Australia

The Coordinating Committee of Justice for Cyprus (SEKA) organized a protest rally which took place in the Greek neighborhood of Lonsdale Street in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday. The assembled protesters decried the recent Turkish incursions onto Cyprus' EEZ and...

The Chambers of Commerce of the Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian diasporas in Australia are preparing an action plan to promote trade and investment relations with their three respective countries. According to Photis Photiou, the Cypriot Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs...

The Cypriot community of Australia including the Justice for Cyprus Coordination Committee SA (SEKA), in association with the Cyprus Community of SA, is organizing a series of memorial events to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the Turkish invasion of...

The Greek-Cypriot Community of Melbourne participated in the commemoration march on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus. The Greek Cypriot community of Melbourne gathered outside the state parliament of Victoria, on Sunday,...

The annual conference of the Federation of Cyprus Communities of Australia and New Zealand, the Pan-Australian Justice for Cyprus Coordinating Committee (PASEKA) and the Cypriot Youth (NEPOMAK) was held between February 14 and 16, in Melbourne. This year’s conference was...

The Parliament of South Australia decided to re-establish the South Australia-Cyprus Parliamentary Friendship Committee. During the first session of the Committee, its members were informed on current affairs of the ambassador of Cyprus in Australia, Yiannis Iacovou. Many personalities...

“Cyprus should be defined by the blue of the encircling Mediterranean Sea rather than the Green Line, which marks an occupation that should not exist there,” Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party...

A march was held in the center of Melbourne, which marked the end of events for the 39th anniversary of the July 15, 1974 coup against Archbishop Makarios, the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the ongoing occupation...

The Minister for Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Petros Petridis, will represent the Cypriot government during the events for the 39th anniversary of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus in 1974. The events, which will be held in various state...

The President of Australian Senate John Hogg will pay Cyprus an official four-day visit, as head of a delegation. The visit comes after an invitation by the President of the Cyprus House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou. According to an official...

“Australia stands unwaveringly by the Cypriot Republic,” said Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the Australian Labor Party, during a celebration in Melbourne to mark its holding of the rotating European Union Presidency in the last...

Greek-Australians submitted proposals on the financial support of Greece and Cyprus. The initiative taken by the Cypriot Community of New South Wales and in the presence of His Excellency, The High Commissioner for Cyprus Yiannis Iacovou, an open gathering...

A brouhaha has developed in Australia where critics of new taxes have said they are similar to the confiscation of big bank accounts on Cyprus, where the government is seizing up to 80 percent of accounts over 100,000 euros...

According to the Australian press, the international economy is in anxiety because of the unpredictable turn of the Cypriot financial crisis after the Parliament's rejection of the deposits’ haircut proposal. The newspaper Australian Financial Review explores the causes of the...

The United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of Cyprus, Alexander Downer is among the Australian depositors who will lose money under the new bank depositors’ tax, if it prevails. The Australian former minister for Foreign Affairs told the Australian media that he...