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A festival with Greek dances, theatre and live music was held on August 24 at a Woollahra Municipal Council venue, exciting thousands of visitors. The cultural festival "Greek Day Out" was organized by the Woollahra Council and the Consulate General in Sydney...

Two Golden Dawn MPs have been scheduled to visit Australia, according to the far-right party’s spokesman. The two former army officers are going to speak in Melbourne and Sydney in October 2014. Golden Dawn is the most controversial political party in Greece....

One of the most historic theaters in Melbourne, which had been showing Greek films for decades, will shut down permanently in 2015. Astor theater was built in 1936 and during the 60s, 70s and 80s used to operate as a Greek...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has launched an investigation regarding the income and property that members of the Greek Diaspora have in Greece. Greek-Australians have a deadline until December 2014 to voluntarily declare all their homeland assets in order...

A car crashed through the window of a Greek owned souvlaki shop in Hughsdale, Melbourne, on Monday just before 11am. Angelo Cosmas, the Greek-Australian owner was lucky to have survived as he was inside the shop when the car crashed into...

One hundred and seventeen years ago, 57 Greeks who were living in Melbourne decided to create the Greek Community of Melbourne, without knowing that it would later become one of the largest and most historical Greek Diaspora organizations in...

Following the example of the Greek-Australian Nick Giannopoulos who shot the movie "Kings of Mykonos" in the cosmopolitan Greek island, Peter Paroulakis and his daughter Helene decided to film a new movie in the island. The film entitled "As Greek as...

According to researchers Leonard Janiszewski and Effy Alexakis of Macquarie University who decided to track down the origins of the milk bar, more than 80 years ago, a Greek migrant, Joachim Tavlaridis, is responsible for the creation of the...

An exhibition entitled "A journey in time through art", organized by the Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) in the Embassy of Greece in Melbourne and Canberra, presented Greek tourism posters. The exhibition was held on the occasion of Greek Tourism Minister Olga...

The Australian Ministry of Migration and Border Protection released official statistical data which show that 33,951 Greeks migrated to Australia from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Most of the people who migrated to the country were either Australian...