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MP Luke Simpkins Urges Australia to Recognize FYROM as Macedonia (Video)

Liberal Party Federal Member for Cowan, Luke Simpkins MP during his speech in the Australian Parliament in Canberra on 17 March 2015 urged his colleagues in Government, for Australia to recognize FYROM as the Republic of Macedonia which is...

Greek Outrage Over FYROM’s “Macedonian Film Festival”

Outrage is building in the Greek community in anticipation of the 3rd Melbourne "Macedonian Film Festival".  The Festival is run by former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) organizers in Australia. The Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC) has issued a formal...

Northern Territory government supports SAE activities

Northern Territory Chief Minister, Paul Henderson, expressed the full support of the government towards the decision of SAE Region Oceania to organize the 2011 Panhellenic Cultural and Sports Games in Darwin. Mr. Henderson had a meeting in Darwin with SAE...

Maria Sakkari Defends Greek Fans Tossed Out of Australian Open

Greek tennis champion Maria Sakkari on Wednesday threw her support behind Greek fans who were evicted from her match at the Australian Open for being too rowdy. Victoria Police confirmed that a group of between 15 and 20 men were...

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos Not Visiting Australia in 2018

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will not be visiting Australia in the autumn as initially announced, according to Greece's Embassy in Canberra. The Greek Embassy announced that the president's busy schedule would not allow him to visit the country in 2018, as...

President Pavlopoulos Not Welcome by Greek Australians

The Pan Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria (PMAMV) will send a co-signed letter of complaint to President of the Hellenic  Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos saying he is not welcome in Australia. According to a Proto Thema website report, Greek communities...

Australian Hellenic Council Slams Pro-FYROM ‘Radicals’

The Australian Hellenic Council (AHC) has lashed out at recent scenes of flag burning by "radical ultra-nationalists" at protests over the name dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Organizers of the pro-FYROM rallies in Sydney and Melbourne could...

Australians, Thessaloniki and World War I

Australians often ignore how the operation in Thessaloniki influenced the Allied strategy during World War I, as well as Greece’s stance during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. Dr. Maria Hill, a distinguished historian, is a great supporter of this idea, therefore...

Strengthening Ties, Greek Officials to Visit Melbourne

The Minister of Macedonia and Thrace, Giorgos Orfanos and the Mayor of the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Giannis Boutaris are planning a visit to Australia this month. Orfanos is planning on traveling to Melbourne, Australia on November 19, accompanied...

Englezos Seeks Missing WWII Aussies In Greece

Lambis Englezos, a Greek-born Australian art teacher and amateur historian from Melbourne, has launched a campaign to find the graves of missing Australian soldiers in Greece from the Second World War. Englezos became known to Australia after the discovery of...

Australian Hellenic Council Conference in Canberra

Representatives of the Greek Australian community from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, ACT, Queensland and Western Australia attended the annual Australian Hellenic Council (AHC) Conference held on Sept. 15-16 in Canberra. The AHC is the body representing the...

Greek Mythology Inspires Australian’s Epic Greek Novel

Paul M. Hansen from Canberra launched his debut novel, Macedon – Child of a God, some months ago drawing inspiration from the ancient Greek mythology and history. The epic fiction novel won the Inaugural Australian Self-Publishing Group’s Unpublished Manuscript...

MCCV Skopjan Site of Victoria Asked to Correct Coat of Arms Use

A complaint made by the Australian Hellenic Council (NSW) to the Victorian Government regarding the use of the coat of arms of the state of Victoria on the website of the Macedonian Community Council of Victoria'(MCCV) has resulted in...

Greek Community Associations Raise Funds To Help Kalymnos Island

The Greek Orthodox Community of Northern Australian Inc (GOCNA), the Kalymnian Brotherhood, the Cyprus Community of NT and the Hellenic Macedonian Association have organized a fundraiser aimed at financially supporting the ‘Meals on Wheels’ program on the island of...

Australian Foreign Policies on FYROM Name Dispute and Cyprus Problem Remain Unaltered

“Australia’s policies on the name issue of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia remain unaltered. Australia recognizes the county by this name and our political line will not change as long as Greece and FYROM do not adopt a...