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Spiders belonging to the Darling Downs funnel-web species can be found throughout eastern Australia, and two out of fourteen recorded people who have been bitten by the venomous arachnid have suffered severe symptoms of poisoning. However, the spider's poisonous...

The Lonsdale Street Greek Festival and the Greek Festival of Sydney have announced that one of Greece’s most popular singing sensations - Eleonora Zouganeli - will be headlining the biggest Greek festivals of 2019. It will be her first-ever Australian...

The driver of a car which plowed into pedestrians on a busy street in central Melbourne in January 2017 was found guilty of six counts of murder on Tuesday. A jury in the Australian city deliberated for just 57 minutes...

The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee participated in a service by the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL Sub-Branch on Sunday in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 1918. The celebration featured the Oakleigh Band, a wreath laying and a Catafalque procession,...

The Andrews administration has promised a grant of $ 2.5 million to the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) for a new centre for seniors and young people, if Andrews is re-elected in the forthcoming state elections, according to the...

Authors, artists, musicians and scholars gathered at the Greek Centre to honor Behrouz Boochani, writer of the novel 'No Friend but the Mountains' and to speak about the current refugee crisis. Boochani appeared live online from the Manus Island Regional Processing...

The town of Burnie in Tasmania, population 20,000, can claim that is the only city outside Greece and Cyprus that is run by a Greek mayor and a Cypriot deputy. Following the October council elections, Steven Kons was elected mayor and...

A man has been arrested after setting a car on fire and stabbing three people - one fatally - in central Melbourne, Australia. The attacker was shot by police after confronting officers on a busy city street, authorities said. He...

Thirty-three-year-old Greek Australian doctor Daniel Christidis was killed by a shark on November 6th, along Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef, after going for a five-day cruise with his friends through the Whitsunday islands, according to Police Inspector Steve O'Connell. Christidis...

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas plans to temporarily move to Australia at the end of the year, relocating in order to prepare for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2019, which will be take place in Melbourne...