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CALL ME........
In his Honour, Justice Emilios Kyrou's recently published autobiography: "Call me Emilios," his Honour describes how ongoing racism at school caused him to try to conceal his ethnic identity by means...
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THE RETREAT HOTEL, REBETIKA AND THE PERPETUAL FOREIGNER
In “From Foreigner to Citizen: Greek Migrants and Social Change in White Australia 1897-2000” one of the most important critiques of Australian multiculturalism I have ever read, LaTrobe University...
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Limba armãneascã.
“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”Audrey Beardsley To no small degree, I owe my existence to my late grandmother’s knowledge of the Vlach tongue and in particular, its southern,...
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STANDING SOMEWHERE WITH GREECE
From Melbourne to Greece, for justice, for peace," came the faint, puerile, unenthusiastic cry of the small gathering. "Let Greece breathe,""Ellas, Ellas, Eleutheria," and even, bizarrely enough,...
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GO BACK AND SEE YOUR VILLAGE
Growing up, members of my extended family would laugh when sports commentators would wax lyrical about recent migrant's sporting achievements as "Australian.""They are 'Australian,' until they do...
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SUFFERING FOR CYPRUS
This photograph of a sorrowful young refugee holding his missing parents’ wedding photograph has haunted me ever since I first saw it, at the age of five. When in my youthful imagination I could barely...
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THE GREEKLISH PROJECT
Χάλο ντάλι μου! It was with these words that the luminous and beatific Kyriakos Gold of SBS Radio Greek program greeted the participants of the Greeklish Project, last Saturday night. Said Greeklish...
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THE GREEK CRISIS 173 YEARS BEFORE
It is a commonplace that the 1821 revolution secured Greece’s independence. What is generally not known however, is that the independent state of Greece, was set up for financial failure from its very...
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CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
Crisis? What crisis? This is the caption posted by a facebook ‘friend,’ below a photograph of a stereotypical Aegean beach. All the accoutrements of a ‘perfect’ holiday are present: the impossibly blue...
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INVASION
“The situation is dire. Waves and waves of illegal immigrants are flooding our shores. We are dealing with an invasion. We are not safe anymore." This is the manner in which a cousin from Samos...
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NA ME ΠΡΟΣΕΧΕΙΣ
Recently, I was remarking flippantly and in jest to a friend in a coffee shop that I should like to have two daughters, so that if one cannot look after me in my old age the other would. In so doing, I...
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SIRENS OF MOONEE VALLEY
I cannot miss the edifice in the photograph accompanying this article. It lies squarely within the path of my egress and regress to my home and I pass it frequently every day. In winter especially,...
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CATASTROPHE
On that day, ninety-three years ago this month, frightened, hungry and brutalized refugees massed on the quayside, frantically trying to save themselves from rape or murder by the crazed soldiers and...
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SYRIA AND THE GREEK REVOLUTION
Currently, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria have or are travelling to Greece, in order to seek refuge from the brutal war that has blighted their homeland, a war that has...
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ICARUS OF MELBOURNE
"And, burned because I beauty loved/ I shall not know the highest bliss,/ And give my name to the abyss/ Which waits to claim me as its own." Charles Baudelaire"Do you remember that statue of Icarus...
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VOTE GREEK
According to Newton's Third Law, for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Transposing this into Australian Greek community physics, for every σύλλογο, there is a vociferously opposing...
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NA ME ΛΕΤΕ ΑΙΜΙΛΙΟ
«Μαμά, μπαμπά, σας ευχαριστώ για όλα που κάνατε για μένα.» This sequence of words is the only one that did not require rendering into English, in Georgina Dimopoulos' recently released Greek...
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THE SABOTAGE DIARIES
“Memory is that diary which we all carry with us.” Oscar Wilde.A recent article on Katherine Barnes recently published novel ‘The Sabotage Diaries,’ in the Canberra Times bears the title: “The Sabotage...
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STAN THE MAN
Though I am largely indifferent to sporting pursuits in general, I despise kickboxing and ascribe blame for my aversion to it, to the great Stan (the Man) Longinidis, at least indirectly. For it was...
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MOIPOΛΟΙ FOR THE FALLEN OF 1940
"Death commands respect," Ismail Kadare, “The General of the Dead Army.’When the sun rose that day, it could not be seen. All was hidden in the stultifying greyness that try as it might, could not hide...
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