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Greek Australians


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    • Australians, Greek
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    • found: Work cat.: Tsiolkas, Christos. Barracuda, 2014.
    • found: Work cat.: Tsaloumas, Dimitris. Helen of Troy : and other poems, 2007:unnumbered preliminary page (born on Greek island of Leros in 1921; in 1952 he left Greece for Australia; divides his time between Melbourne and Leros)
    • found: Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2016:Christos Tsiolkas (Christos Tsiolkas (born 1965) is an Australian author of Greek heritage; born and grew up in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents) Dimitris Tsaloumas (Dimitris Tsaloumas (born 13 October 1921) is a contemporary Greek-Australian poet; born in Greece on the island of Leros; left for Australia in 1952 because of political persecution; among the many prizes he has received for his writing are the National Book Council Award (1983), Patrick White Award (1994) and an Emeritus Award from Literature Board of the Australia Council for outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature (2002))
    • found: Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2016:Greek Australians (Greek Australians comprise Australian citizens who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who emigrated from Greece and reside in Australia. The 2011 census recorded 378,270 people of Greek ancestry, and 99,939 born in Greece, making Australia home to one of the largest Greek communities in the world. Greeks are the seventh largest ethnic group in Australia, after those who declared their ancestry simply as "Australian"; under Notable individuals - Writing: Dimitris Tsaloumas, poet)
    • found: Racism, no way: anti-racism education for Australian schools web page, via NSW Government Department of Education website, Jan. 22, 2016:teaching resources > fact sheets > cultural diversity and multiculturalism > Australian communities: Greek Australians (The Greek community in Australia is estimated at 600,000-700,000 (including the second and third generations). 47 per cent of the Greek Australian community lives in Melbourne and 29 per cent in Sydney. Melbourne, Sister City to Thessaloniki in northern Greece, is the third largest "Greek city" in the world and an important overseas centre of Hellenism; Greek Australians have maintained many of their religious, social and domestic traditions; Greek Australians have become established members of Australian society with a major influence on the development of Australia's food service, construction, real estate, tourism and wine industries. While maintaining a strong cultural and religious identity they play a prominent part in Australian mainstream society in politics, the arts, tertiary education, business and sport; Australians of Greek ancestry)
    • found: OCLC, Jan. 22, 2016(titles: Greek Australians; Greek-Australians; Southern sun, Aegean light : poetry of second-generation Greek-Australians; Hellēnoaustraliana keimena = Greek-Australian writings; Hellēnoaustralianē paroikia = Greek-Australian monthly review; After the Odyssey : a study of Greek Australians; O Australiotes Ellenismos = Greek Australians; Cracking the code : an insight into code-switching and gender among second generation Greek-Australians; Epitychēmenoi Ellēnes Australias & N. Zēlandias = Successful Greek-Australians and New Zealanders)
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    • 2016-01-22: new
    • 2016-04-12: revised
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