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Chris Soteriou, the Greek-Australian businessman who was stabbed in 2010 by his then wife’s lover on his birthday, described the night his former wife and her lover attempted to kill him. His former wife, Vicky Soteriou, and her lover, Aris...

The discus thrower, or Discobolus, is one of the most famous ancient Greek statues. Its photograph has been included in hundreds of books and most importantly it was used to promote the 1948 Olympic Games in London. However, the original...

The “Selling An American Dream: Australia’s Greek Café” exhibit will be returning to Sydney’s Hurstville Museum and Gallery from August 2 to September 28, 2014. Curator and historian Leonard Janiszewski and photographer Effy Alexakis have documented the historical and contemporary...

Greek football player Vangelis Moras moved thousands of people in Greece and Australia when he decided to donate bone marrow to save his ill brother. Moras, a player for the Greek national team and Italian team Hellas Verona, will travel...

More than 100,000 dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from a Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne. Members of the Greek community were devastated, because the items had been left in the church over the years as gifts to the...

"Open House Melbourne", one of the major international institutions for the promotion of architecture, will be held for the sixth consecutive year in Melbourne, on July 26 and 27. Public and private buildings in Melbourne will open their doors free...

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,...

An ancient Greek mug, dated about 330-320BC, has been gifted to the University of Canterbury’s James Logie Memorial Collection. The mug is one of seven precious artefacts from ancient Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia that have been donated to the university...

Intralot Australia signed the renewal contracts with Western Australia’s Lotterywest (Lotteries Commission of Western Australia) for three more years, with the possibility of two additional one-year renewals. Therefore, the company will continue to provide technology and related services to Lotterywest until...

A study analysis conducted by Fairfax Media showed that three out of ten people in Melbourne speak a language other than English when they return to their homes. In fact, according to the relevant data, 251 languages from all...