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Kate Hudson reveals Greece as her favourite holiday destination: ‘I feel really at home there’
Greece is popular holiday destination with a number of A-list celebrities, one of them being American actor and co-founder of workout brand Fabletics, Kate Hudson. In an interview with fashion …
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Letter: A fair go for pensioners
I write on behalf of the Fair Go for Pensioners Coalition of which the Federation of Greek Australian pensioner clubs – some 100 with over 20,00 members, and the Ethnic …
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LEFKAΔΑ: a landscape transformed into soundscape
‘Lefkada’ means ‘whiteness’. The Ionian island took this name after its southern cape, which in ancient times was called ‘White Rock’. It is an appropriate name for the steep, rocky …
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Meet the first woman to translate ‘The Odyssey’ into English
Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer’s The Odyssey into English, is heading to Melbourne. Next month she will be involved in a special event at the Wheeler Centre, …
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112-year-old Greek woman, not the oldest in the world
Following the death of the world’s oldest person on Saturday, Japan’s 117-year-old Nabi Tajima, reports have been circulating around the world about the new title holder of ‘Oldest Woman in …
Dialogue –
Turkey Targeting Greece – again
With the illegal seizures and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974 and the Syrian city of Afrin this March — with virtually no global reaction — Turkey apparently feels unchallenged …
Dialogue –
Greek boys will be Greek boys
I bullied a person once. I was about 14 years old at the place where my family would usually spend summer vacations; I was swimming with a bunch of friends …
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Open lecture: the roots of rebetika
Rebetika is experiencing a resurgence. To help us understand the roots of the genre, Dr Demeter Tsounis will present an open lecture at the Greek Centre as part of the …
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How Greek theatre is reducing the stigma surrounding disability
“The word ‘theatre’ comes from the Greeks; it means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.” Legendary acting …
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From South Gippsland to Lemnos
Late last year I was standing in the old Memorial Hall at Koonwarra in South Gippsland looking at a photograph of a young digger – one part of the Hellenic …