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Action for Athens

Tonight, Melbourne’s Greek Centre will hold a fundraising event for the wildfire victims in Greece. The benefit will be broadcast live on ABC Radio Melbourne & Victoria and it will be …

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Greece calls for tourists to demand receipts and use POS

Greece’s independent public revenues authority has just launched a new campaign reminding the millions of tourists flooding the country to help the economy by asking for receipts. “Apodixi (receipt) please!” …

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Turkey releases Greek servicemen

The two Greek officers who were being held in a high security prison in Edirne for 167 days, have finally been released, Anadolu agency reported yesterday. Lieutenant Angelos Mitretodis and …

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Milk bar memories surface in Kythera

Photographer Effy Alexakis and historian Leonard Janiszewski took a significant piece of Greek Australian history back to where it all began for many families and individuals who left for Australia …

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Campaign seeks to scrap ‘bloody annoying’ tampon tax

It’s been roughly two decades since the GST consumption tax was introduced, and the non-exemption of sanitary products, as they remain classified under the… “luxury” bracket, is still being debated. …

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Oakleigh Carnegie RSL welcomes the ‘Anzacs on the Acropolis’

Last Sunday saw the gifting and unveiling in the heart of Melbourne’s Greek community of one of the most iconic photographs depicting the Hellenic link to Anzac. The photograph was …

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Sky News head Angelo Frangopoulos cancels program that featured far-right extremist

Sky News faced a week of major outrage, after The Adam Giles Show featured an interview with far-right extremist Blaire Cottrell, who shared his opinions on immigration. The former leader …

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Taxi drivers accuse the government of throwing a lifetime of labour in the bin

Not many of us are sitting around the table when the meeting takes place, but the room is heavy with rage, disappointment, frustration for an “unprecedented injustice” that hasn’t happened …

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Rallying to raise awareness and funds for Kidney disease

One in three Australians is at an increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease, and George Papadopoulos is that ‘one’. “My dad has stage four kidney disease and is waiting …

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Sydney Greek bakery is philotimo in action

The tragic scenes that were broadcast around the world as forest fires broke out east of Athens on 23 July, deeply affected Greeks across the disapora. Among those who have …

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