Australia
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Aussie renters hold the key to low voter turn-out at federal election
In the weeks after the 2019 federal election, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the turn-out of voters was the lowest since the introduction of compulsory voting in 1925. It …
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Make sure your fingerprints aren’t all over it
“…when Antony and Dolabella were accused to him of plotting revolution, Caesar said: ‘I am not much in fear of these fat, long-haired fellows, but rather of those pale, thin …
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Immigration Museum: Adrift or a new path?
A report appeared in the Herald Sun on July 19 that alerted readers to a proposed name-change for the Immigration Museum to Museum of Shared Humanity. The Immigration Museum’s current …
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Immigration Museum’s General Manager says name change not on cards – as yet
Language is important. This is the clear message from the uproar that has arisen as a result of a Herald Sun report, indicating the Immigration Museum was allegedly looking to …
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Angela Gerekou appointed as Greek tourism chief – but will she be the one to tap into Australia’s potential?
A change of guard in the Greek government may have opened new opportunities for tourism to Greece from Australia. The appointment of former actress Angela Gerekou as the new president …
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Victorian MP Jenny Mikakos meets with Antonis Diamataris, the new Greek Deputy Foreign Minister for Greeks Abroad
A two-week personal holiday to Greece was the opportunity for Victoria’s Health Minister Jenny Mikakos to hold a series of meetings with officials of the new Greek government. She met …
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Health Minister Jenny Mikakos went on a Greek vay-cay and came back with a huge scoop for Australia
The Greek government has promised Australia a huge antiquities exhibition for 2021 to coincide with 200 years since Greek Independence in 1821. Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, the Victorian MP who …
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Greek PM Mitsotakis sets voting rights of Greeks abroad as a government priority
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that the new electoral law will be debated by political parties in Parliament, however the granting of voting rights to Greeks living …
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Schedule of Archbishop Makarios’ visit to Melbourne
Australia’s recently-appointed Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios is arriving in Melbourne on Saturday. The official program of the Archbishop’s visit was released on Tuesday and is jam-packed until his departure on …
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NSW becomes the last Australian state to decriminalise abortion amid objections
Independent MP Alex Greenwich introduced a historic Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill to decriminalise terminations of pregnancy as hundreds of anti-abortion protestors rallied outside NSW Parliament on Thursday. MPs at …