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It was the tenth annual ball of the “Manassis” School of Dance & Culture, however this year marked 40 years since its foundation and it was brilliantly celebrated. Last Saturday, 21 September, the reception hall of the Nafpaktian Association in Heatherton was…

On Saturday AGAPI Care celebrated the ‘Joy of One Community’ at the AGAPI Care Gala. Special guests were: Ms Ged Kearney – Member for Cooper representing Honorary Jenny Mikakos Mr Lee Tarlamis – Senior Advisor to the Honorary Gavin Jennings – Member…

NUGAS Radio: Ta Leme Leadership, Direction, NUGAS Ball Earlier in the year we hosted our leaders at NUGAS – the National Union of Greek Australian students, in Anastasia Dolkas and Jacqueline Abraam to discuss our goals, direction and motivations for what to…

How difficult it is indeed to write, in a few paragraphs about the adventures of a lifetime! Especially a lifetime so rich and full, as was Tasos Galanis’. Tasos was born in Vloho of Karditsa in 1953. ­­ At age 14, he…

Once again the Greeks of Melbourne have given generously. Members of our community, young and old, contributed as much as they could to 3XY – Pronia Radiothon so that “Pronia” can continue its community services. The radiothon, conducted on Friday and Saturday…

Sturt Street’s open air gallery features dozens of famous faces, but it’s hoped the newest sculpture will become a place of international pilgrimage. On Sunday, Lis Johnson’s bronze, life-size figure of George Devine Treloar was unveiled – seated next to him is…

The recent provocations by members of the Skopjean community in Melbourne have rightly outraged the peaceful Greek community of Melbourne and constitute a vicious attack to our harmonious multicultural coexistence. Last week the Hellenic-Australian Memorial was vandalised with a poster depicting a…

“Καλώς ορίσατε ξανά στο πρόγραμμά μας!” As an introduction, Ta Leme is the official radio show of NUGAS – the National Union of Greek Australian Students – running every Tuesday from 8 to 9pm! Thanks to our friends and associates at 3XY…

When considering sports which encapsulate the interests of Greeks, and more specifically Greek-Australians- world football, tennis, water-polo and even Aussie rules come to mind. Very rarely one would consider Rugby. Recently, the MANASIS School of Greek Dance and Culture was invited to…

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement which originated in the late 1910s and early ‘20s which maintained that the superior qualities of the irrational, unconscious mind had to be liberated from the oppressive boundaries of reason and individualism that the Enlightenment…