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Melbourne's largest Greek street party will paint the city blue and white with a bumper weekend of food, music, dancing and culture, February 10-11. This year’s Festival will be larger than ever, extending further down Lonsdale Street from Swanston Street...

The nurse at the centre of a case of alleged patient abuse in Victoria, that was caught on a camera hidden by the patient’s family, has been stood down. The 30-year-old nurse is being investigated for a number of alleged...

The custom of Momogeroi and the play "I Manassia ki Syrketai" will be presented by the Educational Pontian Association of Agios Dimitrios - Ryakion at the Melbourne Festival "Antipodes". According to Pontos News, the presentation will be done after an...

  A working-holiday visa program which was intended to see hundreds of young Greeks travel and work in Australia has yet to take off, local media are reporting. A memorandum of understanding between Canberra and Athens was to allow 500 Greek...

Greek Australians took part in a demonstration in Melbourne on Sunday to protest what they called the "sellout of Macedonia" and to coincide with a massive rally taking place in Thessaloniki. Organized through Facebook by a group called 'Macedonia is...

Melbourne is the second-largest urban area in Australia after Sydney. It is also one of the most culturally-diverse cities and home to one of the largest Greek diaspora communities in the world; the largest Greek-speaking population outside Greece lives...

Haute Couture in Ancient Greece: The Spectacular Costumes of Ariadne & Helen of Troy at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne, will bring to life the magnificent costumes worn by Minoans and Mycenaeans of Bronze Age Greece ca. 2000 to 1200...

Two influential Greek Australian entrepreneurs who have blazed a trail in their respective fields are now among the country's richest young people. Building magnate Kostas Drakopoulos and fitness guru Kayla Itsines have featured in the Financial Review's Young Rich list for...

Australian audiences are getting ready for legendary Greek musician Giannis Haroulis who is bringing his popular mix of Cretan music, blended with folk and modern Greek pop, to Sydney. The 36th Sydney Greek Festival is to be held at Darling...

A grassroots organization of young overseas Cypriots is running its annual Discover Cyprus Programme in a bid to bring young people from the diaspora closer to their heritage. NEPOMAK is offering those aged 18 to 22 the chance to visit...