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It is not every day that a fashion show features dresses worn in the Bronze Age, but the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne will soon see models take to the catwalk sporting clothes from ancient Greece. Australians will have a great opportunity...

Greeks from all over Australia gathered in front of the Greek Consulate in Melbourne on Sunday to demand that the Greek government does not negotiate away the name of Macedonia. The crowd holding Greek flags and chanting “Hellas-Hellas-Macedonia,” listened to...

Thousands of Greek Australians rallied against FYROM receiving a compound name containing the term 'Macedonia' on Sunday in Melbourne. The rally held outside the Greek Consulate was organized by the Pan-Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria and supported by many...

New Greek hot star Giannis Haroulis rocked Tumbalong Park on Sunday as part of the 36th Greek Festival of Sydney. Mixing traditional Cretan music with rock rhythms, Haroulis has made an intoxicating hybrid that excites both young and old, traditionalists...

A group of Greek evzones -- elite soldiers popularly known for the famous changing of the guard ceremony in Athens -- will travel to Australia for Greek independence day celebrations next month. In Melbourne, members of the presidential guard will...

An Australian man who stole more than AUD$200,000 ($156,000) worth of gold from a remote mine in Western Australia said he wanted to use his ill-gotten gains to fund a family holiday to Greece. Joseph Andrew Cresp, 52, was working...

Over a century of Greek-Australian history in New South Wales is coming to an end with the forced move of Katoomba's opulent Paragon Cafe, set up in 1916 by a Greek entrepreneur from Kythera. The current owners say high rents...

Greek-Australian groups are planning a rally on Macedonia for Sunday, Feb. 25, outside the Greek Consulate in Melbourne. The protest, organized by the Pan-Macedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria, will take place as negotiations between Greece and FYROM are intensifying...

Thousands of Greek Australians gathered at Melbourne’s Lonsdale Street over the weekend for a feast of song, dance, food and culture which has been described as the biggest Greek festival ever to have taken place in Australia. Bill Papastergiadis, president...

  Police in Melbourne are for searching for an elderly Greek man, missing since Sunday. Triantafilos Panagopoulos, 78, is described by Victoria police as being 175 centimeters tall and of medium build with grey hair and brown eyes. He was last seen...