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"We're on the right side of history," Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said on Wednesday as her state became the first in Australia to legalize euthanasia. The state's historic voluntary assisted dying laws will allow terminally ill adults who have...

A large crowd gathered at Sydney international airport on Tuesday to greet Archbishop Makarios, the new Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church. The Assistant Bishops of the Archdiocese, the Clergy, the Monastics, the pious faithful, together with the state and...

Australia's PM Scott Morrison paid tribute to Archbishop Makarios, the new Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, who is due to arrive in Sydney on Monday. In a statement he said that the new Archbishop has contributed immensely to Greek...

Several Greek-Australians were included in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which was released earlier this week by Buckingham Palace. There were 993 total Australians who received recognition from the Queen in the general division and 221 people received meritorious...

A middle-aged Greek-born man was among the four victims of the shooting rampage in Darwin, Australia on Wednesday. Fifty-seven-year-old Michael Sisois was shot dead at the Buff Club in Stuart Park in the shooting spree. Alleged gunman Benjamin Glenn Hoffmann...

President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on Sunday received the Archbishop of Australia Makarios at the presidential mansion and congratulated him on his enthronement. The Greek president wished the newly-elected archbishop every success in his new role at...

The Financial Review magazine of Australia published recently its list for the wealthiest Australians for 2019, and it includes many prominent members of the Greek community of the nation. Tobias Pearce and Kayla Itsines with a net worth of $486...

Fiona Barboutis Martin, whose family is from tiny Castellorizo in the southeastern Aegean, was elected as Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party in the marginal federal Sydney seat of Reid in the May 18 elections. Barboutis Martin, a child...

Arthur Sinodinos, born in Newcastle, New South Wales to Greek immigrant parents, has now been named as Australia's next ambassador to the US. Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently offered Sinodinos the US ambassadorship, which is considered to be Australia's most important...

The "Greek Writers Festival" will make its debut in Melbourne from May 31 to June 8, 2019, with an impressive lineup of writers and events, with the aim of fostering a broader cultural, political and literary dialogue. The festival will...