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Opinion

  • Now is the time to lobby for modern Greek
    11 Mar 2010 Maria Vamvakinou MP (0)

    The release of the Federal Government’s National Curriculum proposal and the review of which priority languages to include in the National Curriculum presents a historic window of opportunity to lo

  • Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking at the National Press club in Canberra.
    Crashing through with Kevin?
    11 Mar 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    Back in 1969 when he was in opposition, Labor leader Gough Whitlam delivered a talk on reforming Australian federalism for the ABC’s Boyer Lecture series.

  • Tarpon Springs. Sponges.
    On The Spit
    10 Mar 2010 (0)

    Tarpon Springs
    or why the Turkish Cypriots should be worried

    Lets begin with a series of brain teasers?

    How many of you know where Tarpon Springs is?

  • Ancient Greece: Sex, to partake or not to partake?
    1 Mar 2010 Michael C. Scott (0)

    The Cycladic Museum in Athens is currently hosting a new exhibition on Eros in the ancient world.

  • Right Room, Wrong Elephant
    1 Mar 2010 Dr James Arvanitakis (0)

    In a parliamentary speech on global environmental issues delivered late last year, ALP MP Kelvin Thomson said it was time to discuss the environmental elephant in the room.

  • There is no reason to end life time tenure in the Greek civil service
    On the Spit
    23 Feb 2010 (1)

    The Greek economic miracle -

  • Stability plan has been approved
    22 Feb 2010 John Psaropoulos (0)

    Last week the European Union economy and finance ministers (Ecofin) council approved the Greek stability plan which entails a 4 percent cut in the budget deficit this year, to bring it to 8.7 perce

  • Povery Chic. Melbourne.
    On The Spit
    17 Feb 2010 (0)

    Police Commissioner's Poverty chic

    Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland's counsel to Indian students to ''look as poor as you can'' to evade being battered by thugs, should be

  • Cambridge Fellow, Michael C Scott
    Look at the dead!
    16 Feb 2010 Michael C. Scott (0)

    When visiting Athens today, most tourists, for obvious reasons, head straight for the Parthenon.

  • Altona message is clear: Brumby Government is on the slide
    15 Feb 2010 Dr Nick Economou (0)

     Governments don’t like by-elections. They tend to occur at most inconvenient times, and they nearly always result in an anti-government swing.

  • Greece Reaps the Fruits of Corruption
    15 Feb 2010 Alexander Billinis (4)

    Greece's financial and fiscal problems are front page news over my breakfast table daily here in London.

  • Athens: industrial action and coffee
    12 Feb 2010 Guy Rundle (0)

    "Greeks and the state...fehhh". In Florus cafe on Exarchia Square, Stavros hovers over a cappucino and neatly demolishes my cherished illusions of a new Greek revolution.

  • Are you born or do you become Greek?
    9 Feb 2010 Nicolas Mottas (0)

    Walking on Thessaloniki's Aristotelous square some leaflets draw my attention.

  • Time has come to change our flag!
    1 Feb 2010 Fotis Kapetopoulos (1)

    Last week I was invited to lunch with senior Indian journalists who were visiting Australia at the behest of the Australian Government, to assess the reality of the violence confronting some of the

  • Abbott: an asset of liability?
    1 Feb 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    In the dying days of the 2009 federal parliamentary year, the Liberal party took the plunge.

  • Ancient Greece: Democracy in Athens
    1 Feb 2010 Michael C Scott (0)

    Ancient Greece's most famous export to this day is arguably democracy.

  • A homage to Melbourne's North
    25 Jan 2010 (1)

    Just before Christmas I attended my cousin's name day party on the other side of town where I got into a conversation with one of his guests about Coburb, the suburb where I live.

  • Flexibility yes, but not for flexibility's sake
    18 Jan 2010 Costas Iordanidis (0)

    The first 100 days of the new PASOK administration have seen a great deal of activity, but also chaos.

  • 2010 – A big year for politics and elections
    18 Jan 2010 Nick Economou (0)

    2010 promises to be a very important year in Australian politics, not least because of the number of elections that are due to be held over the next twelve months.

  • Stereosonic festival 2009
    Dancing and partying are not only for the young
    6 Jan 2010 Jeana Vithoulkas (0)

    The last time Tony went to the Big Day Out two years ago, he was constantly approached by people wanting to buy drugs.

  • Obama, the Rule of Law and the State Department
    29 Dec 2009 Gene Rossides (0)

    In his inaugural speech, President Obama stressed that the rule of law would be fundamental in his administration. Referring to national security he said.

  • Kevin Rudd. PM.
    2009 in the national capital: A year of good and bad
    21 Dec 2009 Dr Nick Economou (0)

    With just days to go until the end of the pre-Christmas session of the Australian parliament, the then federal parliamentary leader Malcolm Turnbull, was desperately trying to hang on to his leader

  • Reflecting on our Christmas craving
    15 Dec 2009 Vicky Tsaconas (0)

    A few days ago, I started to have cravings.

  • Reviewing the Greek riots
    14 Dec 2009 Nicolas L. Mottas (0)

    "A singe spark can start a forest fire", Mao Zedong, 1930.

  • Turnbull could be back (after the next election)!
    7 Dec 2009 Dr. Nick Economou (0)

    As it is the silly season that tends to take hold at the end of the year (it took hold in Canberra last week, it would seem), let me make this bold prediction: recently defeated Liberal leader Malc

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