University of Sydney

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has named Greek-Australian academic and cinema scholar Vrasidas Karalis as one of its 41 new fellows.

Australian police said Monday they are investigating why a 40-year-old man with mental illness appeared to target women as he roamed a Sydney shopping mall with a large knife, killing six people and injuring a dozen more.

"Democracy is always unfinished business. It is not a recipe for Paradise on Earth," John Keane, the renowned professor of political science at the University of Sydney, tells Kathimerini.

Theologian and religious historian Vasilis Adrahtas will be delivering a lecture from the University of Sydney on "Myths and Dreamings: Cross Hatchings between Ancient Greece and Indigenous Australia," exploring the similarities in the underlying hierophanics between the two cultures.

An experimental drug developed by an Australian researcher could help prevent deaths from COVID-19 by controlling the formation of blood clots responsible for breathing difficulties, organ failure, stroke and heart attack.

Australia's wildfires have led to the closure of a number of embassies in the Canberra capital, where local authorities have threatened to smoke in the area over the weekend due to hot and windy weather, the Financial Times reports.

The head of the Estonian Diplomatic Mission in Australia, Kersti Eesmaa, confirmed that the Estonian Embassy has moved to Sydney.

At least one billion animals have been killed in the fires in Australia since September last year till today, according to a local environmentalist, DPA reported.

More than 500,000 animals have been killed in wildfires in Australia, NOVA reports.

The accounts are from environmentalists at the University of Sydney, published by Evening Standard.

Nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in rapid decline and a third could disappear altogether, according to a study warning of dire consequences for crop pollination and natural food chains, reports AFP. 

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney.