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Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni sent out a message to the Greek-Australians on the occasion of her upcoming visit to Australia, calling on the Greeks of the diaspora to visit Greece this year. The minister, who is visiting Australia as of...

The work and holiday visa arrangement between Greece and Australia will be signed on Wednesday, May 14. The visa will be available to young people aged 18 to 30 years old, who want to travel and work in Australia...

The renowned Greek-Australian actor Steve Mouzakis won Best Male Actor at the Green Room Awards for his performance as Lophakhin in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov. The Green Room awards have been organized...

Famous Greek actor Kostas Voutsas has fallen victim to theft on route to Australia with colleagues to tour the play The Desperates, causing the first two performances to be postponed. In transit in Dubai, while being photographed with his fans, Voutsas was relieved of a purse containing his passport,...

A new book, entitled “Thalia,” written by Greek-Australian author Nikos Piperis, talks about one of the most tragic aspects of immigration revealing violent details of young people who were forced to uproot from their homeland against their will. It also...

The Australia First Party organized a rally in solidarity with Greece's neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, but the dozen or so supporters gathered outside Brisbane’s Greek Club were met outside the Consul General of Greece by 200 unionists and supporters of the anti-fascist movement Antifa...

Australian pensioners residing in Greece stand to lose their disability allowance as Canberra prepares for further budget cuts. Some 7,300 Australian disability pensioners living overseas share A$100 million per year in benefits from Canberra. The most popular destination for Aussie pensioners to relocate is Greece,...

A fundraising event that took place on April 29 in the premises of the Cultural Center of the Greek Community of Melbourne yielded the impressive amount of 850,000 dollars. About 130 eminent Greek-Australians attended the event and offered large amounts...

In 1922, the Greek Community of Brisbane, purchased a property on Russell Street, the present Hellenic House. The Church sub-committee’s vision was to turn this property into a Greek Orthodox Church. In 1927, with the help of  the Consul General...

The book of Dr Panayota Nazou, "“Greek ‘Proxy Brides’ in Australia: From Life Experience to Artistic Expression” (1950-1975)" is expected to shed some light on brides of arranged marriages in the Greek Diaspora, as well as the social life...