Greek Australians

On Wednesday evening, the Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) welcomed 18 enthusiastic participants from their inaugural Youth Camp to The Greek Center for a final briefing. The camp, which will run from 23 September to 01 October, is an initiative of the GCM and the Prefecture of Attiki. It has been designed to offer a comprehensive exploration of Greek culture, history, and heritage.

Following its successful launch, the book has now arrived in Melbourne and is available for sale to the general public via our online bookstore or from the Greek Community of Melbourne Office.

Professor Gonda Van Steen from the King’s College London will illuminate a significant but often overlooked aspect of Greek history in her upcoming online lecture. Titled “Children of the ‘Silent Migration’: Child Adoptions from Greece to Countries Overseas in the 1950s-1960s,” the lecture will take place on Thursday 27 June at 7 pm and will be live streamed on Facebook and YouTube.

Tottenham Hotspur Ange Postecoglou visited Buckingham Palace this week but the Greek-Australian could leave King Charles disappointed on Saturday by relegating Burnley, a club the British monarch has a soft spot for.

I first met Andrew Liveris in 2012 in Florida, at the most significant annual meeting of prominent Greek Americans of the Leadership 100 organization, which had been founded by Archbishop Iakovos. It was during the peak of the Greek economic crisis and the forecast was grim.

Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Greek-Australian Ange Postecoglou as the head coach of the English Premier League powerhouse. 

It is offered as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne

Through their visual project "Greek Australians: In Their Own Image," Australian documentary photographer Effy Alexakis and her historian collaborator Leonard Janiszewski have shone a light on a kind of Greek-Australian history that few are familiar with, with more than 2,000 recorded oral history interviews as well as various types of documentation.

Images from a security camera show the murder of 46-year-old Greek-Australian Yiannis Makris outside his home in the southern Athens suburb of Voula last Wednesday. Makris was shot at least six times. The footage is expected to help police identify the shooter.

For a second time, Fronditha Care, an organization which provides services to elderly Greek Australians, has invited Greeks to work as caregivers at its facilities in Australia, in an innovative program negotiated with the government to cover the needs of first-generation Greeks who never learned English.