Australia
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Four people die in Australian waterways
It’s been a deadly Christmas weekend across Australian beaches and lakes, with four people drowning in separate incidents. Three Victorians and a South Australian woman have drowned in a deadly …
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Australians feeling the heat on Boxing Day
Boxing Day’s forecast sweltering heat is off to an early start with the mercury speeding past 20C in most Australian capitals early in the day. A heatwave expected to last …
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Not all Greek Australians will be celebrating Xmas
For most Greek Australians Christmas will be marked by family and friends coming together, however according to Yannis Pilalidis from the Archdiocese’s Welfare Centre some will be suffer from a …
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Chanukah the 2000-year-old war between Greeks and Jews is now a bridge of trust
On the balmy evening of Wednesday 21 December, the fourth day of Chanukah, Rabbi Gabbi Kaltman the organiser and host of Pillars of Light celebration in Federation Square said, “22 …
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Mystery Greek-looking statue placed overnight, then removed by Gold Coast Council
Just a few days after it was placed in secrecy at Gold Coast’s iconic Burleigh Hill, a Greek-looking sculpture of a woman was removed by authorities. The artefact was reportedly …
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Brooks: “The Greek community feels like family to me”
Colin Brooks the new Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs spoke to Neos Kosmos last night at the Greek Centre event in honour of the achievements of Greek Australian VCE students. …
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Rudd to replace Sinodinos as Ambassador to the US
Former Labor prime minister, then foreign minister, Dr. Kevin Rudd will replace Arthur Sinodinos AO as Ambassador to the United States. Mr Sinodinos a former Liberal politician and chief of …
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Refunds still being processed for cancelled Paola tour ticket holders
It would have been her first visit to Australia since 2017. Paola – for many Greece’s queen of contemporary laiko – had an Australian tour scheduled for September 2022 with …
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Local responses to the World Cup Final
Those of us unfortunates who could not to witness the World Cup live in Qatar were rewarded by a spectacular final on our screens. France’s Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi …
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SA Government offers grants of up to $100,000 to multicultural organisations under Expand Together program
The first round of applications is open for the South Australian government’s ‘Expand Together’ grant program under its 2023-24 Multicultural Grants Program. The grants provide one-off funding to eligible multicultural …