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25.01.2022 #Europe #Greece #Bicentennial2021 #History #Nation #GreekRevolution1821 #GreekWarofIndependence #Identity #Lecture #BritishSchoolofAthens Interesting! Professor Roderick Beaton's (King's College London), virtual lecture in November 2020 on The Greek Revolution of 1821 in international context, 200 years on. Professor Beaton, a member of the "Greece 2021" committee on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), is also the author of the book "Greece. Biography of a Modern Nation", Penguin, 2019.
25.01.2022 #OTD #Anniversary #Labor #ALP #Election #Politics #History #Government #GoughWhitlam #Australia On this day in 1972, Gough Whitlam returned Labor to power after 23 years! 48 , Gough Whitlam .
25.01.2022 "What a year to come of age. To wander out of high school, or university, or Tafe, and into a world transformed by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. To be young in 2020 is to have watched on helplessly as the exciting new freedoms that come with a birthday, or graduation, were quickly but necessarily taken away: That first night out. The first road trip in the first car. For a generation of young Australians looking to their future, the wide vista of opportunities and possibilities they might have once counted on has dramatically narrowed with the arrival of recession in a nation blindsided by Covid-19."
24.01.2022 From the acclaimed dance theatre company Force Majeure comes a provoking work created in extraordinary times. Inspired by the music and themes of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, this world premiere production explores themes of ageing, environmental destruction, speculative paths to human survival, and asks: ‘How did we get here? What have we built? How can we continue?’ With original text by Tom Wright and music by Kelly Ryall, The Last Season brings together Australian stage icons Paul Capsis and Pamela Rabe, the powerhouse Irish actor Olwen Fouéré, and an ensemble of 13 young performers in a vibrant intergenerational conversation.
24.01.2022 State Department Obama, Joe Biden .
24.01.2022 #Sport #Tennis #StefanosTsitsipas #Photography FYI
23.01.2022 #SaveModernGreekAtLaTrobeUni A (Melbourne) cause worthy of our support.
23.01.2022 Reminder! Emmanuel Angelicas, SILENT AGREEMENTS-MARRICKVILLE-50-HOME, Head-On Festival ATLAS Community & Cultural Centre (96 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville), 14 - 29 2020. 11AM ON SUNDAY THE 15TH THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR 2 WEEKS.... VENUE: ATLAS COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTRE, 96 ILLAWARRA RD MARRICKVILLE
23.01.2022 Friday’s Front Page
23.01.2022 "Brother Claudio, 27, picks an olive branch at Greek Abbey of Saint Nilus, which hosts Italy’s last 10 Basilian monks of the Greek Orthodox rite, in Grottaferrata, Italy, south of Rome. The Basilian monks built the monastery in 1004, 50 years before the Great Schism of 1054 which led to the separation of Eastern and Western Christianity. At that time, the monks chose to remain faithful to the pope of Rome instead of following the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople. To this day, however, the Basilians follow the Greek Orthodox liturgy..."
21.01.2022 The Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO have teamed up for the latest biannual report on the climate, and the findings are clear: Australia is experiencing climate change now, and the warming trend is continuing.
19.01.2022 "Greece’s first openly gay minister said encountering homophobia in public life was a given, but hoped his appointment to the conservative government would make it easier for LGBT+ people to tackle discrimination. Nicholas Yatromanolakis was named deputy minister for contemporary culture after being promoted last week in a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis aimed at boosting his government’s image as COVID-19 pummels the economy."
18.01.2022 #PMLitAwards #Australia #Writing #Poetry #PO #HEIDE In case you didn't know. P.O. HEIDE.
18.01.2022 "The novel coronavirus pandemic has broken the upward trend in Greece's real estate market, but realtors expect a comeback once the virus recedes... After the debt crisis that started in late 2009, property prices in Greece nosedived 50 percent, according to the Bank of Greece. The real estate market started to recover in 2017 only, growing by 7.3 percent last year... The Greek housing market relies significantly on foreign investment, in particular since Greece launched in 2...013 its Golden Visa Program offering five-year residence permits in return for 250,000 euros worth investment in real estate... Last year, foreigners invested some 1.5 billion euros in the Greek real estate market. Until October this year, 7,903 Golden Visas had been issued, according to the Migration and Asylum Ministry..." (Xinhua)
17.01.2022 On a summer day in 1989, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan met up in Greece and brought their acoustic guitars to the place in Athens where the ancients believed the muses lived. Philopappos Hill, traditionally known as the Hill of the Muses, rises high above the Athens Basin and has a commanding view of the Acropolis. It was June 29...
17.01.2022 Frontex is under fire for letting Greece illegally repel migrants as the agency expands to play a more central role at the bloc’s external borders. The Greek government has denied it is doing anything illegal in repelling migrant boats from its national waters, characterizing the operations as robust border guarding.
16.01.2022 The Chinese Government has announced it will place tariffs on all Australian wine imports from tomorrow, striking a blow to the $1.2 billion-a-year industry.
14.01.2022 "Australia’s aged-care system is in sore need of transformation. This is becoming increasingly clear. If the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety whose interim report was titled Neglect was not enough to demonstrate the need for change, the tragic impact of COVID-19 on residential care has tipped it over the edge..."
14.01.2022 Between 1960-1967, the Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen lived in the artists’ colony on the Greek island of Hydra. His debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen was released in 1967, inspired by his time spent with the married writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, for whom he wrote So Long, Marianne.
11.01.2022 Open letter to the ABC On Friday the 16th of April you, the ABC, prominently published an article called Greek Orthodox Church took tens of millions in rent from aged care home at centre of deadliest COVID outbreak. The article attracted quite a readership as it was listed in the ‘Top Stories’ section of your site. It saddens me to see a story containing such inaccurate and inflammatory information about a minority cultural institution on the ABC. You should be aware that a...Continue reading
10.01.2022 The European Parliament adopted on Thursday an amendment to a resolution on the Cypriot coastal town of Varosha, calling on the European Council to impose sanctions on Turkey over the partial reopening of the town, which violates UN Security Council resolutions.
09.01.2022 "...The 25-year-old hasn’t played a lot of tennis in a year upended by COVID. Instead, he’s spent most of his time at home and, although Kyrgios has earnt more than $8 million in prize money over his career, home is still with his family, just a five-minute drive from the Tennis Centre...."
09.01.2022 On April 22, the College hosted the book launch of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia’s our College Dean’s book, Lord and Master of My Life, whic...h comprises an interpretation of the eponymous prayer by the fourth century saint Ephraim the Syrian. The event took place in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese’s cathedral of the Annunciation, Redfern, before moving to the College hall for a book signing and refreshments. The book was published last year by St Andrew’s Orthodox Press. The event was attended by His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Sebasteia, and Archepiscopal Vicars His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope (Adelaide) and Very Revd Fr Prochoros Anastasiades (Canberra and Tasmania). Consul-General of the Hellenic Republic Mr Christos Karras was also present, along with the translators of the book from Greek to English, Dr Anna Dimitriou and Ms Angeliki Georgiou. Also present were reverend clergy of our Archdiocese, principals of our day schools, faculty members of St Andrew’s College, as well as our college students in NSW and youth representatives from our parishes in Sydney (from GO Youth). Our Sub-dean Dr Philip Kariatlis MC’d the event, while the Press’ Chief Publishing Officer, Dr Mario Baghos, spoke about upcoming Press publications. Lord and Master of My Life was then launched by Bishop Silouan, who is also lecturer in Patristics at St Andrew’s and who wrote the forward to the book. In his beautiful reflection on the book, His Grace especially emphasised "From His Eminence’s book, it is evidently made clear that this prayer sums up all that is essential in spiritual life. In a few words the prayer acknowledges our human limitations, our need to love our neighbour but also our desire for a loving communion with God. In the words of His Eminence, 'the prayer of St Ephraim summarises, in a unique and wonderful way, whatever is spiritually needed for us to reach spiritual fulfillment and so it recommends a rule whereby we can assess our struggle during this period and for our entire time that we are in this world.'" After His Grace’s inspiring launch of the book, His Eminence gave an moving response, where he recalled the circumstances within which he wrote this book: ten years ago in Estonia during the harsh winter after his daily prayers. He thanked Dr Kariatlis, Dr Baghos, Mr Basilios Psilacos, Dn Fr Stephanos Tinikashvili, Dr Dimitriou and Ms Georgiou for their work on the book. His Eminence then focused first on the title, which is a prayer and a confession, as he explained that it is a prayer, on the one hand, and on the other, a confession that the Lord is master of our lives. And this is important, he pointed out, because if I do not accept that Christ is the Lord and Master of my life, then I will take his place. I will be the Lord and Master of my life, and this is spiritual destruction." Focusing on one of the last chapters, the Archbishop stressed that this was a prayer in which we asked God to give us the gift of seeing our own faults and not criticising our neighbour. We have a tendency to judge everyone and everything except to judge ourselves, he said, We do not like to judge ourselves. We like to stand in the mirror to see if we are beautiful, but we do not like to stand in the mirror and see reality and the truth. In addition, the Archbishop focused on the meaning of the second part of prayer, that is, the second gift we ask of God, which is not to criticise our neighbour and not to disturb their internal peace. Photos by Mark Petropoulos.
07.01.2022 ‘The Community Will Deliver A Clear Mandate’ for future of Macquarie University Greek Studies Foundation: George Mpliokas speaks to Kosmos
07.01.2022 Former Australian Labor PM Kevin Rudd on the relationship between Australia and China.
07.01.2022 #SaveModernGreekAtLaTrobeUni GREEK COMMUNITY OF MELBOURNE SEEKS URGENT INTERVENTION IN LATROBE UNIVERSITY’S THREAT TO GREEK STUDIES On 11 November the GCM became aware of the news regarding La Trobe University’s plans to wind up the Greek Studies program....Continue reading
06.01.2022 pallet of Dettol Greece cleaning products was shipped to -Municipality of Western Samos yesterday. With this contribution, the Embass...y wishes to assist the Municipality's continued efforts to provide shelter to the people left homeless by the devastating earthquake that hit the island in late October. We would like to express our appreciation to Samos Express for their generous assistance with the free shipping of donations, including our pallet, to Samos.
05.01.2022 "The Australian economy has bounced back from its first recession in almost 30 years, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says. Australia's GDP increased by 3.3 per cent in the September quarter, figures released on Wednesday showed. "The Australian economy is coming back," Mr Frydenberg told reporters."
04.01.2022 Greece puts faith in online schooling...
04.01.2022 An Orthodox spiritual center since 1054 as well as a recognized artistic site, Mt Athos holds an extraordinary collection of rare books, and artworks of immense historical value. Upon completion of the largest digital culture project in Greece, with the collaboration of over 200 distinguished scientists and experts, Athos Digital Heritage has made Mt Athos cultural treasures accessible to all, marking an important step of its monastic community to connect with contemporary society. Learn more, via: https://tinyurl.com/y58brqwn
03.01.2022 "48 women have died as a result of violence in Australia this year. Police have linked 33 of the deaths to family and domestic violence..."
03.01.2022 #Cyprus #Politics #Extremism #FarRight #ELAM #GoldenDawn #Elections "The neo-Nazi group might be in prison in Greece, but in Cyprus their local offshoot is getting ready for elections. How will they do?" iranda Christou is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at the University of Cyprus.
01.01.2022 Three months after the trial of Golden Dawn the largest court hearing of Nazis since Nuremberg the idea that two members of its hierarchy would still be enjoying the fruits of liberty, has elicited outrage and embarrassment.
01.01.2022 In Greek. You can download free of charge. A book with 100 essays about various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic.
01.01.2022 Sydney and Melbourne were the worst cities to be a landlord in 2020, according to the latest rental market figures. In fact, they were the only two cities where the rental price for houses fell throughout the past year, which was good news for renters.
01.01.2022 "By 1946, American newspaper headlines were full of the suffering of the Greek people with constant reminders of the sacrifices the Greeks had made supporting the Allies and encouragements to support the starving Greek people. Greek Americans, under the aegis of the Greek War Relief Association in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, launched the Animals for Greece campaign that allowed average Americans the opportunity to purchase donkeys, cows and horses and have them shipped directly to needy farmers in Greece..."
