Life Stories

Win ... Miller in Los Angeles yesterday. Picture: JEFF RAYNER By PETA HELLARD Daily Telegraph, Wednesday February 28th, 2007. p. 9. Happy Feet director George Miller has spent a lifetime trying to win an Oscar — and now...

George Miller at the Oscars. Oscar & Penguin in hand. February 26, 2007 There was joy for George Miller but disappointment for fellow Aussie Cate Blanchett at today's Academy Award ceremony. And, as expected, Britain's...

The Benaki Legacy Odyssey Magazine. January/February 2006. pp. 48-50 Antonis Benakis bequeathed more than his impressive art collection to Greece: he established an institution that symbolizes the idealism, romance, and...

NOTES FROM ACADEME 5,455 Brains and Counting By LILA GUTERMAN Belmont, Mass. USA. The phone has been ringing all morning on Patricia A. Georgopoulos's desk, but the most important call comes around 10 a.m. "Samuel Curry....

By Peter Mitchell in Los Angeles January 22, 2007 Article from: AAP Will the dancing penguins avenge their Golden Globes loss and will Cate Blanchett earn her second Oscar in three years? Has enough time passed for the A...

David Poland The Hot Button http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/index.html February 12, 2007 What are the odds that two filmmakers, best known for their work on action/fantasy films, would bring up the significa...

Producers with the noms: Doug Mitchell, George Miller, Bill Miller By RACHEL WIMBERLY In 1998, Bill Miller left the west coast of Australia with renowned expedition leader Howard Whelan and spent two weeks on an often st...

We always knew that our grandfather had an older brother, Emmanuel who had lived and worked somewhere in New South Wales early last century. Because grandfather died in 1948, many years before my interest in family histo...

A happy story in film Kim Shaw Wentworth Courier, 31st Jan, 2007. Throw on your penguin suit and wad­dle along to Popcorn Taxi’s first event of the year; a forum with Mr Happy Feet himself, George Miller. For eight years...

Mayor - Belyando Shire - elected March 2004 First elected to council in March 1997. Appointed Deputy Mayor in 2000 and appointed Mayor in August 2003. Council appointed committees: Belyando Shire Tourism Committee; Bely...

The first member of Jim’s family, who ventured to a new life in Australia, was his father Andy (Anargrios) Panarettos. The exact date of his arrival is not known, but he came in the late 1800’s, before the turn of the ce...

Sydney Morning Herald June 17, 2004 Photograph: Logic will prevail ... collectors Ray Wilson, left, and James Agapitos with some of their works. Photo: Jacky Ghossein A significant collection of Australian surrealist art...

In 1974, on the recommendation of the Archbishop, Nicholas Laurantus was made an Archon of the Greek Orthodox Church in recognition of his many gifts to his birthplace, Kythera, to St Basil’s Homes for the Aged, and to...

Introduction In the first half of the 20th century, the largest group within the Greek community in Queensland were the Kytherians. They played a vital role in the formation and leadership of Greek communities in Brisban...

From The Kytherian, Newletter of the Kytherian Association of Australia, March 2001. pp. 8-9. On Australia Day, 2001, Andrew Sourry was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia, for his services to the environment. Both...

PHOTO: Anna and Theo Coroneo with young Dana Wilson, co-star of The Shiralee, (an Australian film starring Peter Finch, 1957) at the Pre­mier of the film held at the Civic Theatre, Scone. Professor Minas Coroneo and the...

Gazzard, Marea working on Mingarri Introduced by James Agapitos exclusively for O KOSMOS A year has passed since I wrote my first article/interview at the invitation of the Editor of O KOSMOS, Mr George Tserdanis. The p...

Front page of Neos Kosmos, the largest circulation Greek language newspaper in Australia, announcing Archie Kalokerinos as the most prominent Greek Australian for the period from 1900-2000. Monday the 20th December. 199...

Phocas, Seraphim (1839? - 1917), Greek Orthodox priest, was born at Madytus (Eceabat), south of Gallipoli, Turkey, son of Ioannis Phocas and his wife Susanna. Orphaned at 5, he was adopted and raised by his godfather and...

Comino, Athanassio (1844?-1897) and John(1858?-1919), oyster merchants, were born on the Ionian island of Kythera (Cerigo), Greece, sons of Demetrio Comino, farmer, and his wife Agapy, née Menego. In 1873 Athanassio arri...