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Hydriot Memories: My neighbour’s expanding house

We Hydriots are a proud, yet prickly, people. Our island is rough hewn and to a degree, so are we, though our hearts are big and our minds quick. I …

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Antarctica experience via a multi-sensory performance

There’s something about Antarctica that is intriguing. While not on one’s list of usual travel destinations, it is a destination at the forefront of conversations around climate change. Thanks to …

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Twenty-year-old choreographer reclaims space for youth in arts

Alex Dellaportas is not your typical 20-year-old. She had just finished high school when she founded Spark Youth Dance Company, a not-for-profit driven entirely by young artists with the purpose …

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Eva Palmer, the American who reinvented herself as an ancient Greek goddess

Eva Palmer (1874–1952) was arguably one of the most inspiring and fascinating women of the 20th century, described as both brilliant and gorgeous with floor-length auburn hair. The American free-thinker, …

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A Greek-Maori musical journey in trance

Taonga püoro means ‘singing treasures’. The term describes something more than just a set of musical instruments – the flutes, gourds, wood and shell trumpets and bull roarers that Maori …

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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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Sustainable fashion helping clean up Greece’s beaches and give refugees new purpose

Between 2015 and 2016 Europe experienced the biggest influx of migrants and refugees it has received since World War II, the majority of which were fleeing from countries in the …

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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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Exclusion of Greek from the Liquorland sign in Oakleigh marks height of ingratitude

One of the elements that make Melbourne special for me, is its plethora of signs in other languages and alphabets that can be found identifying businesses. From Chinese characters employed …

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