Today, marks the commencement of the annual National Reconciliation Week (NRW), which aims to bring together 60.000+ yo Indigenous Australia, with 237 yo Non-Indigenous Australia .
Every year, the week starts on the same date. The date when Australia’s most successful referendum took place on 27 May in 1967. Back then, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to give the Australian Government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and recognise them in the Census.
That campaign, unlike the failed 2023 Voice referendum, changed Australia forever and for the better!
This most important date in the history of modern Australia though, once again, went unnoticed by the institutionally defined microcosms of the Greek-Australian community?
Like last year, the only organisation that remembered near the end of the first day of National Reconciliation Week 2025, to utter a few words about the event, was the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, via Archbishop Makarios.
All the other historical, secular and major Greek-Australian community organisations remained silent, today!
As if they live on a desert island…
As if they did not all support the Yes campaign in 2023, for the creation of an advisory to the Government and Parliament body, on behalf of Indigenous Australians, called Voice.
As if by omission, or ineptitude, they accept a religious leader to become their political leader as well…
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