Melbourne

The 19-year-old Greek-Australian Pavlos Tsapournis was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, but decided to do his military duty in Greece, to serve the homeland of his parents. The 19-year-old man is serving on the Greek  island of Samos, just across...

A group of Greeks from Tenedos, living in Melbourne will organise a journey to their homeland in order to celebrate the feast day of St. Paraskevi on July 26. Antonios Limnios, who is currently living in Melbourne, said that although he was forced to leave...

Representatives of the Australian armed forces, Australian veterans, many Australian politicians and many Greek-Australians attended an event held in St Kilda town Hall, organized by the Returned Services League (RSL) in collaboration with Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee. The organizers of the event aimed to raise...

Seven Greek expatriates are included on this year’s list of 200 richest Australians, which was published in the financial magazine BRW. Mining heiress Gina Rinehart topped the rich chart with a fortune of more than 20 billion dollars. #1. The...

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...

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,...

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...

 Vancouver’s White Lung unleashed their infectious punk tunes live in Australia this week. The band includes Mish Way on vocals, Kenneth William on guitar, Hether Fortune on bass, and Anne-Marie Vassiliou, of Greek heritage, on drums. This is White Lung's first trip to Australia and they have already...

A new book titled “Antigone Kefala: A Writer’s Journey” was launched in Melbourne on May 27 by the Australian poet Judith Rodriguez. The book is an anthology of reviews, essays, analytical and critical writing of Antigone Kefala’s literary works as...

One of the most significant voices of Greece, Maria Farantouri, and renowned US jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd continue their fourteen-year music collaboration, this time in Australia.