Lydia Lassila laid on the snow in Turin four years ago with her left knee shattered while her Olympic hopes faded away. She didn’t give up, although it would have been easy.
Four years later she won the gold medal in aerial skiing. Lassila took home the gold in the aerials, Australia’s second gold medal win, [...]

A recent publication, Greek Rich List, has conducted a list with the richest people of Greek descent in Australia. We publish the first five names of the list. You can find the full list here.
1. Con and Ross Makris (AUD $1.1 billion)
Con and his son, Ross shared a lot of success in building and developing [...]

THERE are tomatoes and then there are serious tomatoes.
Not content with your average 100g tom, Narraweena gardeners Rosa and Benito Albace (foto) have been growing a variety from Greece that produces fruit up to 14cm wide and weigh in at a monumental 800g each.
Mrs Albace, a great-grandmother of nine, said there were plenty of ways [...]

Four Greek nightclub staff accused of fatally beating a young Australian tourist a year ago went on trial Wednesday on the Aegean island of Lesbos, a judicial source said.
A 25-year-old club bouncer has been charged with voluntary homicide and three other staff have been charged as accessories in the death of 20-year-old Doujon Zammit, who [...]

Greek Australian building industry figure Jim Moschoyiannis (foto) is alleged to have been one of two people bashed by Mick Gatto over a building industry turf war, according to a front page report in The Sunday Age on January 10.
The report has been denied by all parties alleged to have been involved in the incident. [...]

Sessions of the annual congress of Cretans of Australian and New Zealand – the 30th in succession – was held in Canberra, Australia, on January 7-10. Delegates began arriving last Thursday and that evening there was an event to facilitate young Cretans becoming acquainted with one another. Dance groups and traditional musicians from other Australian [...]

Adelaide’s own original, instrumental and eclectic seven piece band Akoustic Odyssey, led by Greek-Australian Jason Tsounis, are coming to Melbourne to perform at the end of this month.
After their very successful performances at WOMADelaide, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and The National Folk Festival in Canberra last year, Akoustic Odyssey have been busy composing, rehearsing, recording [...]

A 12-year-old Craigieburn girl has died after being pulled into deep sea by a riptide.
Tina Eustace (foto) was playing in shallow water with her sister Helen, 14, and friend Monique, 14, at Gippsland’s Loch Sport on Sunday January 3rd when all three were unexpectedly drawn into deeper water.
Tina’s mother, Carmen, had only turned her back [...]