General History

From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian community within a formal assoc...

From, Hugh Gilchrist's Australians and Greeks. Volume II. The Middle Years Chapter XIV Guides for the Greeks pages 253-257. Between 1915 and 1939 three Greek books were published in Australia. All had a similar purpose:...

Prime Minister, J. B. (Ben) Chifley, was born and raised in Bathurst, New South Wales. The Federal electorate which he represented included the town of Katoomba, NSW., which is reasonably close to the town of Bathurst....

I Zoi en Afstralia, the book; on display at the Inverell Transport Museum, Inverell, NSW, April, 2004. Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW (MGF) staged the -Milkshakes, Sundaes and Cafe Culture exhibition in various...

Chapter Five, Kalgoorlie between the Wars: a mine of racism? of, A. Markus's, Australian Race Relations 1788-1993, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 1994, p. 150, is available at: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~griff52/Greg...

Chapter Five, Kalgoorlie between the Wars: a mine of racism? of, A. Markus's, Australian Race Relations 1788-1993, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 1994, p. 150, is available at: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~griff52/Greg...

ΤΖΩΡΤΖΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ There is a powerful tradition amongst various Tzortzopouli soi that their original progenitor was British - either English or Scottish. In Australia (with both the Hlihlis and Kapatanios soi, and England, (...

Post War Australia - Selling Coffee drinking - Review. From: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~loge27/p_war_aus/M_Market/pwar_aus_mm_coffee.htm Mark Pendergrast Uncommon grounds The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Ou...

From: http://thecouriermail.com.au/extras/oq/book11timeline5.html The Courier Mails' Time Line. 1904 - Freeleagus Bros buy their first fish shop in George St, Brisbane; to become largest Greek café and food chain involvi...

A long (117 page), interesting document at: http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/docs/thematichistory_centralwest.pdf composed by Terry Kass for the NSW Heritage Office. Chapters 4 & 5 are of particular interest: Chapter 4: NS...

NSW Legislative Council Hansard, 30/10/2002 THE GREEKS IN QUEENSLAND A HISTORY FROM 1859 TO 1945 The Hon. JAMES SAMIOS [10.30 p.m.]: Recently I attended the Hellenic Club in Sydney for the launch of a book called The Gre...

—August 7—October 28, 2004. A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers, Aristophanes, Plutus, 388 B.C. Greeks have a long history of travel and migration which dates back to the third century BC (Tsounis, 1971 pg 41). They...

From: http://www.oneira.net.au/gaw.htm Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski investigate the historical and contemporary Greek-Australian female presence a subject that has unfortunately not received the attention it sho...

Australian Capital Territory Public Place Names 2002, No. 11 (Street Nomenclature – Gungahlin) Disallowable Instrument DI2002-171 made under the Public Place Names Act 1989, section 3 (Minister to determine names) I DETE...

From, Neos Kosmos, (Melbourne) Monday 21-6-2004 English Edition. http://www.neoskosmos.com.au//040621/nkew/entertainment/entertainment_index.shtml Faces beyond the Greek cafe Between the late nineteenth century and the e...

Evzone soldiers marching in Brisbane. Zonnysthai in the ancient times meant forearming. Evzone, thus, is the well-armed man (Information taken from: Greek traditional costumes - flags and banners, http://www.cable-infin...

Direct hits by cannon shellfire from a Bristol Beaufighter aircraft on an enemy merchantman. Beaufighter Squadrons operating from Middle East bases are continually patrolling inlets and waterways of the Aegean coast for...

"The Greek ethnic school in Armidale was established in 1982. It held classes on Sundays during school terms at one of the local primary schools. It closed down in 1987 because most of the children had either moved out o...

This refers to the travelling salespeople who moved from one country town to another promoting the goods produced by their companies. They sold wholesale products, for example Allens sweets and Cadbury's choclates, to ca...

A.H.E.P.A. was first established in Scone, NSW., in 1935. The majority of the Australian Greeks who established AHEPA were Kytherians. It was modelled on the American H.E.P.A. which had been set up in 1922. The organisat...