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Melpomeni, Koraly Show Set For Melbourne

Melbourne-born artists Melpomeni and Koraly will come together on April 22 for an evening of collaboration which will see Koraly’s spoken word woven into Melpomeni’s chilling music taking the audience on a journey of love, loss and freedom. Melpomeni will perform songs from her first album, 8 Tragedies, 2 Love Songs and a Breakdown and [...]

Petition to Keep Golden Dawn Out of Australia

Greek-Australian Alex Kakafikas has launched a petition campaign online against allowing Greek Golden Dawn party members to come to Australia, where according to information they are planning to open an office. The petition asks Brendan O’Connor, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, to refuse MPs of the Greek far-right party to enter the country due to [...]

Ambassador Dafaranos Calls for Investments in Greece

Greek Ambassador to Australia Charalambos Dafaranos, outlined in his interview to The Deal  Magazine of the Australian Daily that Australian businessmen and investors should look beyond the current economic upheaval plaguing Greece and rather focus on the new possibilities emerging in the fields of investments and commerce. Dafaranos sounded optimistic about the future of the [...]

Piers Festival of Melbourne Marks Diversity

Victoria will celebrate for the second year in a row its cultural diversity and history of migration connected with Melbourne’s two piers on Jan. 27 in the port. The Piers Festival 2013 links in with Victoria’s Australia Day and presents music, dance and food from around the world, arts and crafts, photo and historical exhibitions, [...]

Modern Greek in Australian Schools Curriculum

A Federal Member for Calwell, Maria Vamvakinou and for Hindmarsh, Steve Georganas welcomed the decision of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) to include Modern Greek in the National School Curriculum as a Second Language instead of being taught only to those students who already have an understanding of the language. Vamvakinou noted [...]

Kontouris Wins IDEA People’s Choice Award

Greek-Australian Helen Kontouris has for a second time won the People’s Choice Award at the IDEA Awards (Interior Design Excellence Awards) which are Australia’s largest and most successful independent design awards program. She also won in 2009. According to the IDEA official website, Kontouris’ entry this year in the Object – Furniture and Lighting category [...]

Channel Ten Sacks Greek Newsreader Helen Kapalos

Channel Ten newsreader Greek Helen Kapalos has been sacked by the network in a staff cuts plan that aims to battle the massive slupm in ratings. Kapalos had become popular as the news presenterer over the past six years, but the network decided not to renew her contract for the following year. Now her co-presenter [...]

Suspect Held in Argyropoulos Murder in Sydney

New South Wales police investigations have led to the arrest of a suspect that is allegedly involved in the targeted murder of Greek-Australian Nikolas Argyropoulos last March in Ballast Point Park in Sydney. The 24-year-old Argyropoulos, from Earlwood, in Sydney’s south, was found dead from a gun shot wound in the face, and his body was [...]