Melbourne

Greek-Australian aged care center “Fronditha” will invest 35 million Australian dollars in expanding its facilities, as announced by its president Sakis Zafeiropoulos at the Melbourne center's annual gala on May 10. More than 450 Greek-Australians attended the event, and raised some 140,000 Australian...

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,...

Lieutenant General and official of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, Georgios Petkos, will represent the Greek armed forces at the 73rd anniversary since the battle of Crete, which is set to take place next month in Australia. The celebration...

On the night of Easter, a record number of believers attended Greek-Orthodox Churches across Australia and mainly in Melbourne, the epicenter of the Greek Diaspora. With reverence and solemnity, Greek-Australians who attended mass at midnight on Holy Saturday, filled the...

Police in Victoria, Australia have put a bounty of one million Australian dollars on the murderers of each of two Greek-Australians, Dimitris Belias and Giorgos Germanos, who were killed more than a decade ago. Both were victims of a gang war that shook Melbourne...

Over 100 new job positions will be created in a Greek printing firm after a subsidy of 2.6 million dollars was granted by the federal government, the government of Victoria and Ford Australia, under a project called Melbourne’s North...

Shopkeepers of the Greek-Australian Diaspora are concerned because of the imminent smoking ban at the most “Greek” corner of Melbourne. Specifically, the pedestrian street situated at the Oakley suburb, where almost all the shops and cafes are Greek. Since smoking...

Nei Lima Da Costa, a 29 year-old Brazilian man, killed three people, two of which were Greek-Australians. Three more were injured when struck by Da Costa while he was driving under the influence of narcotics, in Oakley, Melbourne. The Brazilian driver was...

  With construction almost complete of the new building for Melbourne’s Greek Community Cultural Center, ever more Greek expat organizations, enterprises and individuals continue to offer their support to this ambitious project. A donation with a special meaning was made recently to the...

The Greeks of Melbourne will be commemorating and celebrating another year of remembrance for Greek Independence Day on March 25, that will be taking place with the standard grand march at the Australian War Memorial on Sunday, March 23. As...