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Greek festivals take over Melbourne and Sydney
The 37th Antipodes Festival returns this weekend, an annual event which has become part of Melbourne’s cultural life is stewarded by the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM). As its director …
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Janiszewski and Alexakis to gift decades of Greek Australian history works to State Library of NSW
Social historian Leonard Janiszewski and ethnographic photographer Effy Alexakis—renowned chroniclers of the Greek-Australian experience since the early 1980s—will deliver a special lecture at the Sydney Greek Festival on March 11 …
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Saint Valentine, Saint Hyacinth, and the lovers Aquila and Priscilla
Every February 14, couples around the world celebrate love in the name of Saint Valentine. But who exactly was he, and how did he become the patron saint of romance? …
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From Zerma to Abbotsford, a Greek Civil War adventure
A few weeks ago, I was invited to the Abbotsford home of Pantelis and Dimitra Vlahopoulos, migrants that arrived in Melbourne in December 1966. Their backyard had the obligatory lemon …
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A second shot at Miss Universe Australia with a mission to inspire
Dana Diamataris, loves a new challenge any opportunity she gets. “Why should you stop challenging yourself at any point in your life? Why not continue to do it again and …
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Celebrating a great big fat Kazzi mixed wedding
My cousin’s eldest son fell in love with a childhood sweetheart whose family is part-Greek. It was a match made in the Mediterranean. But that wasn’t enough. The wedding had …
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Tracing Greek migration through Neos Kosmos obituaries
The Greek community of Victoria – and generally across the Australia – is mostly an advent of the post-war Southern European mass migration to Australia. Boatloads arrived in the 1950s …
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Sydneysiders to walk the 100km trail of the ANZACs in Crete
A team of Greek Australians and philhellenes are preparing to honour the ANZACs who fought at the Battle of Crete, walking the 100km trail they carried out all in the …
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Meet the backstage crew behind Hobart’s Greek Festival
It was all hands on deck last weekend on North Hobart’s Federal Street, as around 150 volunteers served crowds of multiple times their number, at Tasmania’s annual Greek Festival. “We’re …
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Unearthing Alexander’s legacy in Portugal: The Battle of Hydaspes in mosaic
Over the years I have travelled from North Africa and Central Asia to Europe, in order to study Greek historical sites and monuments. Being aware of the Indian and Hellenic …