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Greek-Australian Owns Largest Pear Production Company in Australia
Kalafatis Cold Stores, located in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, is the largest pear production and supply company in the Australian market. The pears of the Greek-Australian family company are featured on the shelves of Woolworths' supermarket chain...
Australia
Cypriots of Australia Conference on Cyprus Issue
The annual conference of the Federation of Cyprus Communities of Australia and New Zealand, the Pan-Australian Justice for Cyprus Coordinating Committee (PASEKA) and the Cypriot Youth (NEPOMAK) was held between February 14 and 16, in Melbourne.
This year’s conference was...
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Top Greek-Australian Lawyer, Adviser to the UN
Magda Karagiannakis is a Greek-Australian University Lecturer at the La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is an adviser to the United Nations on legal matters and an interrogator for substantial international cases, occasionally handling major cases such as crimes...
Australia
Greek Australian Prodigy Surfer Wins Hawaii Event
A 16-year-old young man from Australia was recently crowned junior world champion in surfing, taming waves up to ten meters in the championship that was held in Hawaii. One hundred and thirty teens from all around the world participated...
Australia
Greek Australian Lydia Ierodiaconou Wins Bronze Medal in Sochi
The 32-year-old Greek-Australian freestyle aerial skier, Lydia Ierodiaconou, won the bronze medal in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Alla Tsuper from Belarus won the golden medal and the Chinese Xu Mengtao, the silver.
"I'm proud of my achievement," said Lydia...
Australia
‘Neos Kosmos’ Announces Newspaper of the Year
The Greek community newspaper, Neos Kosmos, was awarded best Greek newspaper of the year in New South Wales, Australia's largest state.
Neos Kosmos Weekend Edition won the "Best Print Publication of the Year - Periodicals" prize thanks to its content...
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Australian Prime Minister Attends Greek Festival in Sydney
The Greek community in Australia is organizing the Greek Festival of Sydney with top cultural events including thematic events on Socrates, El Greco, General Makrygiannis, Cavafy and many more others.
Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott accepted the organizers invitation...
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A Greek Among the Top Young Female Entrepreneurs of Australia
Dimitra Markogiannaki, a Greek young woman who moved to Australia just five years ago, was included in a magazine’s list of the fifty most successful female entrepreneurs of the country under the age of fifty.
Mrs. Markogiannaki is 29 years...
Australia
Australian Politicians Welcomed Melbourne’s Greek Festival
It is estimated that over 120,000 people attended the two-day outdoor feast of Antipodes festival in the center of Melbourne, in the presence of the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and the entire political leadership of Australia and the...
Australia
Greek-Australian to Build Artificial Island Near Darwin
The Greek owned company Halikos Group, considered one of Northern Territory’s leading construction companies, aims to build an artificial island near the port of Darwin in northern Australia.
The company led by John Halikos has been a huge supporter of...