George Vardas

On 7 February 2024 the NSW Legislative Council considered a motion on genocide prevention. Introduced by Liberal Party opposition Whip, the Hon Chris Rath, the motion called for the Upper House to acknowledge that 9 December 2023 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and to honour the primary initiator of the convention, Dr Raphael Lemkin, who had been influenced by his studies of the Armenian Genoci…

On 2 February 2024, in the lead-up to the International Day of Greek Language (which is annually celebrated on February 9), Macquarie University in Sydney hosted the official award ceremony for students receiving their 2023 Certificates of Attainment in the Greek Language. The official guests at the Award Ceremony for the Certificates of Attainment in the Greek Language (image credit: Effy Alexakis) The impressive turnout at the Arts Precinct Function Centre saw more than 200 people, incl…

In the Cycladic islands of Greece there is a breed of kestrels (or falcons), known as kadinelia, that mate whilst twirling in the air in an expression of absolute freedom and harmony with nature. It is also the name adopted by the dynamic young Greek musical duet of Evi Seitanidou and Thanasis Zikas whose synergy,…

Campaigners for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures removed from the Acropolis in Athens in the early nineteenth century at the behest of the nefarious

Reports are emerging from London about secret negotiations between George Osborne, the Chair of Trustees of the British Museum, and the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and other senior ministers over the fate of the Elgin collection of Parthenon sculptures currently held on display in the museum’s controversial Duveen Gallery. Ta Nea headline: “The Four Secret Meetings for the Marbles” According to the highly reputable and well-placed London correspondent for the Greek newspa…

Reports are emerging from London about secret negotiations between George Osborne, the Chair of Trustees of the British Museum, and the Greek Prime Minister,

As the noted theologian and writer Patrick Comerford reminds us, the word Holocaust is derived from the Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holokaustos), which

The Greek Film Festival 2022 opened in Sydney on 13 October 2022 with the acclaimed film Eftihia, a biographical drama about the life and times of the Greek lyricist and songwriter, Ευτυχία Παπαγιαννοπούλου (Eftihia Papagiannopoulou). The festival, staged by the Greek Orthodox Community of NSW, was officially opened by the newly-arrived Greek Consul-General to Sydney, Ioannis Mallikourtis, in front of a packed house at the Palace Norton Street cinema complex in Leichhardt. Mr Mallikourt…

The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport has just negotiated an agreement in principle with Leonard Stern, one of America’s richest men and a voracious art

The legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan crafted a song in the 1960s which became etched in folklore as the essence of protest and change, for ’the