Melbourne

This year, the highest academic award in Australia, the ARC Laureate Fellowship, was awarded to Greek-Australian Joy Damousi, history professor and head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Damousi is the first female academic of...

Greek store Hellas Cakes in Melbourne, Australia, has catered some of the most prestigious parties and supplied many local cafes with delicious kourabiethes, baklava and galaktoboureka. For 52 years, the shop is a reference point of the city and is associated with...

Greek-Australian company Structural Challenge, from the University of Monash in Melbourne, has been named best architectural company of the year in Victoria and Tasmania by the Australian Institute of Steel Construction. The company was awarded for a pioneering steel construction, not...

Makis Marmaridis belongs to the second generation of Greek immigrants to Australia, "the successful generation" as he describes it. He is a pioneer of Australia's information technology field, and today is leading IMTG, an IT Consultancy and Software Company...

Former Greek Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos, along with his sister Irini Yeroulanou, co-director of the Benaki Museum, were invited to attend the launch of the "Gods, Myths & Mortals" exhibition, held at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne, on Wednesday, September 10. The...

One of the most historic theaters in Melbourne, which had been showing Greek films for decades, will shut down permanently in 2015. Astor theater was built in 1936 and during the 60s, 70s and 80s used to operate as a Greek...

A car crashed through the window of a Greek owned souvlaki shop in Hughsdale, Melbourne, on Monday just before 11am. Angelo Cosmas, the Greek-Australian owner was lucky to have survived as he was inside the shop when the car crashed into...

An exhibition entitled "A journey in time through art", organized by the Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) in the Embassy of Greece in Melbourne and Canberra, presented Greek tourism posters. The exhibition was held on the occasion of Greek Tourism Minister Olga...

The Australian Ministry of Migration and Border Protection released official statistical data which show that 33,951 Greeks migrated to Australia from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Most of the people who migrated to the country were either Australian...

Australia’s annual Greek cuisine festival in Melbourne will be filled with various events that will take place in the city’s most famous Greek restaurants. For the third consecutive year, “Flavours of Greece” festival will present to residents of Melbourne the unique flavors...