Recent

News

British Museum deputy director seeks a ‘Parthenon partnership’ with Greece on the Marbles

The British Museum has made overtures to returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece when one of its most senior executives called for a “Parthenon partnership” with Athens, as reported in …

News

Albanese: Indigenous Voice to Parliament is about “common decency”

The prime minister’s address to Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday was met with a standing ovation from the crowd. Anthony Albanese unveiled the wording of a draft referendum …

Features

100 years in a lifetime and a marker of modern Greek history

Pelagia Iakovidou (née Pavlidou), recently turned 100. Her long life is part of the narrative of modern Greek history. Still in her mother’s womb in the summer of 1922, her …

News

Dalidakis: “You may have been writing my obituary”

“Instead of doing this interview, you may have been writing my obituary,” Philip Dalidakis said over the phone. “And it’s not Jewish-Greek fatalism” laughed the former Victorian government minister, “this …

News

Nola Karapanagiotidis, the first Greek Australian woman to become County Court Judge

The County Court of Victoria officially welcomed newly appointed Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis on Thursday, the first Greek Australian woman to become a County Court Judge. Newly sworn in Judge Karapanagiotidis …

Advertisement

News

Greek inferno as wildfires rage – major ecological and economic cost

Greece’s summer fire season began May 1 and ends October 31. Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ramped-up fire preparations early this year, to avoid any criticism of government failings in dealing …

News

Phone tapping case to be discussed in parliament

The major Greek masthead Kathimerini has reported that an extraordinary meeting of the Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee was scheduled to be convened on Friday to discuss the allegations by …

News

Greece and Cyprus try to dial down East Med tensions

Greece and Cyprus accused Turkey on Thursday (Greece time) of stoking tensions as Ankara prepared to dispatch a drillship to the Mediterranean next month in a search for natural gas. …

News

Open Horizons advisory group acknowledged by Melbourne Museum

Open Horizons – Ancient Greek Journeys and Connections, Advisory Group was presented with plaques acknowledging their work of the exhibition at a ceremony last Thursday at Melbourne Museum. Lynley Crosswell …

News

Bank of Greece forecasts higher growth in Greek economy

The Bank of Greece (BoG) says its forecasts reveal a much healthier economic outlook for Greece in 2022, mainly due to very high tourism yield, with revenues expected to surpass …

Advertisement