A $90,000 commitment from Greek-Australian benefactors Peter and Mary Mitrakas has provided a crucial lifeline for Advanced Greek studies at La Trobe University, helping secure the future of a program that had faced the prospect of disappearing.
The funding, secured...
Greek filmmaker Konstantinos Mousoulis’ comedy Best Friends Forever (Φίλοι για Πάντα in Greek) is continuing its international journey, with the film selected to open the 31st Greek Film Festival in Australia following its Audience Award win at the Los...
A grieving dolphin mother has been seen carrying her dead calf for several days, according to drone footage recorded in Western Australia.
The dolphin, named Fraggle, balanced her calf on her snout in the Leschenault Estuary near Bunbury while other...
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is urging Greek Orthodox Australians to clearly identify both their Greek ancestry and religious affiliation in the 2026 Census, scheduled for August 11. The appeal formed part of the decisions adopted during an...
A New Zealand MP has dismissed English as a borrowed tongue, calling it a "bastardization of Greek, Old Norse, Latin" during a heated parliamentary debate over the language's legal status.
Green MP Tamatha Paul, who represents Wellington Central, made...
Greek-Australian singer and songwriter John Tikis has died at the age of eighty, bringing to a close a musical career that spanned more than five decades and earned him a devoted following in Greece and among Greek communities abroad.
His...
A campaign is gathering momentum in Australia to save an Ancient Greek language program considered among the oldest and most significant in the country. Plans for discontinuation of the program at Melbourne's Xavier College were announced following a years-long...
Australian classicist Professor Marguerite Johnson, whose career was devoted to studying Ancient Greek literature and culture, had spent much of her life exploring Greece’s past before making the country her home. That new chapter ended tragically when Johnson and...
Supporters attending a football match involving one of Australia's most prominent Greek community clubs displayed an anti-Greek banner alongside flags bearing the Vergina Sun, prompting an investigation by Football Victoria and condemnation from both league officials and the rival...
A court in Greece has ordered the conditional release of James Dalamangas, the fugitive wanted by authorities in Australia over the alleged 1999 fatal stabbing of George Giannopoulos in Sydney.
Dalamangas was released from Agios Stefanos Prison after his defense...
A meteorite slammed into Earth about 3 billion years ago, creating what researchers now say is the planet's oldest known impact crater, according to a new study.
The crater, known as the North Pole Dome impact structure, is located in...
Greece's court has rejected Australia’s extradition request for James Dalamangas, whom authorities in New South Wales sought over the 1999 stabbing of George Giannopoulos in Sydney.
The court ruled that Dalamangas did not qualify for extradition because the alleged offense...
Against all odds, 28-year-old Greek tourist Ioannis (Yiannis) Vidiniotis is walking again following a catastrophic spinal injury sustained at Perth’s Cottesloe Beach in Australia on New Year’s Eve. After striking a sandbank during a family vacation, Vidiniotis was given...
Greek authorities have arrested a 55-year-old Greek-Australian fugitive wanted for a 1999 murder in Sydney, ending a 27-year international manhunt. James Dalamangas, the target of a longstanding Interpol Red Notice, was apprehended in the Peloponnesian town of Aigio, near...
A major police investigation in Brisbane has led to 148 charges of rape and sexual assault being laid against a 74-year-old retired Greek-Australian doctor who had worked as a general practitioner (GP). At least fifteen former patients have already...
