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Victoria Speaks About Greek National Soccer Team

According to Greek news, diaspora Greeks in Australia were thrilled with the victory of the Greek National Soccer Team. The game, which advanced the Greek team to the final 16 of the World Cup in Brazil, began at six...

Ancient Greece’s First Detective Returns

Gary Corby is an esteemed Australian author whose series of four books about ancient Greece has become a great hit. In the latest installment of the series, “The Marathon Conspiracy,” protagonist Nicolaos, ancient Greece’s first detective, is faced with...

Experimental Drug Saves Greek Baby

A baby boy born in a Melbourne hospital to Greek parents, is still alive due to a medicinal miracle. A few hours after his birth, he became so seriously ill and his life was in such danger that his parents were...

Manos Hadjidakis’ Self-Written Biographical Text

A particularly interesting text written by Manos Hadjidakis entitled “First Person Biography” which he wrote in 1980 in Melbourne, was published in the Greek Diaspora newspaper Neos Kosmos, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the...

The Success Story of a Greek Businesswoman in Australia

Dimitra Markogiannaki was voted one of the" top businesswomen in Australia" a few months ago. On Tuesday night, the company established two years ago by Dimitra Markogiannaki and her partners Cheng Zhu, Kim Huynh and Martin Kemka, won the...

Peter Economides: ‘Being Greek is Again in Fashion’

"Being Greek is back in fashion," claimed the so-called marketing guru, Peter Economides speaking in an event on the Greek crisis organized by the Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI) in Melbourne. Economides said that there has never been...

Dr. Michalis Michael Wins International Peace Award

Dr Michalis Michael is a diaspora Greek teaching at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is the recipient of  this year's International Peace Award by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) of Constantinople. Dr. Michael is awarded for his work as...

Mayor of Thessaloniki to Visit Melbourne

The Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris will visit Melbourne in November in order to celebrate with the Greek Australian community the 30th anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Melbourne and Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The 72-year-old mayor of Greece's second largest city,...

Lecture on ‘Racism in Greek Public Discourse’ in Melbourne

The Ithacan Philanthropic Society in Melbourne will host on Thursday an open lecture by Dr. Efrosini Deligianni on the racist stereotypes and prejudices like xenophobia which have dominated Greek public discourse both at the political and social level. The event "Racist Talk in Greek...

Concurrent Marathon for Stray Animals in Sydney and Athens

The Penny Marathon, an event raising awareness of the the plight of stray, abused and neglected animals in Greece will take place in Athens and Sydney on Sunday July 14th, 2014.