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Being able to skip classes improves some students’ performance. Others struggle with more autonomy
Remote learning online has been a common tool in the battle against COVID-19. School and university campus closures have affected over 1.5 billion learners in 165 countries. The reduced need …
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Celebrating our unsung heroes on Aged Care Employee Day
PRONIA is very pleased to be celebrating its Community Care Workers on the occasion of Aged Care Employee Day (ACED 2021) on Saturday, 7 August, 2021. This year, the organisation …
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Greek-Australian sports offering is greatly in need of a touch-up
In 1998, AHEPA NSW created a committee for the erection of a monument at the Olympic Village of Sydney. The late Tasha Vanos presided over the Hellenic Tribute Committee which …
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Olympics round up: Australia equals Athens 2004 gold tally, Greece misses a pole vault podium finish
The week started off with a bang for team Greece, as Miltiadis Tentoglou won the country’s second gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The 23-year old competed in the men’s …
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“We can never repay Greece,” says Philhellene Stephen Fry
“It is quite fashionable these days to say the Greeks didn’t invent democracy or rhetoric or logic or mathematics,” Philhellene Stephen Fry told businessman David Hill, speaking to Greek Australians …
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Wollongong Council apologises for Sun of Vergina flag-hoisting mistake
A flag bearing the Sun of Vergina was hoisted by Wollongong Council in NSW to commemorate the Ilinden Uprising, which was aimed at creating a so-called autonomous “Macedonia”. The uprising …
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Australians living abroad will no longer be able to travel back and forth as outbreaks grow
COVID-19 outbreaks around Australia have sparked more concerns about border closures, further curtailing international travel. Australians who live overseas will no longer be granted automatic permission to leave the country. …
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SOS! Fire fronts at Varymbombi in Greece are raging out of control, agony in Messenia as the country is engulfed in flames
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the devastating fires around Greece reveal “the reality of climate change”. “If there are even few people who have reservations about whether climate change …
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Olympiacos ties in the nick of time during Champions League qualifiers
Olympiacos managed to avoid overall defeat at Karaiskaki Stadium in the first match of the third qualifying round of the Champions League. On Wednesday, visitors Ludogorets proved to be tough …
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Snap Lockdown 6.0 kicks off at 8pm tonight
Victoria will be plunged into a seven-day lockdown from 8pm tonight. Premier Daniel Andrews claimed the emergence of two mystery cases meant the state had no option but to lock …