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Greek Senator Donates Dinner Set to Parliament House
Greek-Australian senator Nick Xenophon continues to be in the political foreground, as the campaign for the elections of September 7 peaks. This time Xenophon and the Victorian Democratic Labor Senator...
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Greek Press in Australia Marks 100 Years
The Greek Press in Australia has completed a century of life. The first Greek newspaper that was released 100 years ago is still available under a different name and monthly circulation. The first...
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Key Witness Threatened in Supreme Court
According to the Age, Loukia Bariamis, the key witness in a multi-million dollar fraud case against Steve Iliopoulos, a man with links to the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang, has allegedly been...
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Greek Law Firm Sues Colosimo
Australian acknowledged actor Vince Colosimo, is facing bankruptcy proceedings after being sued by a Greek law firm in Melbourne. As the Age reports, the 46-year-old star has been dragged into the...
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Turkey Miffed Australia Recognizes Armenian Genocide
Turkey speaks of “forgery of history” and characterizes the testimonies of Australians who fought at Gallipoli as” lies.” Australians reacted strongly to these allegations. The parliament of New South...
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Melbourne’s Greeks Meet Immigration Minister
The Australian Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, has repeated that Australia is ready to sign the agreement on granting visas to young people from 18 to 30 years old for vacation and work. The Greek...
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Greek Chemist Leads National Campaign Protest
Kostas Sklavos, a Diaspora Greek, who heads the powerful lobby of Pharmacists of Australia, has launched a Pan-Australian campaign, aiming to reverse the federal government’s decision to reduce the...
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Australian Visa Cost Hits Record High
The cost of entry permits in Australia has hit record high. The cost of granting a visa has increased by 75% in the budget presented by the Greek government in May, and from September a further...
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Marjory McGinn In Love With Greece
“When I first set foot on Greece- FYI that was my very first trip outside Australia- I fell in love with it. I don’t know exactly what it was, but I just loved this country. Back then I was 20 years...
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Sinodinos Takes Opposition’s Finance Role
John Howard’s former economic adviser, Senator Arthur Sinodinos, has been promoted into the finance portfolio by opposition leader Tony Abbott, through the creation of a trade and investment...
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Ancient Greece Shown At Bendigo Gallery
The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece exhibition will be shown at Bendigo Art Gallery in Victoria, north of Melbourne. The exhibition concerns the collection of selection of key art works from the...
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Cassomenos 2nd In Pianist Contest
Another important distinction was once again given to the expat pianist, composer and conductor Stefan Cassomenos, who was runner-up in the 2013 Lev Vlassenko Pan-Australian Piano Competition, held in...
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Kosmidis Dances With Cirque du Soleil
The famous Cirque du Soleil has begun a world tour presenting a performance-tribute to Michael Jackson. In September and October, the event will be staged in Australia’s biggest cities after it...
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Greek-Australian Accused of Killing Companion’s Son
On August 28 Greek-Australian John Xypolitos, 57, of Hughesdale, was found guilty of murdering his companion’s son17-year-old Gary Adams. Xypolitos murdered the 17-year-old with a hammer, then...
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Immigration Minister Met Melbourne’s Greek Orthodox
Members of the Board of Directors of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne & Victoria met with the Federal Minister for Immigration Tony Burke on August 23 and discussed matters concerning the...
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Greek Crisis Exhibited in Australian University
A photograph exhibition on the Greek crisis by the distinguished photographer Efi Alexaki will be hosted at the Gallery of the Macquarie University in Australia until September 7. Alexaki visited...
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184 Years Since First Greek Arrivals in Australia
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...
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Oysters and Orotory at Christos’ Fishmonger
Some ingenious Greeks always have their way, such as fisherman-poet Christos Raskatos who is going to participate in the Festival of Performing Arts of Lorne, a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria,...
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Promises to Grant Melbourne’s Greek Cultural Center
The Greek Cultural Center in Melbourne, Australia, which is under construction, will be granted the amount of 455,000 dollars for the following three years by the federal government, if the coalition...
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Fundraiser for Bear Cottage at St Nicholas Church in Sydney
The hospice Bear Cottage at Manly provides refuge for very sick children and their families from across NSW and the ACT. A fundraiser to benefit Bear Cottage at Manly, the only children’s hospice in...
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