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Dialogue –
Why Dan will win: In a crisis we want to be led
In the hit series Boss, Chicago mayor Tom Kane, played by Kelsey Grammer, reflects on a foundational mayor of that great city, Anton Cermak, who brought together the warring tribes, …
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Position for Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas’ opens at the University of Melbourne
After several years of lead up work by the Greek Community of Melbourne, finally a position for a ‘Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas’ at the University of Melbourne has …
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Irina Karamanos: partner of Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, to dump ‘first lady’ title
Irina Karamanos is the partner of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric. Socialist, Mr Gabriel Boric won a convincing victory on 19 December. Gabriel Boric, won on a promise of social and …
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NSW records 5,715 new COVID cases -Victoria jumps over 2,000
COVID-19 cases are rapidly multiplying across the Australia as individual states opt for no further restrictions ahead of the holidays. It appears that the Omicron variant is becoming the dominant …
Features –
The Hellenic Sailors of Kephalos Bay – on service with the Cable Ship Levant II at Gallipoli
For many years now I have been researching and writing about the Hellenic link to Australia’s Anzac story. The roots of this link can be found in the role of …
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Young Boris Johnson was passionately advocating for the return of the Parthenon marbles
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has recently been to the UK, campaigning for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. His efforts have reinvigorated the interest of the media on the …
Sport –
Giannis Antetokounmpo secures ‘Greek Freak’ trademark
Two time MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo won a court case last week pertaining to the use of the ‘Greek Freak’ nickname, image and likeness rights. Antetokounmpo’s alias had been misappropriated and …
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Greece tolls up over 20,000 COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic
According to Greece’s National Organization for Public Health (EODY) the country recorded 6,424 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours to Tuesday 3pm. The numbers came through 555,381 tests, …
Dialogue –
Bill Papastergiadis OAM on the Assyrians, the VMC and the Greek Community
Multiculturalism is the bedrock upon which Melbourne and Australia’s society is built on. As a Commissioner of the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC), I had the opportunity to recently address a …
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Morrison says Australians will ‘self regulate’ COVID more in the months ahead
The arrival and spread of Omicron is the latest twist in Australia’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in some ways it is reminiscent of earlier times. The uncertainty and fear …