australia

Work or Study in Australia for Greek Citizens

Hellenic Australian provides a wide range of consulting services to Greek citizens who are interested in working or studying in Australia. Australia is currently experiencing a shortage of qualified labor force and is in need of skilled workers. The Daily...

More Greek Students Choose Australia

There has been an increase in the number of Greeks who choose Australia for university studies by approximately 500%. According to data from the Australian Department of Immigration, while only 102 young people from Greece got a student visa for...

The Richest Greeks of Australia

Seven Greek-Australians are among the 200 richest people in Australia, according to the list published by the financial magazine BRW. The richest Greek in Australia is Kostas Makris, the former owner of the Greek football club Panachaiki, with 900 million...

Small Alatsata in Brisbane

For more than 90 years in Brisbane, Australia, there has been a neighborhood, Small Alatsata, located in the West End and retains its Asia Minor character. The first refugees arrived there from the town of Alatsata, a purely Greek town...

Fronditha Elderly Care Gets $1.8M Gift

Some 1.815 million dollars was donated to Frontida Care in commemoration of doctor Constantine Kiriazopoulos, by his son Mike Krizos in his will. Fronditha Care - formerly called the Australian Greek Society for Care of the Elderly - is...

Greek Scientist Warns of Global Cereal Disease Risk

The planet will be threatened by global wheat and food shortage if the amount of money allocated for the creation of new, resistant seeds isn’t doubled, claims Dr. Darren Kriticos, a scientist of Greek descent, who works for Australia's...

Tsipras’ Forthcoming Trip to Australia

Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, is planning to visit Australia in the next months, as Kostas Isichos, executive of the party revealed. “My trip will not be the last. I hope that the President of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, will be...

Migrants Again Due to Financial Crisis

The daily Sydney Morning Herald published an article analyzing the immigration phenomenon of Greeks to Australia in the past. Many are the Greeks who, or their parents, migrated to Australia in the past seeking a better life and afterwards returned...

Halkitis’ Movember Mustache Cancer Cause

Greek Australian businessman Nick Halkitis is one of Australia's top money raisers for 'Movember' - a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for research and treatment for Beyond Blue and the...

Australia’s Black and White Milk Bar at 80

Joachim Tavlaridis' legendary milk bar in Australia turns 80 years old. Tavlaridis - who later adopted the name Mick Adams - migrated from Greece at the age of 14, shortly before the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922. He started...