in the Australian outback. This …

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Easter in a Peloponnesian village as Greece’s dark shadow is cast by the Colonels’ Junta

I have a black and white photo, possibly from 1970, of my cousins and family picking bits of meat from a lamb that had been roasting over a pit of …

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Lesser known traditions of Greek Easter

The word ‘ethimo‘ (custom) comes from ‘ethos‘ which means ‘habit’ while on a deeper spiritual level points towards the guiding beliefs of a person, or group and customs are recurring …

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Helen Tsimarakis on engineering a modern skincare brand rooted in Ancient Greek philosophy and knowledge

“At Nefysi, we live and breathe our values. Our values are at the core of everything we do – it’s the reason we exist,” Helen Tsimarakis tells Neos Kosmos. “Like …

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Run for The Voice: Ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer talks exclusively to Neos Kosmos

Dorothy Hatzopoulou, talked to ultramarathon runner and former federal politician Pat Farmer AM, about his latest campaign to Run for the Voice to Parliament, and how Greece inspired him. Farmer’s …

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The hidden reality of intimate partner sexual violence in family and Greek communities

The reality of intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) affecting primarily women, is often shrouded in darkness. Feelings of shame, and the debilitating impact on self-worth that this violence creates, often …

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Emanuel Comino: The 90-year-old “Father of the Marbles Campaign”

On Wednesday evening 29 March, the venue of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria “Leonidas,” was full of people who gathered to attend a lecture on the return of …

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Paddy Montgomery, the Irish Australian master of the Greek traditional instruments

There is something about traditional Greek folk music, that carries the identity of all regions; sounds that run deep in the veins of Hellenism. From, Thrace, to Northern Epirus, Thessaly, …

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