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Today, the Center for Modernism Studies of the University of New South Wales is organizing a symposium for the great Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos. According to the official announcement, important speakers of the university will analyze the continuities and ruptures...

The Australian-Greek Welfare Society organized an awareness campaign in Melbourne. The aim of the campaign was to inform the new immigrants about the visas and the immigration law in Australia. The seminar was for the Greeks whose number saw...

The Greek Expatriate MP of Labor Party John Pandazopoulos announced his intentions to leave politics earlier this morning. Mr. Pandazopoulos has served in the Parliament of Victoria for 22 years and he will not be running again in the November...

The Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI), for the year 2013, honoured the leading Greeks of Australia, in an event held in a hotel in Melbourne. The Lifetime Achievement Award "Spiros Stamoulis' was given to the university professor...

This week, the 2013 Australian University Awards for Teaching went to Sophie Karanicolas for her teaching excellence. She is a Senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide since 2004. She was also congratulated by the Senator Scott Ryan and...

More and more Australians want to adopt the Greek diet....... The new book of Maria Benardis, which focuses on the habits of Ancient Greeks, shows that Australians want to adopt a healthier lifestyle. According to the famous chef and author,...

The Ninth Greek-Australian Legal and Medical Conference will take place in September 2014 at Costa Navarino, in the historic Peloponnesian town of Pylos. In the conference hundreds of scientists, doctors and lawyers from Greece, Australia and other countries will...

The new president of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) Joseph Caputo, expressed his displeasure for the abolition of the Ministry of Multicultural Affairs of the Tony Abbott government. Mr. Caputo said "We will ask the government...

The Premier of New South Wales, Barry O’Farrell officially opened the International Colloquy: “Parthenon, an Icon of Global Citizenship” which started on Friday at the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. During his speech he stated that: “The...

The President of the International Organization for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles –David Hill- spoke of the UK’s implacability on the matter of the Parthenon Sculptures’ return to Greece, in his article for the Australian newspaper The Sydney...