Australia
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Australian media and academia riding the #MeToo movement
It’s been eight months since the Harvey Weinstein scandal took Hollywood by storm, creating a chain reaction to the film industry as a whole. Australia could not remain unaffected and …
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Preston Market gets ready to honour area’s Greek population
Following on from the success of the Preston Market’s Big Fat Greek Day in 2017, the event is back, and is set to be bigger and fatter than the last. …
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Gargasoulas believes he is ‘the second coming of Christ’, psychiatrist reveals
James Dimitrious Gargasoulas accused of killing six people in a rampage in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall on 20 January 2017, is said to be mentally unfit to stand trial. In …
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A dream comes true: Greek Australians purchase equipment for Greek hospital
The members of the Australian Hellenic Medical Charity Inc. (AHMCI), which was conceptualised and registered 18 months ago with a sole purpose of raising funds to support hospitals in Greece, …
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Seventeen Greek Australians awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours
A number of Greek Australians were honoured in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for Australia. Presented on 11 June by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, the 17 honourees represent a wide variety of professions, …
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La Trobe condemns Modern Greek Studies program to a slow death
La Trobe University has a mission. In its vision statement it proclaims: “Advancing knowledge and learning to shape the future of our students and communities”. It sounds commendable, but as …
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‘We are the first who said that we’ll remove the level crossings and we did it’
“I’m not a champion of level crossings” Steve Dimopoulos says, when we start talking, but anyone following the Labor MP on Facebook may have a different view. For the past …
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New board for the Lemnian Community of Victoria
The Lemnian Community of Victoria elected a new committee on Sunday, at the organisation’s General Meeting. Two days later the new committee – consisting of eleven members: Penny Angelidis, Jim …
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Mikakos urges Hellenes to support Corbyn for return of Parthenon Marbles
Minister for Youth Affairs Jenny Mikakos MP is urging Greeks throughout the diaspora,particularly those living in Britain, to throw their support behind British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s push for the …
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Who killed the two Greek-Australian boys in Greece?
The report, issued by district attorney Panagiotis Angelopoulos in 1999 and handed over to the Karalis family in Melbourne only recently, is clear: “from the depositions of the witnesses and …