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THE GREEK AUSTRALIAN The oldest circulating Greek newspaper outside Greece email: VEMA [email protected] FEBRUARY 2006 Tel. (02) 9559 7022 Fax: (02) 9559 7033 Our Primate’s View In this issue... The so-called ‘Catharsis’ in the Church of Greece PAGE 5/23 WINDOWS TO ORTHODOXY: Fasting in the Orthodox Church PAGES 8/26-9/27 Opening of the Law Term TRAVEL: Lefkada’s local colour Service in NSW FULL REPORT ON PAGE 4/22 PAGE 18/36 Federer wins Open but... Marcos Baghdatis won the hearts PAGE 20/38 Dr Ken Michael uro Funeral Service sworn in as Governor Eëëçíéêü Ïéêïãåíåéáêü Ãñáöåßï Ôåëåôþí of W.A. Tel: (02) 9747 6604 PAGE 11/29 Available 24 hrs 114543 FEBRUARY 2006 2/20 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA Australia, Greece offer helping hands in Beijing Olympics Previous Olympic hosts are lendingtheir hands to the organizers of the 2008 Games as experts from Australia and Greece came to share their experience with their Chinese counterparts. Led by Major General Sotirios Tsenes, a group of four security experts from Athens, the host city of the 2004 Olympics, opened a three-day seminar with Beijing’s Olympic Security Coordination Group, coinciding with the launch of the representative office of the Sydney-Beijing Olympic Secretariat. “The foundation of successful security On March 10, 1876, the first dis- work during the Olympic Games is to pre- cernible speech is transmitted over a dict all the potential dangers and make Greece spent a record 1.5 billion US dol- of SBOS and also the chief executive officer telephone system when inventor beforehand preparations,” Tsenes told the se- lars on security for the 2004 Olympics, the of the Sydney Olympics organizing commit- Alexander Graham Bell (photo) sum- minar. first summer games since the September 11, tee. mons his assistant in another room by “Strengthening cooperation with experi- 2001 terror attacks. The Greeks also received “The work of SBOS since 2001 has been saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want enced international organizations is also regular security advice from several coun- of great mutual benefit to Australia and to you." Bell had received a comprehen- important.” tries, including the United States and Britain. Beijing. Our office in China will be a contin- sive telephone patent just three days Last November, the coordination group for Besides security issues, the Beijing organ- uous channel of communication and a con- before. the Beijing Olympic Games signed the izers will get more support from Australia as tinuous mechanism force operation between “Memorandum of Understanding on 2008 the permanent China representative office of Australia and Beijing.” CLAY TKOS LISTON Beijing Olympics and Paralympics Security Sydney-Beijing Olympic Secretariat was set Sydney 2000 was dubbed the “best-ever” February 25, 1964 Cooperation” with the Ministry of Public up recently. Olympics by former International Olympic Order of the Hellenic Republic, in a bid to “Australia’s support for Beijing has a long Committee president Juan Antonio Sama- On February 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius enhance cooperation between the two sides. history,” said Sandy Hollway, senior adviser ranch. Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knock- out. The dreaded Liston, who had twice A Greek odyssey demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favorite. However, By TONY RAGGATT Clay predicted victory, boasting that he would "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" Bogiatzis who operates long-time family drycleaning and and knock out Liston in the eighth round. laundry business Great Northern Laundry has won the covet- The fleet-footed and loquacious youngster ed Overseas Study Award run by the Textile Rental and needed less time to make good on his claim- Launderers Association in conjunction with the Hospital -Liston, complaining of an injured shoulder, Laundry Managers Association. failed to answer the seventh-round bell. A few moments later, a new heavyweight The award, sponsored by international laundry industry suppli- champion was proclaimed. er Filterfab, funds a round-the-world trip which will take Bogiatzis to the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and just about POLICE BRUTALITY any place in between he cares to name. CAUGHT ON VIDEO Apart from visiting the world’s biggest laundry operations and March 3, 1991 laundry equipment manufacturing centres, Bogiatzis will use the trip to visit the former family homeland he has never seen - the At 12:45 a.m. on March 3, 1991, robbery small Greek island of Kastellorizo. parolee Rodney G. King stops his car after His family emigrated to Australia in 1920s. His grandfather leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit George Bogiatzis started the family laundry business in Townsville through the streets of Los Angeles, in 1928. California. The chase began after King, “I went to New Zealand when I was still going to school but apart who was intoxicated, was caught speeding from that I have never been overseas,” Townsville-born Bogiatzis on a freeway by a California Highway said. Patrol cruiser but refused to pull over. Los Filterfab national sales manager Bernard Fazakerley said the Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cruisers Overseas Study Award was effectively the industry’s laundry oper- and a police helicopter joined the pursuit, and ator of the year title. when King was finally stopped by Hansen The list of winners of the award read like a who’s who of the Dam Park, several police cars descended on laundry industry and the coveted title had been dominated by large Townsville launderer Mark Bogiatzis is set for the trip of a lifetime his white Hyundai. public companies and the healthcare sector, he said. after cleaning up in the industry’s national laundry awards. “Mark has developed his business over the last three or four years destination of Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays and last week THE BOSTON MASSACRE and is running it very well,” Mr Fazakerley said. also took on Townsville’s Mater Hospital as a customer. March 5, 1770 “He has a good grasp of the issues facing the industry and is well regarded by his peers.” “The business is growing and I think there is more room for growth,” he said. On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, Bogiatzis bought the business from his father, Michael, seven “By June we will have the most modern equipment of any laun- a mob of American colonists gathers at the years ago and has been building up trade servicing centres dry in country Queensland including Cairns. Customs House in Boston and begins taunt- throughout North Queensland. “It will be a big thing for us.” ing the British soldiers guarding the building. The company, which employs 60 people, has just acquired a new However some of the laundries he will visit as part of the study The protesters, who called themselves $500,000 ironing machine and is set to take delivery of a new tour will dwarf the Townsville operation. Patriots, were protesting the occupation of $600,000 washing machine in March. He said the Sunlight Laundry in London washed 2000 tonnes a their city by British troops, who were sent to Bogiatzis said business was booming and believed the tourist week, and a laundry business in Las Vegas transported the linen Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation industry must be doing particularly well at present. and garments in semi-trailers. measures passed by a British parliament “Normally January is a quiet time ... but now it’s like peak sea- “That is something I’d like to see,” he said. that lacked American representation. son,” he said. “Last year we were doing 30 tonnes a week but now we are push- No doubt he and his wife Samatha will be more than interested ing through over 65 tonnes.” to visit the Greek isle which his family left amid the chaos of the He believed Australians holidaying close to home may be behind times so many years ago before embarking on an Australian the surge in activity. odyssey. The company has picked up the laundry contract for the resort Townsville Bulletin (11-1-2006) FEBRUARY 2006 The Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 3/21 Editorial Scandal leaves state in a mess A seminal liberalisation beginning of the twenty-first century, however, our problem is the creation of a privileged class of workers by a group of It’s quite a relief to see that the investigation into Vodafone, Across-the-board wage agreements have been the norm in unions. These overprivileged workers, chiefly in the public sec- whose network hosted the controversial spy software that Greece for decades. They hold particularly strongly for manu- tor and banking, work short hours, often making time for second allowed eavesdroppers to tap top government phones, is far facturing industries like textiles and metallurgy. In banking, they jobs, and retire early, often in their fifties. In the process, they are stricter than the initial praise by the public order minister of the started well before the Second World War and were formalised stifling the rest of the economy. (Only last month the finance firm’s CEO would have it. Indeed, evidence is growing that in 1955. The socialists under Andreas Papandreou strengthened minister raised the proportion of tax banks must advance on the Vodafone executives are also involved in the case - and that will the hand of federal unions in the process, but never was the following year’s taxes to 80 percent, in order to help pay a bloat- be hard to deny if the alleged suicide of Vodafone technician negotiation process between employers and such federal unions, ed public payroll).