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PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis invades pitch with holstered gun!

A disputed goal at the end of a Sunday’s Greek League game between leader AEK and title rival PAOK led to a pitch invasion by PAOK’s owner, Ivan Savvidis, who …

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Greek Australian BBQ dinner at Cam’s by the hand of Ella Mittas

As part of Melbourne Design Week, Greek Australian chef Ella Mittas creates a dinner around the theme of ‘Australianness’, inspired by the ubiquitous Aussie BBQ. The dinner event coincides with …

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Exodus 1826 to have Australian premiere

As part of commemorations by Brisbane’s Greek community for Greece’s National Day of Independence, Exodus 1826: A Road of No Return (2017) will make its Australian premiere. Screening at the …

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Students from 1st Voula Junior High School in Athens visit sister school Alphington Grammar

Four years ago Christina Despoteris initiated an e-twinning relationship between Alphington Grammar School in Melbourne and the 1st Junior High School in Voula Athens via the program ‘Voula/Melbourne – Building …

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Anti-Greek protest in Ankara

An anti-Greek protest was held in Ankara on Wednesday, when a group of Turkish nationalists gathered outside of the Hellenic Embassy. The “Morality Foundation for Art and Science” claimed that …

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Dr Melissa Petrakis: “I’m pleased to be part of a fabric of diversity”

When Melissa Petrakis’ mother was about to migrate from England, her father paid for her to get a hairdressing qualification, so that when she moved to Australia she would have …

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Oakleigh Grammar teenager earns Pararoos call-up

It may be a long way from Melbourne to Madrid. And that’s the soccer journey 18-year-old Oakleigh Grammar student Con Christodoulou may find himself taking next year if he wins …

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Australia’s first Greek vegan bakery

Many great things have come to be born out of adversity, and Pavlos Katsivardas and his family can attest to this. He and his wife decided to move to Australia …

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New York mourns passing of financial district’s iconic Greek cobbler

For more than four decades, Lower East Side New Yorkers have been trusting their shoes to the hands of a Greek legend. Minas Polychronakis. The Greek-American cobbler passed on Wednesday, …

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‘Greek mythology teaches us how to live in the real world’

Harry James Angus knows all about blending cultures. As a member of popular band Cat Empire, he’s mixed rock, pop, soul, funk, jazz and a series of other musical styles …

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