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One Last Chance for a United Greek Left
Alexis Tsipras returns to Greek politics with ELAS, calling for a united progressive front against inequality, scandal and growing public distrust in Mitsotakis’ government.
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The Long Shadow of Free Education
From Whitlam’s free tuition to Dawkins’ HECS and Albanese’s 2025 debt relief, Australia’s long struggle over higher education still defines politics, opportunity, and fairness.
Vault of the Continent
Inside Australia’s new biodiversity vault, life is preserved in drawers and freezers, a memorial and a wager against extinction.
Lessons Against Forgetting
Across Australia, children step into classrooms where Greek is still spoken, still taught, still fought for.
The Choreography of Scandal
Resignations and reshuffles played like ritual theatre, while a labyrinth of fraud turned seas into pastures and Olympus into plantations.
Why the World Keeps Returning to Beijing
As world leaders increasingly return to Beijing, China’s growing influence across trade, technology and diplomacy is reshaping the balance of global power and leadership.
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When Moral Authority Turns Political
Maria Karystianou’s abortion remarks expose how grief becomes political power — and why Greece is confronting a deeper crisis over rights, democracy, and moral authority.
CULTURE
The Vanishing of Adelaide Writers’ Week
When Randa Abdel-Fattah was removed from a major writers’ festival programme, a wave of withdrawals revealed how fear and politics now govern cultural institutions.
EDITORIAL
When a Nobel Peace Winner Appraises War
María Corina Machado’s congratulation of Donald Trump’s military intervention in her own country, Venezuela, exposes a fault line between moral authority and force, testing the limits the Nobel Peace Prize was meant to enforce.
EDITORIAL
The Man Who Held the Morning
For more than three decades, Giorgos Papadakis occupied the same hour on Greek television without converting familiarity into power, practising a form of journalism built on restraint rather than spectacle.
EDITORIAL
Donald Trump and the Crime of Aggression
Donald Trump authorised illegal force in Venezuela; Kyriakos Mitsotakis endorsed the outcome after Nicolás Maduro’s removal, revealing how power erodes law and allies accommodate aggression.
AUSTRALIA
Nick Bolkus and the Architecture of Belonging
A portrait of the senator who understood citizenship as a structure to be built through law and administration, shaping Australia’s approach to immigration, multiculturalism, and belonging.
EDITORIAL
When Scandal No Longer Shocks
As Greece closes 2025, corruption scandals, parliamentary insulation, and social exhaustion have converged into a deeper crisis—one defined less by breakdown than by the normalisation of consequence-free power.
AUSTRALIA
The Violence of the Ordinary
A mass shooting at a public Jewish community gathering in Australia forced a reckoning with how violence enters ordinary places—and what responsibility follows for an open society.
After Khamenei, a more dangerous Middle East
The killing of Iran’s supreme leader has reshaped regional power dynamics, raising urgent questions about legality, escalation and the risk of a wider Middle East war.
Opinion
The Quiet Migration
Across continents, retirees are quietly redrawing geography. From Greece to Costa Rica, the Global Retirement Report 2025 reveals how ageing has become a new form of migration.
GOOD LIFE
Greek Cinema Without Borders
From Melbourne to Los Angeles, Greek film festivals have carried the nation’s cinema across oceans, turning diaspora passion into a global odyssey of culture, memory, and belonging.
The Quiet Migration
Across continents, retirees are quietly redrawing geography. From Greece to Costa Rica, the Global Retirement Report 2025 reveals how ageing has become a new form of migration.
The Sentence Without End
László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel crowns a lifetime of relentless prose, sentences without end, charting mud, ruin, and fleeting transcendence in a world perpetually on the brink.
The Long Shadow of Free Education
From Whitlam’s free tuition to Dawkins’ HECS and Albanese’s 2025 debt relief, Australia’s long struggle over higher education still defines politics, opportunity, and fairness.
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The Quiet Fight to Save a Language
Behind Northcote High’s decision to keep Greek lies a quiet struggle—months of coordinated advocacy to protect a language increasingly vulnerable within Australia’s public education system.
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Who Is Accountable for Greece’s Spyware Scandal?
A Greek court convicted Predator spyware operators, yet no government officials were charged, exposing unresolved questions about oversight, surveillance power, and political responsibility.
Greeks Abroad
Nick Bolkus and the Architecture of Belonging
A portrait of the senator who understood citizenship as a structure to be built through law and administration, shaping Australia’s approach to immigration, multiculturalism, and belonging.
The Quiet Fight to Save a Language
Behind Northcote High’s decision to keep Greek lies a quiet struggle—months of coordinated advocacy to protect a language increasingly vulnerable within Australia’s public education system.
The House We Inherit
In Melbourne, Giorgis Tsouris’s "170 Square Meters (Moonwalk)" unfolds as a darkly comic family reckoning — where space, memory, and love collide inside four restless walls.
The Polite Cruelty of Silence
In his article CLUB ΦΤΥΑΡΙ, lawyer and poet Dean Kalimniou exposes how gossip, fear, and silence corrode dialogue and community within Melbourne’s Greek diaspora.
Greece
Europe Moves Forward, Greece Turns Against Its Workers
As Europe moves toward shorter weeks and modern labour standards, Greece has taken the opposite path, legalising a thirteen-hour day — a decision that exposes deep structural weaknesses behind the rhetoric of modernisation.
The Arithmetic of Survival
In post-crisis Greece, the numbers have recovered—but people have not. Behind the talk of growth, citizens still count coins, prescriptions, and the price of staying alive.
Europe Paid to Save It, Athens Paid to Close It
Millions of European Union funds aimed to preserve Greece’s postal network. Athens used them to close it — proof that modernisation can mean disappearance.
Where Democracy Meets the Shield
A new law transforms Athens’s most symbolic square into a guarded zone. As police lines replace citizens, Greece confronts the fragile distance between reverence and repression.
The Fragile Future of Greek Studies Abroad
At Sydney University, Greece pledged €10,000 to Modern Greek Studies — a modest sum that illuminated the wider funding crisis threatening Greek language programs across the globe.
World
Naming What Exists: Australia and Its Allies Recognise Palestine
In New York, Canberra joined Britain, Canada, Portugal and France to acknowledge Palestinian statehood—an act of principle that defies Washington, strengthens moderates, and keeps the two-state horizon alive.
In Beijing, Eighty Years After Japan’s Surrender
At Tiananmen, a parade marked eighty years since Japan’s surrender—Xi Jinping at the fore, flanked by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, as remembrance intertwined with ceremony and unity.
Lines in the Sand: Australia’s Stand Against Israel’s West Bank Settlements
It was only a signature, a few strokes of ink on a joint statement,...
A Deal by Any Other Name: Trump, Zelensky, and Europe’s Stage
The White House staged diplomacy in two acts. First came the Oval Office, where...