Hugh Gilchrist

One hundred and seventeen years ago, 57 Greeks who were living in Melbourne decided to create the Greek Community of Melbourne, without knowing that it would later become one of the largest and most historical Greek Diaspora organizations in...

August 28 was the 184th anniversary of the first arrival of Greeks in Australia, who were convicts of piracy according to the late historian Hugh Gilchrist. The occasion gives us the opportunity to make a reference to the story...

On August 28, 184 years were completed since the day the first Greeks demonstrably set foot on Australia. Those first Greeks were seven sailors from the Greek island of Hydra, who were accused and convicted of piracy against a ...