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Celebrating the volunteers of PRONIA

As part of the National Volunteer Week, on Tuesday 18 May PRONIA celebrated its own volunteer in a very warm and moving event in the ‘Odysseas’ hall of the Ithacan …

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Anastero ta Palia: I remember the past

  “Anastero ta Palia: I remember the past“. The opening words of a traditional Pontian song of mourning summarises the annual Greek Genocide Commemoration at the Marana Hall in Hurstville, …

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Melburnians take a shine to Metamorphosis exhibition

On Wednesday, the Greek Australian Cultural League (GACL) went on to the streets of Melbourne to gauge people’s reactions to this year’s Antipodean Palette 2021 exhibition entitled “Metamorphosis” which is …

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Injury-plagued Spartans fall but need to recover against St Bernards

It was a wet, windy Saturday on which the Hawthorn Spartans suffered another defeat, this time against the team that was immediately above them on the log University Blacks with …

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Greek Centre drenched in red light to commemorate Greek Genocide of Pontus Remembrance Day

A red light drenched the Greek Centre on Lonsdale Street at Melbourne’s CBD on 19 May, symbolic of the 353,000 people who were killed by the Ottoman Turks. Greek Community …

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Vale John Roubos, the man who captured 50 years of local history

The Greek community of Melbourne was saddened to hear of the sudden passing of one of its most well known community photographers and cinematographers, present at so many gatherings. A …

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Pankoaki Brotherhood celebrates Mother’s Day with gifts of roses

The Pankoaki Brotherhood celebrated Mother’s Day recently with a long-stemmed rose for each mother who was present on the day but pride of place went to the oldest mother present, …

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Migrants, siblings, assets abroad and inheritance disputes which could be avoided

Plutarch refers to the invention of the written Will by Athenian statesman Solon, known for having legislated against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. It is fitting that …

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Synod calls for the ABC to issue an apology to Archbishop Makarios

The 9th Meeting of Bishops and Archiepiscopal Vicars of Australia took place between the 13 and 14 of May, under the Presidency of Archbishop Makarios of Australia in Sydney. After …

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Why we should never forget the Pontian Genocide of 1919

More than 100 years from the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, yet the memory of lost homelands and the pain burn still in the hearts of the Pontian’s around …

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