Australia

The life of Jim Fouras which took him from a rural Greek village to Speaker of the Queensland Parliament has been remembered by the state's leaders on Wednesday. Demetrios 'Jim' Fouras died aged 83 in November last year, and Premier...

An online petition could be headed to Australia's parliament demanding Canberra recognize the Skopje government as the 'Republic of Macedonia'. Under Australian law, an e-petition has four weeks to gather as many signatures as possible before it is presented by...

Greece's deputy foreign minister, Terens-Nikolaos Quick, was welcomed to Parliament during Question Time in Greek by Greek-Australian Julia Banks MP who is the Federal Member for Chisholm. The warm welcome is the first time that foreign dignitaries have been welcomed in...

The House of Representatives and the Senate of the Australian state of Victoria recently honored a Greek-Australian citizen who had been working as an electrician for almost 50 years. Electrician Yiannis Tremoulas received a special parliamentary tribute for his 48...

Four Greek-Australians won seats in the Australian Parliament. The Greek Labor MP, Maria Vamvakinou was elected in the seat of Calwell in Victoria. In the Senate, Nick Xenophon was triumphantly reelected in South Australia, while Senator Arthur Sinodinos, who has...

There is a genuine concern that Cyprus continues to be occupied by Turkish troops, while hundreds of thousands of settlers are being transferred to the northern Turkish-occupied areas of the island, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of...

Greek Liberal Party member of Parliament (and Shadow Minister) Sophie Mirabella compared the Prime Minster of Australia Julia Gillard to general Kadafi. A lot of people strongly reacted to that statement, so even the Opposition leader Tony Abbott was...

In a speech Maria Vamvakinou addressed the Australian Parliament on multiculturalism.  She accused the two major parties-the Labor government and the Liberal – National Coalition for the abandonment of multiculturalism.  Vamvakinou called on the Federal Parliament to pass a...

Although only two weeks have passed since the Australian elections, it’s not clear which party will govern. The Prime Minister Julia Gillard seems to have an advantage, since the deputy Andrew Wilkie decided to team up with the Labors. The Greek...

After the national elections on August 21st, Petros Georgiou, the Greek liberal deputy and defender of the human rights, will not be present in the new parliament. The election of the labor deputies, Maria Vamavakinou and Steve Georganas, and this...

Thousands of signatures were submitted to the Board of the Commonwealth Parliament in Australia. 20.000 out of the signatures were collected by “Neos Kosmos” with the help of Diaspora organizations and individuals. The signatures were submitted on behalf of the...

Peter Poulos, a Greek-Australian Liberal Party politician, was sworn into office at the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament last Thursday. 

Fiona Barboutis Martin, whose family is from tiny Castellorizo in the southeastern Aegean, was elected as Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party in the marginal federal Sydney seat of Reid in the May 18 elections. Barboutis Martin, a child...

The Greek language preservation issue in Australia was discussed last week at the Federal House of Parliament and at the House of Victoria. In Canberra, Greek-Australian Labor Party MP Maria Vamvakinou proposed the establishment of February 21 as Mother Tongues...

Dafni Trepca, a year 11 student at South Oakleigh College, has won the International Greek Youth Parliament Competition and will address the  Parliament later this year, according to a Neos Kosmos report. Her essay, "The Relevance of Human Rights in...