Dateline’s one-hour SBS program entitled, Rise of the Neo-Nazis, aired on May 21, aimed at finding reasons for the growing popularity of a party that is anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-gay, ultra-religious and jingoistic. Reporter Evan Williams said, “The rise of Golden Dawn, a party which openly supports anti-Semitism and racism and is associated with violent attacks [...]
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Nick Xenophon to Form Political Party
South Australian independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, is one of the most powerful politicians of the Australian political scene, as his vote determines whether a draft law is rejected or voted. Xenophon, who was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Greek and Greek Cypriot migrants, is now seeking to register his own political party in an [...]
Tsipras Wants The Diaspora To Vote
“The vote of Diaspora Greeks in the Greek national elections should be consolidated, but in a way that ensures the unadulterated inflection of the political relations in Greece.” This is what the leader of Greece’s major opposition party, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) Alexis Tsipras highlights, in an interview with the Greek newspaper [...]
Evangel Supports Gay Marriage, But Not Rail
The Greek-Australian politician Eleni Evangel is showing she’s outspoken, first opposing Premier Colin Barnett’s plan to put a light rail line through the city’s malls and now in supporting gay marriage although her party opposes it. Evangel is an Australian politician of Greek decent who is the member-elect for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat [...]
Koutsantonis Possible Labor Party Leader
According to the newspaper The Australian, Tom Koutsantonis of Greek descent, Minister in South Australia, is one of the most notable officials of the South Australian Labor Party and has a lot of chances of becoming its leader. The newspaper reports that all new, up-and-coming politicians are ambitious to become future leaders of their political [...]
Prime Minister Gillard Supports Cyprus
“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 half of 2012. Talking about the bilateral relations, Gillard stressed that Australia stands solidly behind Cyprus [...]
Tsipras’ Forthcoming Trip to Australia
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, is planning to visit Australia in the next months, as Kostas Isichos, executive of the party revealed. “My trip will not be the last. I hope that the President of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, will be able to visit Australia in 2013”, Isichos stated in an interview to the Greek Radio [...]
Australian Pension Tax Likened To Cyprus
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 ($130,000) on the orders of international lenders to secure a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) bailout. [...]
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05 / 22 Nick Xenophon to Form Political Party
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05 / 22 Society of Friends of Greek Culture Founded in Perth
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05 / 21 Medals to Aussies Who Fought in Battle of Crete
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05 / 20 Greek-Australian Sisters Organize Penny Marathon 2013
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05 / 20 Greek- Aborigine Receives Scots College Scholarship
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05 / 20 Turkey Disturbed by Recognition of Pontian Genocide
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05 / 22 Golden Dawn’s Scary Rise Chronicled
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05 / 15 Australia to Receive 190,000 Immigrants
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05 / 20 Greek- Aborigine Receives Scots College Scholarship
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05 / 15 Five Million Dollars to Soundproof Greek Church
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05 / 22 Queensland’s Premier at Paniyiri Greek Festival
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05 / 22 Nick Xenophon to Form Political Party
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05 / 22 Society of Friends of Greek Culture Founded in Perth
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05 / 21 Medals to Aussies Who Fought in Battle of Crete
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05 / 20 Greek-Australian Sisters Organize Penny Marathon 2013
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