Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic
In the current health crisis, we might ask what needs to be cured more urgently: the virus itself or people’s poor sense of moderation. We…
Australia’s post-war recovery program provides a direction as to how to get out of this
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the world, wartime metaphors abound. And, with what amounts to a war economy now in place, attention has inevitably…
Turkey: Pressures, Attacks, and Discrimination against Christians
When Protestants introduce themselves to the authorities as a church, they receive warnings that they are not legal and may be closed down.In 2019, however,…
CORONOAVIRUS CLOSURES: Everything that will shut from midnight tonight
Australians will face even tighter restrictions on daily life as the country grapples with the an upturn (that will peak sometime inn April or May)…
Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now
The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly disease. Words like “epidemic” and “pandemic” (and…
3XY Radio Hellas and the Fronditha Care 2020 Radiothon. Heartwarming generosity amid virus panic
The local Greek Australian community has dug deep despite the current uncertain climate to make sure our elderly don’t get left behind. Fronditha Care’s biennial…
What coronavirus has done or could do to your super — and why you shouldn’t panic
Watching the stock market nosedive and freaking out about what it’s doing to your super? Superannuation analyst SuperRatings has a message for you — don’t…
Coronavirus: life Sciences or death Sciences?
Spiro Skouras, former executive producer at Newsbud, has emerged as one of the more engaging and erudite of the young investigative journalists who have been…
Coronavirus: Greece holds its breath as tens of millions of Italians put in quarantine
As the number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 84 on Monday with 11 new infections identified, health authorities called on people with…
Stocks savaged, Italy on lockdown, Trump seeks to reassure as coronavirus spreads
ROME (All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners made clear on Monday how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach…
NUGAS: Insights of a medical student in the land of Hippocrates
When I arrived at the front doors of the General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos in Crete, it’s safe to say I had no idea what…
Greece’s Migrant Crisis: “A powder keg ready to explode”
“People have seen their properties destroyed, their sheep and goats have been slaughtered, their homes broken into. A few years back, when there were 5,000…