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Hellenic Museum Joins Peers to Highlight Melbourne’s Diversity
The Hellenic Museum has teamed up with four other multicultural venues in Victoria to highlight Melbourne’s claim as one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities. The Chinese Museum, Co.As.It...
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Greek-Australians Still Honor 11-Year-Old Hero a Century Later
The patriotic spirit of 11-year-old Greek-Australian Hector Vasyli is still alive and being honored by many people even 100 years after his death. The newspaper boy was much loved in his time and his...
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Melbourne Seminar Delves into Greek History
The Greek community in Melbourne will be hosting an exciting lecture on Dr Anna Efstathiadou examining some of the propaganda prints produced by the Metaxas regime during the Greek-Italian War. Taking...
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Cypriot Australians to Commemorate Anniversary of Turkish Invasion
The Cypriot Community of Australia, along with the Justice for Cyprus Coordination Committee (SEKA), are to hold a number of events to commemorate 44 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus....
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Melbourne Lecture Examines Colonial Rule in Greek Islands
Corfu newspaper writes about enosis [union] with Greece in 1864The history of Greece’s Ionian islands under British rule came under the spotlight in a lecture given in Melbourne on Thursday. Dr....
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Hellenic Community of Melbourne Honors Evzones
The Evzones of Greece’s Presidential Guard were honored by the Hellenic Community of Melbourne at the Greek Centre as part of the March 25th festivities. The Board of Directors of the Community held a...
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Alexander the Hellene: Melbourne Seminar Examines Ancient Sources
A lecture about the Alexander the Great will be presented by Dimitris Gonis on Thursday 12 April 2018, at the Ithacan Philanthropic Society, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars,...
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Lecture Tells Tale of Australians Who Fought in Greece in WWII
Australian soldiers land on Suda Bay, Crete in May 1941. The Greek community of Melbourne is presenting a lecture by Professor Peter Monteath on Australians who fought in Greece during World War II, as...
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ANZAC Day is Equally Important to Greeks and Australians (video)
ANZAC Day commemorates the date the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli, Turkey on April 25, 1915, marking the first time the two armies fought together away from home, for the...
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Evzones in Sydney for ANZAC Day Ceremonies
(Greek Presidential Guard with Consul General of Greece in Sydney, Christos Karras) The Greek Presidential Guard is in Sydney to take part in the ANZACs Day events and participate in several...
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Hellenic Museum Joins Peers to Highlight Melbourne’s Diversity
The Hellenic Museum has teamed up with four other multicultural venues in Victoria to highlight Melbourne’s claim as one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities. The Chinese Museum, Co.As.It...
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Greek-Australians Still Honor 11-Year-Old Hero a Century Later
The patriotic spirit of 11-year-old Greek-Australian Hector Vasyli is still alive and being honored by many people even 100 years after his death. The newspaper boy was much loved in his time and his...
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Melbourne Seminar Delves into Greek History
The Greek community in Melbourne will be hosting an exciting lecture on Dr Anna Efstathiadou examining some of the propaganda prints produced by the Metaxas regime during the Greek-Italian War. Taking...
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Cypriot Australians to Commemorate Anniversary of Turkish Invasion
The Cypriot Community of Australia, along with the Justice for Cyprus Coordination Committee (SEKA), are to hold a number of events to commemorate 44 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus....
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Flashback to the Day the First Greeks Arrived in Australia
Coal miners in Hill End-Tambaroora of New South Wales, early 1870’s. Among them Jeremiah Williams (Jerasimos Vassilakis) in the center of the picture. Copyright: Holtermann collection of the State...
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Lemnos Gallipoli Committee Commemorates Armistice Day 1918
The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee participated in a service by the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL Sub-Branch on Sunday in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 1918. The...
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Thousands Greek Australians Celebrate Independence Day in Melbourne, Greek MP...
Thousands of Greek Australians attended the parade for Greece’s Independence Day in Melbourne on Sunday, while several attendants booed Greek Deputy House Speaker Giorgos Varemenos when he tried to...
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Australian PM Scott Morrison Sends Message to Greek Australians for March 25th
Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison sent a message to Greek Australians on the occasion of March 25th, Greece’s Independence Day. The complete message by the Australian PM: “I am pleased to...
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Greece Honors Sole Surviving Australian Veteran From Battle of Crete
Norman Maddock holding hands with his wife at the Greek Consulate ceremony The Greek Consulate in Melbourne honored the sole surviving ANZAC veteran from the Battle of Crete in a ceremony held on...
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Anzac Day: The Brave Australians and New Zealanders who Fought for Greece
ANZAC Day is a day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and...
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