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Meet the Greek Australian musician who travels the Greek islands playing his clarinet

Theodore Skaltsas’ love affair with the clarinet, one of the most iconic instruments of Greece, started at a very young age and developed despite the fact that he was born …

Dialogue

Dinocrates, Alexander the Great and the inspiration behind Mount Rushmore

“Somewhere in America… backbone of the continent, removed from succeeding, selfish, coveting civilisations and out of the path of greed, an acre or two of stone should bear witness, carrying …

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Jessica Mauboy engaged to her Greek Australian boyfriend!

Pop star Jessica Mauboy and her long-time boyfriend, soccer player Themeli Magripilis, have gotten engaged in Greece. Themeli, a Darwin boy himself, proposed to the Australian artist, while they were …

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The new Goulandris museum’s $3 billion collection in the heart of Athens

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing”. These words of Belorussian-French artist Marc Chagall – who fused modernism’s aesthetic preoccupations with aspects …

Features

The ‘blessed Liberty Ships’: The ‘yeast’ that caused the Greek fleet to rise

I grew up in a family of Greek merchant sailors. My father, from Hydra, served in the Greek Navy and then the merchant marines, as did his father, grandfather, brother, …

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Return to the Antikythera shipwreck as underwater archaeology resumes

The underwater archaeological survey at the Antikythera shipwreck that has been suspended since 2017 will soon resume, according to an announcement on Friday by the Ekaterini Laskaridi Institution, which is …

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Diaspora Review: a rave for the senses by Chamber Made

Diaspora, a production by Chamber Made, sets out to explore the nature of consciousness as society moves closer to the post-human digital realm. It is a concept inspired by Australian …

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Athens suburbia: Return to Nea Smyrni, a neighbourhood gem in Greece

On their way to Sydney from Istanbul in the early ’70s, my parents passed by Athens and bought a small flat – still under construction – in Nea Smyrni, south …

Life

Gourmet Greek products delivered to your doorstep

Every time Vasileios Dachris returned to Australia from holidaying in Greece, he would set out trying to find a piece of home – of the culinary variety – but found …

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Mary Katrantzou’s show draws the eyes of the fashion world to the Temple of Poseidon

Internationally-acclaimed Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou put on an impressive fashion show at the foot of the Temple of Poseidon at Greece’s Cape Sounio in order to raise funds for …

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