Australia

Sydney police has charged two Greek nationals following an investigation into the discovery of 120kg of cocaine in a shipping container.

A Greek Australian doctor is set to inherit millions from a patient’s will after a lengthy legal battle with the deceased man’s ex-business partner, friends and The Salvation Army. According to The Daily Telegraph, this is the second time Dr....

Greece has become one of the top destinations for Australians this summer as bookings have soared according to the online travel research company, Webjet. The company revealed that bookings to Athens from Australia have skyrocketed by 369.5%, a significant increase...

On Tuesday, the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, visited Greece where he met with the Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis and the Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, following an invitation made by the latter. They reportedly discussed the strong bilateral...

Greek Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios helped police by using a phone app to remotely track his Tesla after it was stolen from his mother at gunpoint on Monday morning. Kygrios was inside his family’s Canberra home at about 8.30...

Greece and Australia are creating a Remembrance Trail on the Aegean island of Lemnos in honor of the Australian troops killed in the First World War. The Australian Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh has confirmed a pledge announced last...

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 "the contribution and suffering of all those...

The wreckage of a WWII Japanese ship transporting over 1,000 Allied prisoners of war was discovered in the South China Sea. A team of explorers announced that the Montevideo Maru was located after a 12-day search at a depth of...

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city for the first time since the 19th century, the latest government figures showed. Melbourne, the city that also boasts the largest Greek diaspora community in the world, now has a population...

Climate experts are warning of a possible El Niño phenomenon later this year. El Niño is a warming of the Pacific Ocean that can cause extreme weather events worldwide. Some models suggest a "super El Niño" with very high...

A hugely popular Greek Orthodox priest in Australia has been defrocked by the Ecumenical Patriarchate for a "series of ecclesiastical and canonical offenses." Father Eleftherios Tatsis, commonly known as Father Lefteris, announced his resignation from the Archdiocese of Australia (GOAA)...

Using an amateur metal detector, an Australian man discovered a large gold nugget in Victoria's goldfields. The nugget is nearly 250,000 AUD ($160,000) in value and weighs 4.6kg.The discovery was made in the "golden triangle" area between Bendigo, Ballarat,...

On Friday, Greek-Australian singer Vassy Karagiorgos, better known by her stage name VASSY, won the Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMA) in the "Icon" category. She is the first woman ever to have won the accolade. The award win comes shortly...

The US, UK and Australia have unveiled details of their plan to create a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, aimed at countering China's influence in the Indo-Pacific region. Under the AUKUS pact Australia is to get its first nuclear-powered subs...

The Greek-Australian Writers' Festival, presented by the Greek Festival of Sydney and UTS Journalism and Writing, will highlight the best of Greek-Australian literature. Directed by Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos, Professional Fellow UTS, this highly anticipated event will be held on Sunday...