THE GREEK AUSTRALIAN The oldest circulating Greek newspaper outside Greece email: VEMA [email protected] APRIL 2004 Tel. (02) 9559 7022 Fax: (02) 9559 7033

In this issue... Our Primate’s View The invisible “terrorism”

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PRIME MINISTER COSTAS KARAMANLIS:

Greeks hope homecoming will bring gold PAGE 20/38 ‘We are doomed to succeed...’ ''I deeply believe that the magnificence of the Olympic spirit lies in the fact that it unites us all in a common, humanity-wide ideal''

FOOD & WINE “The cupboard was bare...” Essential ingredients for the kitchen

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TRAVEL The Acropolis No. 1 destination A priestess holds the Olympic Flame during the practice session of the Lighting ceremony held in Ancient Olympia, Wednes- day 24 March 2004. © ANA/ORESTIS PANAYIOTOU for tourists to Greece INSERT: Prime Minister Mr Costas Karamanlis. FULL REPORT ON PAGE 18/36 PAGE 16/34 APRIL 2004 2/20 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA

ADDRESS OF HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP STYLIANOS FOR GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY delivered at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, March 28, 2004 Sisters and Brothers, our towards certain important events. Allow me first of all to extend However, it is obvious that to each and all of you a most remembrance is not the appro- cordial welcome to this annual priate term to express the full- celebration of the National Day ness of a celebration which tran- of Hellenes in every part of the scends time and historical condi- world, and, at the same time, the tions. Annunciation of the Mother of ‘Rembrance’ is basically an our Lord, concerning the salva- ability of the human soul which, tion of the entire human race. despite emotion and intelli- We gather here every year, not gence, can easily be distorted or only Greek Australians, but even destroyed, as for example rather as fellow citizens of all by an accident or disease. In POPE JOHN PAUL II SHOT possible ethnic, religious and such a case, the opposite of May 13, 1981 other cultural backgrounds, in ‘remembrance’ is of course order to honour liberty, peace, ‘forgetfulness’. Near the start of his weekly general justice and dignity for every The sad phenomenon of the audience in Rome's St. Peter's Square, human person, regardless of illness called ‘Alzheimers’ in space and time. our times is quite eloquent proof His Eminence, during His address for Greek Independence Day Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously at Sydney’s Opera House wounded (photo) while passing Without underestimating in of the fragility of remembrance. through the square in an open car. The the least the sacredness of the For this reason, the most appro- Perhaps this is the right place Taking into consideration assailant, 23-year-old escaped Turkish concrete events which we are priate term expressing a deeper to remind ourselves that the what is happening all over the murderer Mehmet Ali Agca, fired four commemorating on the men- and stronger bond of the human Orthodox Church speaks always world in recent years under the shots, one of which hit the pontiff in tioned double celebration, I conscience with memorable of ‘eternal memory’ for every slogan of ‘globalisation’, we the abdomen, narrowly missing vital would ask you to give me your events is ‘memory’. human being departed from this must state unreservedly that the organs, and another that hit the pope's attention only for a few This term holds together life. This obviously indicates priorities supported by the cen- left hand. moments, to contemplate more moral and spiritual qualities as qualities which transcend the tres of decision-making are quite specifically this year, what well which dictate uncondition- limitations of this world. often morally unacceptable. ‘anniversary’ in general means, al commitment - a lifetime Following this short analysis, To be more precise, we must Ground broken for Suez Canal: for the stability and the well- commitment of individuals and it is obvious how important it is say that humanitarian values April 25, 1859 being of an individual or of a groups. for all of us to contemplate the cannot survive if decision-mak- whole nation. This is why people through- importance of anniversaries ers on the international scene At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the At first glance, one might out the ages have always given like today’s celebrations. today prefer to support econom- Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to have thought that ‘anniversary’ the name ‘memorial’ to any After all the above, we should ic and strategic growth and con- stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez is an external repetition of ges- monument which reminds us of acknowledge, once again, the sumerism, rather than ethical, and connect the Mediterranean and the Red tures which should express more sacred sacrifices for the com- fact that sacrifices for ideals – cultural and spiritual develop- seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplo- or less remembrance and hon- mon good, or for eternal ideals. such as those held by the heroes ment. mat who organized the colossal undertaking, of Greece and the philhellene Commemorations such as delivered the pickax blow that inaugurated supporters of her Independence today’s will help us to keep the construction. Struggle in 1821 – must be com- necessary balance, for the bene- False hopes memorated today more than fit of all people suffering Mutiny on the HMS Bounty ever. throughout the world. April 28, 1789 By K.I. Angelopoulos candidate country (Turkey)? Were Western European states Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the It finally seems that Athens not worried about the prospect West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a and Nicosia were wrong in of inheriting a handicapped mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master's expecting that the EU value state with derogations from mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his system and political principles the acquis communautaire loyal supporters were set adrift in a small, could guarantee Cyprus’s and, thus, a constant source of open boat, and the Bounty set course membership as a modern problems for the Union? for Tubuai south of Tahiti. European state. There can only be two As early as February, when answers: Either our non- Margaret Thatcher sworn in UN Secretary-General Kofi Atlanticist EU peers lack the May 4, 1979 Annan managed to draw the political leverage to block two sides into a process that Washington’s strategic plans Margaret Thatcher, leader of the has now culminated in the (also backed by London) for a Conservative Party, is sworn in as Britain's Buergenstock talks, the con- new regional order. Or it may first female prime minister. The Oxford- spicuous absence of the EU be that after the new wave of educated chemist and lawyer was sworn in from developments has been a EU expansion - further under- the day after the Conservatives won surprise to experienced politi- mining political cohesion - a 44-seat majority in general cal and diplomatic officials. none of the key member states parliamentary elections. For how could one explain the really cares whether a small fact that UN, American and and divided state at the corner Nelson Mandela inaugurated British officials are hammer- of Europe is able to function May 10, 1994 ing out the shape of a future smoothly within the bloc. The EU member while Brussels is Commission’s stand so far In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is essentially absent from the gives ground to such con- sworn in as the first black president of South process? Britain is, of course, cerns. Africa. In his inaugural address, Mandela, who an EU country. However, it Ever since Annan presented spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner took part because develop- his first draft settlement, the of the South African government, declared that ments directly affect its Greek political leadership - "the time for the healing of the wounds has national interest. Why has the both PASOK and New come." EU authorized the US and Democracy - were wrong to Britain to deal with an issue believe that the EU would that concerns two EU mem- insist on a solution compatible bers (Greece and Britain), a with the acquis communau- newcomer (Cyprus) and a taire. APRIL 2004 The Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 3/21 Editorial

The power of the country which is preparing to host the Cyprus The only thing they achieved after eight Olympic Games. years in office was to create an entangled web Resurrection This has also been a period in which opti- and the reformers of economic interests and a provincial social mism for an eventual breakthrough on interchange based on exchanging compli- For Greeks, whether they be religious or Cyprus has given way to a serious dilemma, By Costas Iordanidis ments, deploring the primitive nature of not, Easter is the holiday they celebrate even and when our faith in our accomplishments Greek society and then going home feeling more than Christmas, with its message of has been replaced by doubts about what we The statement by Cypriot President Tassos satisfied. hope and redemption. We can see this espe- actually have achieved and in which areas we Papadopoulos on Wednesday evening was Following ND’s electoral victory, they are cially in the Good Friday service, in which we are still woefully behind our European Union striking, not only in how he argued the case trying to put Karamanlis in a corner, raising honor Christ but in which each also remem- counterparts. against the proposed settlement and resisted false dilemmas such as whether the Greek bers and honors his or her lost ones. Within this climate of uncertainty and ques- entangling Greece by emphasizing that the premier should take a stand on the referen- With Easter, Christianity and pagan rites tioning, the Greek Orthodox Easter offered decision to be made in the April 24 referen- dum and recommend that Greek Cypriots come together, as do spirituality with the support with its message rooted in spirituality dum was the sole responsibility of Greek vote in favor of it. renewal of nature. The tradition of Greeks and nature, namely: “Draw strength” - from Cypriots, but also because of the emotional None of these politicians doing so - includ- leaving the cities for the countryside - either the springtime rebirth and from that God baggage it carried, particularly toward the ing the clan of ND elder Constantinos as visitors or returning home to aging parents whose faith in man was so strong that he cre- end. Mitsotakis - have considered the conse- in the villages - brings all of these forces ated himself in his image and then allowed Various reformers may well have been quences of such a break between the Greek together, reinforcing Christ’s message that he him to be crucified; from night-time hymns to annoyed, but their only permanent supporters prime minister and many Greek Cypriots as rose from the dead so as to offer us new life. the celebration of the Easter feast; from the are regular fans of the television programs well as the island’s political leadership, given At a time in which Greeks are in danger of reunion with friends and family and the return that persistently promoted PASOK leader that Greece’s involvement with Cyprus has losing many of their traditions, this celebra- to one’s village or country, the Greek George Papandreou during the election cam- no expiry date, based on either the earlier tion of the spiritual combined with enjoyment Orthodox Easter reminded us again of the paign. Zurich Treaty or the current Annan plan. of the unique natural beauty of the Greek charm of life and of the importance of mod- That attempt failed dismally as New Papandreou demonstrated political superfi- countryside becomes even more important eration. Democracy leader Costas Karamanlis won by ciality - if not folly - by linking a solution to for each one of us. It reminded us of the need to distance our- an overwhelming majority. European dynamics, even though the Annan Last year we celebrated the Resurrection selves from everyday vanities and trivialities, Now the same media outlets are trying to plan is, overall, a departure from the EU’s under the shadow of the war in Iraq - which to realize the essence of the journey which is frighten the Greek Cypriots into voting for acquis communautaire. had an unsettling and depressing effect on us life, to reimmerse ourselves in the real values UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s pro- Papadopoulos’s speech gave a crushing and - but which also carried hopes for a possible of society which get lost in the everyday hus- posed solution. They will doubtless fail again specific answer to the PASOK leader. The solution for the Cyprus problem and for a bet- tle and bustle. and will fall in the estimation of Greeks and Greek Cypriots will decide on the basis of ter future for our country. Over this Easter holiday, we gathered our Greek Cypriots. their president’s and other political leaders’ This year we awaited the message of the strength and remembered our values. Let us The problem with the reformists in Greece, positions, and Karamanlis will support what- Resurrection during a period in which this not forget them today on our return to our primarily former premier Costas Simitis, is ever the citizens of Cyprus decide. same war has been rekindled, and the ten- daily routine... that they do not have their own ideas and, sions have been magnified so much that they unlike other countries in the West, simply go loom as tangible threats, especially to our Kathimerini (13-4-2004) along with third-party advice. Kathimerini (13-4-2004)

both of these are not good. HONORARY GREEK CONSULATE It seems to me that someone has their Talking wires crossed. Perhaps that someone has OF QUEENSLAND EXPANDS confused the concept of being a student with that of being institutionalised. Point Certainly, if one wants to run an order- by Ann Coward ly school, passive compliance would make life easier for those in authority. No Never let the facts get in the way doubt, if one wanted to run an orderly of a good theory: it’s elementary country, or an orderly gaol, the same would also apply. Many a parent, no doubt, has at times Lately I’ve had some very interesting allowed themselves the odd fantasy about discussions with a couple of young uni raising passively compliant children. students over an issue raised by their edu- Some, unfortunately, achieve it. cation and early childhood lecturers. It Not all educators, though, would agree was about what constitutes the ideal with the stance taken by the two young school student. students’ lecturers. Nor would many of To my horror, and to these two young those responsible for training people for people’s dismay, current thinking on what practical situations. An engineering lec- Mr Alex Freeleagus (left) and Mr Raptis at the reception makes a child an ideal school student is a turer, for example, told me a few years generous dose of passive compliance. back about his despair over the growing More amazing was the revelation that the trend towards a lack of inquiry by school Greece’s veteran Honorary Consul General tant position and look forward to working with worst, according to someone’s study, are leavers and their unrealistic willingness to for Queensland, Alex Freeleagus, announced Alex for the benefit of the Greek community.” Greek-Australian children. Why? Well, trust anything a computer or calculator recently the appointment of leading Gold Coast Greek-born, Mr Raptis’initial focus will be on because they don’t passively comply. * spits out. businessman Jim Raptis OBE as an Honorary regional Queensland, an acknowledgement of The problem, apparently, basically Surely what qualities we encourage in Greek Consul in the Honorary Greek Consulate his 30 years as a resident of the Gold Coast and stems from Greek-Australian parents who our school students must boil down to of Queensland. The honour recognises his his early childhood years in north Queensland. appear to be over attentive to their chil- what sort of society we want: One full of long-serving dedication to the Greek communi- Mr Freeleagus, who assumed the role of con- dren. Because of this, according to those easily-manipulated, dull, passively com- ty. sul-General for Queensland after the death of who have carried out the relevant surveys, pliant children who grow up to be easily- Mr Freeleagus, will remain Consul General. his father in 1957, will continue to have overall the children then have the audacity to manipulated, dull, passively compliant “I am pleased to welcome Jim to his new role. responsibility. expect their teachers to also show a high adults? Or one full of loud, positive, ener- He is a highly respected member of the Greek Mr Raptis has played a pivotal role in the level of attentiveness. And this is not getic, inquisitive, healthy, creative chil- community and the wider Australian business Greek community through his position as pres- good. dren who grow up to be maybe not so community, he will bring enthusiasm and a ident of the Greek Orthodox Community, Gold It gets worse. The surveys, it seems, loud, but still positive, energetic, inquisi- well-proven service record to this position,” Mr Coast, for the past 17 years and as a member of reveal that Greek-Australian children are tive, healthy and creative as adults? Freeleagus said. the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek exposed to regular discussions between Mr Raptis, who continues to serve as manag- Orthodox Church in Australia. children and adults of all ages and as a ing director and chairman of property develop- In addition, he was a Commissioner General result have developed two undesirable * In contrast, the early childhood lecturer who er Raptis Group, says the appointment is an of the Greek Pavilion at World Expo ‘88 and he was so scathing in her discussion on Greek- opportunity to further serve the two countries was awarded an OBE in 1989 and a Centenary habits. Firstly, they attempt to engage Australians, put forward the theory that chil- teachers in discussion instead of restrict- he loves. of Federation Medal in 2003 for his services to dren who were more suited to the school envi- “This role will allow me to further cement the the Australian building industry. ing themselves to their own age group. ronment, and therefore should do well, were Secondly, they don’t always accept that more likely to be found amongst the aboriginal strong ties between Australia and Greece and Jim Raptis and his wife Helen will accompa- what they’re being taught is correct. And Australian community. the Greek community in Australia,” he said. ny Alex Freeleagus to the Athens Olympics “I am honoured to be chosen for this impor- where they will represent Queensland. APRIL 2004 4/22 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA Letters Founders of the Modern Olympics

Dear Sir agate the idea and to personally finance the of 1894 held in Paris. There, he made the first effort. After his agreement with the Hellenic speech suggesting that Athens should be the I must express my disappointment with cer- Government, the Zappian Olympic Games site of the First International Olympic Games tain aspects of the Hellenic Olympic Commit- were founded. Zappas financed the erection of to be held in 1896. tee. a building for exhibits, as well as the excava- “I claimed Hellas’ rights with regard to the While most people will be preparing for the tion and restoration of the ancient Panathenaic re-establishment of a Hellenic institution. Athens Olympics, why is it that so many have Stadium in Athens. Indeed, as Victor Hugo put it, the whole civi- all forgotten the anger we all felt when Coca Zappas died in 1865, leaving his immense lized world has a common grandmother, but Cola helped Atlanta to secure the Games when fortune for the benefit of the modern we [the Hellenes] have her as our mother. So we now know they where no were as ready as Olympics with the purpose to be held every we are in a way the uncles of the rest of the Athens was at the time of the bid? four years “in the manners of our ances- peoples. Here is our only advantage, if it is an Why have we all forgiven the Americans and tors”. De Coubertin was to use this money to advantage. Here is the source of my request indeed why has the Olympic Committee taken achieve what Zappas had begun. that the restored Olympic Games be inaugu- on so many US advisers, as compared to what According to his will, his body was buried rated on our Hellenic soil”. they stated in 1996? in Romania, and his skull at the new Olympic After the acceptance of the proposition, But even that is not as outrageous as what I building located in Zappeion, Athens. Visitors Athens became the site of the first institution- read on the Athens Olympics web site. When I can still see the inscription at Zappeion: “Here alised Olympic Games and Vikelas became looked at the founding of the modern lies the head”. De Coubertain copied the idea the first president of the new-born Interna- Olympics they continued with the nonsense of and had his heart buried at Mt Olympus with tional Olympic Committee. according France’s Baron de Coubertin the the inscription “Here lies the heart”. George Averoff, another Hellenic benefactor honour of being recorded as the founder of the Inspired by Alexandros Soutsos’ idea of from Epirus as was Averoff, was a resident of So given all of the aforementioned, available modern Olympics. reviving the ancient Olympics Games Evan- Alexandria. He personally financed the erec- on the internet and confirmed via IOC Yet this belittles and denies the pioneering gelos Zappas, proposed to the Hellenic gov- tion of the Athens Polytechnic School, the Archives, how is it that the Hellenic nation has thoughts of Alexander Soutsos, the personal ernment to finance the foundation of the Mod- Military Academy and the High School and ever allowed Pierre de Coubertin to claim all and financial support of Epirotes Evangelos ern Olympics. the Girls Institution at Alexandria. of the credit for founding the modern Zappas and George Averoff and the sporting As the renovation of the ancient Stadium When the Committee for the renovation of Olympics? Even the Athens 2004 website leadership of the very first IOC President, was not yet completed, the Games of 1859 the Panathenian Stadium asked him to con- erroneously gives him credit without any men- Dimitrios Vikelas. took place in Loudovicos’ Square (today’s tribute, Averoff stated that he would undertake tion of Soutsos, Zappas, Vikelas and Averoff. Omonoia Square, in the center of Athens). All the renovation of the ancient Panathenian Sta- Yet without these men there would have been Alexandros Soutsos’ Idea the official representatives - the Royal Family, dium, at his own expense. no idea for reviving the Games, no motivation Government MPs, Military and Public Subsequently, George Averoff was greeted and impetus and certainly no money. Alexandros Soutsos was a famous Hellenic Authorities - and many thousands of people by all Hellenism as the principal establisher It is time that the world recognised what the poet. In 1833, the newspaper Helios published attended. of the Olympic Games. In memory of his Hellenes did over a century ago but which, his poem, where he referred to the necessity As it was one of the first mass gatherings, patriotism, his statue was erected in front of they too, have now forgotten. for reviving the Olympic Games. The newspa- neither the people nor the police had any pre- the Stadium on the eve of the beginning of the A T Kenos per was published in Nafplio, the first capital vious experience of keeping the necessary Games. (Olympic certified weightlifting coach) of the new-born Hellenic state, in the Pelopon- order for the event. nese. The athletic competition had a more game- like than sportive character. As there were not Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia Plato athletes at that time, the Organising Commit- If our shadow could fly to your earth it would tee accepted the participation of workers, daringly shout to the Ministers of the Throne: porters, etc., who were attracted by the mone- GREEK WELFARE CENTRE Leave your petty politics and vain quarrels. tary prizes of the Games. According to the 378A King Street, Newtown, N.S.W. 2042 Recall the past splendour of Hellas. Tell me, press of the time, many anecdotes took place Phone: 9516 2188 Fax: 9516 3177 where are your ancient centuries? Where are during the Games: a policeman who was there your Olympic Games? Your majestic celebra- keeping the order, left his post and participat- tions and great theatres? Where are your ed in the races. Even a beggar, who pretended sculptures and busts, where are your altars to be blind, participated in the races as well! and temples? While the press criticised the Games, the Every city, every wood and every temple was ideal of the athletic competition was generally filled before with rows of silent marble statues. accepted, and this was the beginning of the Foreign nations decorated your altars with whole process of the Olympic Games. offerings, gold jars from Gygas. Creators, sil- The Games of 1870 took place in the restored ver plates and precious stones from Croesus. Stadium. At that time the organization was When the glorious Olympic festival opened, much better. large crowds gathered to watch the games There were nine games: three classic ancient where athletes and kings came to compete, games, four ancient, but not classic games, and Ieron and Gelon and Philip and others. Before two modern. Prizes were both monetary and forty thousand bedazzled Hellenes, Herodotus symbolical. There was a band playing an presented in his elegant history their recent tri- Olympic Hymn, specially composed for the umphs. Thucydides listened to the beautiful occasion. The judges were professors of the harmony of his prose and prepared to meet University, and a herald announced the win- him in competition as a worthy rival. ners. The King awarded prizes to winners to (G. Dolianitis, Vikelas, First I.O.C. President, the sound of the hymn. International Olympic Academy, [S.Y.]) The 1870’s Games were an enormous suc- ÐïéìåíÜñ÷ïõ ìáò ÓåâáóìéùôÜôïõ Áñ÷éåðéóêüðïõ ê.ê. cess and the press dedicated triumphal articles Influenced by the ideas of that poem, the both to the organization and to the accom- great philanthropist Evangelos Zappas pro- plishment of the Games. More Games were to posed the revival of the Olympic Games. follow in years to come. Demetrios Vikelas was born in 1835 in Evaggelos Zappas Syros, one of the Hellenic islands of the Aegean, and died in 1908 in Athens. He was a ôçëåöùíüíôáò Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in a vil- merchant in London, but since literature was lage at Epirus, Northern Hellas. In 1831 he his real love, he soon became a well-known emigrated to Bucharest, where he became one writer. of the most important and wealthiest land- In 1894, he took over the initiative of estab- owners in the country. lishing the modern Olympic Games. After ê. Ìáñßá ÁëåîÜíäñïõ Influenced by the poem by Alexandros Sout- becoming a member of the Panhellenic Gym- Åê ìÝñïõò ôçò ÏñãáíùôéêÞò ÅðéôñïðÞò sos, in which he claimed the need for reviving nastic Society in Athens, he represented the the Olympic Games, Zappas decided to prop- Society in the International Athletic Congress APRIL 2004 Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 5/23 Our Primate’s View

The word ‘terrorism’ and more carefully the ‘manoeuvrings’ ones at times. (tromokratia in Greek) has entered the in our environment from long ago, so as However, in order to clarify the daily vocabulary of our world, barely in not to naively and unprotestingly enormous and often unforeseen dangers the last decades of the 20th century. This become ‘victims’ of unacceptable situa- caused or gestated by a confusion of the does not mean, however, that previously tions. And we shall unfortunately con- three authorities, through the subjuga- the public life of the human race was firm that the more dangerous and infuri- tion or sometimes complete absorption impeccable. Even less so ‘angelic’! The ating these manoeuvrings are, the more of the other two by the Administrative history of humanity records acts of vio- noiselessly and superficially they are factor, we should recall the institutional lence ever since people came into exis- accomplished ‘according to the letter of terms used for each of these in the gen- tence. The initial fratricide of Abel by law’ by a handful of ‘Officials’ at the eral structure of an orderly human soci- Cain was not just a totally unjust and highest levels of Administration and in ety (by both State and Church alike). profane act, but one of extreme and the various ‘autonomous’ or coinciden- The Legislative authority for unprecedented violence and terror. Yet tally exclusive areas of State and the State is the entire Parliament which we had never before spoken about ‘ter- Church. approves, modifies or abolishes laws. In rorism’ because the periodic outbursts of Only when we examine the data other words, it is not just the Govern- ‘violence’ had not been sanctioned as a carefully (in other words, informative- ment which decides, but also the Oppo- system – that is, a generalized and ly) and impartially, which means with sition which agrees or disagrees, censur- indeed a globalized form of determined courage and a with a spirit of freedom, ing or denouncing, before the entire Par- intervention. (whoever is not impartial has, in liament and public opinion, possible If the Greek term tromokratia advance, a spirit of subservience), only weaknesses or even the wrongful were to be translated as ‘terror-cracy’, it then will we see where and how, the ‘deceit’ contained in the legislative bills would be clear that the ending ‘-cracy’, real and many-headed Hydra of today’s submitted for endorsement, which are as occurs similarly in the word ‘democ- ‘terrorism’ is being forged underhanded- prepared by appropriate experts who By Archbishop racy’, is derived etymologically from ly and ‘in secret’. comprise the Legislative Committee. Stylianos the Greek word ‘kratos’=‘power’, and If we finally perceive this For the Church, the Legislative of Australia implies not just a greater or lesser ‘invisible terrorism’, only then will we authority is represented by the entire ‘dynamic’ intervention leading to a be able to gauge that, even the most body of the undivided Hierarchy which dubious outcome, but rather a truly deci- extraordinary attacks by Al Qaeda and comprises the Synod of Hierarchs that sive action. And when we say ‘decisive’ we mean an action which aims – by a callous and usually arbitrary decision – at specific, premeditated and accurately planned outcomes, regardless of whether the extent of their operative THE INVISIBLE range will also depend upon by various coincidental parameters. Having thus elementarily described by definition the dynamics of ‘TERRORISM’ ‘terrorism’ (‘terror-cracy’), we should acknowledge that we overtly perpetrate injustice even to the ‘deeds’ of history by any other obtuse warriors of the Bin is linked indissolubly and is simultane- when we begin to restrict acts of ‘terror- Laden mould, appear like children’s ously subject to the Holy Canons, sanc- ism’ only to the IRA (Ireland), the ‘fireworks’ compared to the ‘invisible tified from the first Christian centuries Basque separatist group ETA (Spain), terrorism’ - as exaggerated as this might and specifically by the Ecumenical the Sicilian ‘Mafia’, the Red Brigades sound. Councils. (Italy), Al-Qaeda (Osama bin Laden) or The great and invisible terror- From what we have already to any analogous groupings of this type ism of our world commences from the said, the extent and the responsibility of in the East and the West, whose common moment that in an ‘orderly’ society we each of the three conventional authori- denominator is bloodshed, physical cease respecting in practice the distinc- ties are distinctly transparent since the annihilation and panic. tion of the three well-known authori- Administrative (Government – Stand- If we restrict ‘terrorism’ – espe- ties, as these have been protected ing Holy Synod) cannot ignore the Leg- cially under its generalized and almost through the moral and philosophical islative or the Judicial, given indeed globalized form – only to blood and teachings of advanced peoples. These that the latter must not only be distinct instantaneous panic, then this means have been especially guaranteed by from the other two but also entirely free that we are viewing the situation alto- international Treaties and encoded and independent. gether myopically, or at least unilateral- Rights of the past two centuries and Very succinctly, but also with ly and physiocratically. This would have been ratified by the Constitutions great clarity, recent articles have denote that in human society we do not of at least the so-called free, democratic described not only the difficulties which recognize any superior ‘quality of life’ and civilized nations of contemporary the Legislative work faces by its very beyond the biological and bodily func- humanity. subject, but also the unthinkable injus- tions. The ancient axiom of cynical self- Consequently, the touchstone tices which an arbitrary Administration ishness ‘let us eat and drink, for tomor- for a life worthy of the honour and the can cover up under the veil of ‘legitima- row we die’ repeats itself today as a sacredness of the human person, cy’. The articles in mention, with specif- completely and shamelessly developed (regardless of whether we speak of an ic and glaring examples, were exposed ideological system! individual or a social whole), is the in the Sunday ‘Kathimerini’ newspaper Such backwardness, however, absolute respect for the distinction of Athens (21-3-04) on the one hand by would be unthinkable for people who between the three authorities (Legisla- the well-known Professor G. Kouman- have come to know- apart from the other tive, Executive, and Judicial). tos, and on the other by Regional Coun- ancient civilizations of the Far East- the We said that absolute respect cillor, Mr S. Rizos. Graeco-Roman antiquity, the unrivalled for the distinction between the three We would like to close the current arti- masterpieces of the Tragedies, the mys- authorities is the only approximate secu- cle with the findings and the wise obser- ticism of Judaism and Christianity as a rity valve for the avoidance of a ‘dicta- vations of the above distinguished legal divine Revelation, the ‘humanization’ of torship’, be it in relation to the State or experts in the hope that we have given institutions, and the absolute ‘individu- the Church. In any event, both deal with the necessary stimulus for ‘those who alization’ of the privileges of our com- a society of people, not of angels. And if have ears to listen with’, in order that mon human nature, in the name of the the law of grace and of the Gospel is as there might prevail a greater stability Renaissance and the Enlightenment. distant as the heavens from human legal and a more God-pleasing treatment of If, then, the restriction of the enactments, nonetheless those who are the problems that arise from time to time notion of terrorism to blood and bodies called to ‘teach aright’ the Evangelical in both State and Church, which in constitutes a disgraceful backwardness word and law, do not cease to be recent times have exceeded the limits of for every intelligent and open-minded exposed to the same temptations as the scandal, unfortunately bordering on the person, we should observe more deeply other common people, if not to greater brink of crime. APRIL 2004 6/24 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA

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Sydney and Queensland, albeit to a lesser ular emphasis on technological innovation. Comment by Sam Saltis extent. We will also present snapshots of property Melbourne, home to one of the world’s developments in other Australian cities. HACCI A recent poll conducted on the HACCI largest Greek communities, has played host to This month’s issue also highlights a fast website asked respondents to nominate spe- a particularly buoyant property market in growing Greek company called APIVITA. cific tax topics that were of interest to them. recent years. In this issue, Con Stefanidis, a Nick Koulbanis discovered the company The overwhelming response was taxation as prominent local real estate agent, shares his whilst browsing the site , and we think you Business Bulletin it relates to rental properties. Many Hellenes thoughts on the city’s real estate market, eval- too may find the article of some interest. Of have chosen property as their primary invest- uating its past and commenting on its future particular interest are the details it provides ment vehicle. Canberra’s Greek community prospects. about emerging Greek non-primary producers is particularly recognized for its high repre- In the coming months we will explore the that are shaping the future of European indus- Melbourne Property sentation in the property sector, as are those of property sector in greater detail, with a partic- try. Market Today, Victoria is a vastly different state Asian financial crisis in 1997 and global reces- Melbourne is a vibrant and rejuvenating from that during the 1980’s as a result of sub- sion during 2001. Getting of Wisdom metropolis that is growing as a community and stantial reform across the economy over the International events and around the world has an insatiable appetite for quality accom- last two decades. The floating of the dollar, serve to remind us how good life is here in Nicholas Koulbanis modation and infrastructure. This can only be financial market deregulation (entry into inter- Melbourne and Australia. There is optimism is a senior consul- re-enforced by major events such as the Com- national markets), tax reform (GST) will for the Melbourne property market due to the tant for Gartner. monwealth Games in 2006, the maturing of assist the state in preparing the economy into healthy population growth and strong econo- Nicho-las specialis- Docklands as a waterfront precinct, the re- the new millennium. my. Forecast by the Department of Infrastruc- es in business development of Waverley Park and the A truly remarkable performance by our ture stated that there will be an increase of process im-prove- replacement of public housing by the State economy during the last ten years given the 280,000 persons over the next ten years; ment and e-business government. R International Immigration inflow of consulting and has had 17 years of The products’ success is based chiefly on 170,000 From the Web business and IT the research and development that goes into R Interstate outflow or loss of 55,000 experience. Good Business... Naturally! each product, as well as their recyclable, R Natural increase, being births and deaths of fashionably basic packaging, on the high- 164,000. This population growth will create a demand What I know about: By providing high quality therapeutic and quality raw materials used, on the fact that they are not tested on animals and on the for 220,000 residential dwellings of which cosmetic products based on locally grown Computers simple approach of making “no inflated 77,000 will be flats, apartments, units and natural resources, Greek companies Korres Fast becoming smaller, even more connect- promises”. They are essentially also consid- townhouses. and APIVITA have developed a positive, ed and found everywhere. ered very ‘Greek’ products because they uti- Demographics and lifestyles in Melbourne ultra-modern industry that has been met with IT Strategy lize to its best potential the beneficial ele- is placing greater demands upon the design- overwhelming demand. Getting IT to effectively support the ment of local fruits, herbs, seeds and oils, ers, for the evolution of new building forms George Korres, pharmacist and founder of achievement of business objectives. IT is thus simultaneously providing support to the such multi level residential apartment towers the Korres Natural Products, described his rapidly becoming an integrated and natural local agricultural industry. in suburban retail strips. principle as one based on “combining nature, part of business (as it should be). In the year 2002, the 120-staff-based com- Melbourne’s flat and apartment market has science and aesthetics to create skin care Hellenic Business pany had a turnover of 7,55 million euros, endured five years of sustained growth where- products that are distinguished by their high Greeks doing what they have always done whilst for the year 2003 it is predicted to as in 2004 you may see the market struggle to content in natural active ingredients, while well... business! reach 11 million euros, with a growth, which absorb the new apartments, maintain good being safe, effective, uniquely packaged and Visiting Exotic locations is extremely capital intensive and strongly sales volume and sustain asking prices. reasonably priced.” Similarly, APIVITA, Where my work sends me (usually India targeted to exports. Abroad, Korres products Rental vacancies have risen over the last which claims to approach today’s consumers and sometimes the nearly as exotic Syd- are sold in upmarket department stores rather few years putting pressure on rental yields and with “a sense of sensitivity and integrity”, ney). than pharmacies, and have much been laud- with significant new supply due to hit the mar- focuses on manufacturing products with “the Renovating ed by the likes of top-level celebrities such as ket, will further place pressure on rents. highest possible quantity of natural active Don’t do it yourself unless you enjoy pain. David Beckham and Kylie Minogue. In the The most expensive suburb in 2003, was ingredients” that are designed “to ensure Greek Music UK, apart from being sold in stores such as Port Melbourne, followed by Docklands and ‘global’ treatment as opposed to ‘single- Something to dance to, not to sit down and Harvey Nichols , The Conran Shop and Lib- not surprising Toorak and Brighton. Sunshine minded’ solutions”. just listen to. erty, Korres Natural Products are as of very appeared to be the most affordable suburb in Both Korres, set up in 1996, and APIVITA, Small children recently sold in the first flag store abroad, 2003, along with Frankston and St.Albans. founded in 1979, have, over the last few Cute, curious and if you are parent often with more international branches already Whereas the highest turnover of property was years, expanded aggressively, with hundreds hard work (Not that I mind, my 3 year old underway. The company will be expanding recorded in Carnegie closely followed by of products based on medicinal plants, essen- daughter Zoe has me twisted around her lit- their European exports by also selling their Richmond, South Yarra and St.Kilda. tial oils, and other health-giving natural tle finger!) products in Italy, the Netherlands and Den- Best capital growth is expected to be deliv- materials. Greeks nationwide gradually but Greek Community mark. Korres Natural Products have received ered by those properties offering medium-term very steadily took note of the presence of Being Greek means you feel like you three awards in 1998, 2000 and 2002, for redevelopment potential or an opportunity to both companies, as the modern, aesthetically belong as well as pride in your culture. Innovation and Manufacturing Processes, value add through refurbishment. attractive, affordable products appeared in The most significant driver of rental growth every other pharmacy. In fact, Korres Natur- Entrepreneurship and Packaging Award and Merit for Corporate Identity respectively. in the retail sector recently has been the emer- Events al Products are found in over 3,000 pharma- gence of new retail formats such as conve- Nikos and Niki Koutsiana founded APIVI- For further details about the below events con- cies all over Greece, whilst the APIVITA nience stores, independent mini-marts, juice TA as a natural extension of their long-held tact the individual chambers. range are sold in over 4,000 pharmacies. bars and coffee chains. George Korres, a leading expert in homeo- involvement in phytotherapy, aromatherapy Price growth will be subdued, supported by VIC - Networking Function 21st April @ pathic remedies and herb-based products, and natural product development. Nikos the continuing low interest rate environment 7.30pm. HACCI will be hosting its first Networking developed the idea to create the full Korres Koutsianas has been the president of the and re-emergence of demand from the frus- function for 2004. The night will be an opportunity range of products whilst running his pharma- Greek Union of Industries and Representa- trated owner-occupiers kept out of the market. for you to meet new people and Network with like cy in Pangrati, Athens. In this high-tech lab- tives of Cosmetics and Perfumes, and, The consequent higher vacancy rates, down- minded people. Come down to meet the new oratory, officially licensed by the National together with his wife, was a founding mem- ward pressure on rents and poorer investment HACCI committee for 2004. Where: The Rose & Drug Organisation, trained personnel and ber of the Greek Association of Ethnophar- performance will lead to some correction in Crown 309 Bay St Port Melbourne Time 7.30pm specialized production facilities still cater to macology. this market. Cost $20 for Entry and a Buffet Dinner To avoid consumers’ homeopathic needs. With a staff of 105, APIVITA’s company sales in 2002 reached 15, 55 million euros, disappointment & to help with catering please When Korres’ clientele asked for skin care RSVP promptly. RSVP: 19th April, phone Kalle products of the same quality and efficiency and it is estimated that for the closing year of CON STEFANIDIS is a Director of Wilson Amanatides on 9288 1435 or 0419 483 424. Email: as his homeopathic remedies, he was 2003 the company’s turnover will witness an Pride Clayton ph:(03) 9551 6200 [email protected] inspired to create a range of skin, body and increase of 22%, and a turnover of one mil- e-mail: [email protected] hair care products, hair colourants, a sun pro- lion euros for the same period from exports Inaugural HACCI Golf Championship May tection range and anti-cellulite products. alone. 2nd. HACCI in conjunction with the Parthenon So far, the company exports to the UK, Amateur Social Golf Club will be holding a Golf Today, apart from having been widely wel- DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this comed by Greek consumers, Korres products France and Spain and as of August last year Day at Safety Beach Country Club on Sunday its Aromatherapy line was introduced in the article should not be relied upon to replace profes- can be found in leading department stores sional advice on specific matters. Neither Wilson May 2nd. The Cost of the event will be $80 per around Europe, the United States and the Far United States . Pride nor any staff and any other offices throughout player and $30 per observer. Registrations can East. Article reproduced fromwww.greece.gr the network will accept any form of liability for the be can be made through the website @ contents of this article. www.hacci.com.au APRIL 2004 Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/25

DID YOU KNOW? The word "Machiavellian" is named after Niccolo Machiavelli, who was Facts & Stats friends with Leonardo da Vinci. World’s most corrupt leaders named A global watchdog has identified the world’s than the Commission acknowledges, especial- most corrupt former leaders - with Indonesia, ly in the areas of procurement, political party the Philippines and Zaire topping the list. financing, patronage networks and conflicts of Determined to show the high cost of politi- interest.” cal embezzlement, the Berlin-based Trans- In South Africa, secrecy continued to sur- parency International said that Suharto, round the private funding of political parties, Indonesian president from 1967 to 1998, despite nearly 10 years of democracy, because embezzled $US15 billion to $US35 billion of a glaring flaw in the legal system - there was ($A20.35 billion to $A47.48 billion) while in no law regulating such funding. power from a state where GDP per person was “This lack of control allows the wealthy to just $US695 ($A943). ‘buy’ influence and access through secret Suharto was followed by former Philippines donations,” the report said. leader Ferdinand Marcos, stealing $US5 bil- A chance to amend the problem was left out lion to $US10 billion ($A6.78 billion to of a 2002 anti-corruption bill, it said. $A13.56 billion) and Mobutu Sese Seko, pres- Vote buying was a major problem in Asia, ident of Zaire, now known as Congo with the report said. $US5 billion ($A6.78 billion)) on the top 10 In the Philippines, an estimated three million list of political leaders drawn from the past two people were offered some form of payment in decades. the 2002 community elections. The list was contained in Transparency’s In Thailand 30 per cent of households sur- Global Corruption Report 2004, which singled veyed said they were offered money in the out several countries in Latin America, Africa, 1996 general election. central and eastern Europe, and East Asia for In Latin America, where corruption was corrupt practices in their political systems. called widespread, Peru was singled out for its Peter Eigen, the chairman of Transparency party funding regulations. International, said political corruption was The report noted that an attempt by Peru’s Former Indonesian President Suharto, identified by a global watchdog as the world’s most undermining the stability of developing coun- electoral court to introduce more reporting corrupt former leaders, with Prime Minister Murayama tries and damaging the global economy. requirements in 2002 was rejected by legisla- were not mandatory. - ($US114 million to $US200 million “The abuse of political power for private tors. Similarly, the African Union Convention on ($A154.64 million to $A271.3 million). gain deprives the most needy of vital public They had then drafted a law that actually Combating and Preventing Corruption * Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman - services, creating a level of despair that breeds withdrew any obligation for parties and candi- required 15 ratifications. $US100 million ($A135.65 million). conflict and violence,” Eigen said in London. dates to report on their fundraising activities. The list of top 10 alleged political embezzlers * Philippine President Joseph Estrada - “It also hits the pockets of taxpayers and Eigen said the tide of global corruption could also included these former leaders, ranked four $US78 million to $US80 million ($A105.81 shareholders worldwide.” only be turned by devoted international and to 10: million to $A108.52 million). The report alleged that corruption flourished national effort. * Nigerian President Sani Abacha - $US2 bil- AP in the majority of the central and eastern Euro- The report pointed to hope in the form of the lion to $US5 billion ($A2.71 billion to $A6.78 pean states hoping to join the European Union. December 2003 Mexico UN Convention billion). Pressure from the European Commission on against Corruption - the first global instrument * Serbian/Yugoslavian President Slobodan the 10 countries joining in 2004 had a major advocating a range of anti-corruption mea- Milosevic - $US1 billion ($A1.36 billion). impact on the ratification of the main interna- sures to be taken at the national level. * Haiti President Jean-Claude Duvalier - tional anti-corruption conventions, the report But Eigen noted that it requires 30 ratifica- $US300 million to $US800 million ($A406.95 said. tions to come into force - a significant political million to $A1.09 billion). “But the legislative process has tended to be will that was not expected to be achieved * Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori - slapdash and mechanisms to enforce new laws before the end of 2005. $US600 million ($A813.89 million). are lacking in many areas,” it said. As well, articles in the convention on crimi- * Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko “The result is that the problems are worse nalisation of illicit enrichment and bribery World record for yo-yo tricks broken in Melbourne The world record for the most number of yo- packed to the gunnels with a type of “child” yo tricks in a minute was broken in Melbourne larger and more wrinkled than usual. recently. As Alan Hassenfeld, chairman of Hasbro Inc, Ben McPhee, 25, from Newcastle in NSW, a $3 billion international toy company, put it - broke the previous record by five, performing to work in the toy industry you have to be able 40 dexterous tricks including walk the dog, to think like a seven-year-old. shoot the moon and three leaf clover, at the “I’ve got the best job in the world,” he told Australian Toy Hobby and Nursery Fair. exhibitors and retailers. Mr McPhee, a professional yo-yoer, redis- “I get to play like a little kid with toys, day covered the art in his final year at school. in and day out.” “I was looking for any excuse not to study,” Meanwhile, Oscar winner Adam Elliott was he said. engrossed at a nearby stand recreating the ani- “When I was a little kid everyone had a Coke mated character Shrek out of Play-Doh. yo-yo and then I found one (during Year 12) in Mr Elliott, who won an Academy Award for a drawer at home and the string broke. I went Best Short Animation for his film Harvie and got a new yo-yo and it spun!” Krumpet, said the title character was actually After a year at university, he dropped out and made from panel beater’s “bog” because it travelled to nine countries teaching yo-yo needed to be quite solid. tricks. But he said his love of making things dated In 1998, he entered his first ever yo-yo com- back to the Play-Doh fuzzy-pumper barber set petition - the world championships in Florida - of his childhood. The service commenced on Monday 29th March 2004 and came fifth. “I never thought that playing with this sort and operates Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 5.00 p.m. But Mr McPhee, who works for a yo-yo of thing could lead to an Oscar,” he said, manufacturer, has since retired from competi- rolling small circles of green Play-Doh that tion because he’s a professional and believes would become Shrek’s nipples. the contests should be for kids. The Toy of the Year award went to Funtas- But age wasn’t stopping anyone at the Mel- tic’s LeapFrog Leapster; a handheld interac- bourne Exhibition Centre. tive educational game. Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it was AAP APRIL 2004 8/26 TO BHMA The Greek Australian VEMA Windows to Orthodoxy God – Creator of the Heavenly World God is not only the Creator of the physical uni- greater than humanity’s, yet again infinitely lacking when com- eat”. He looked, and there at his head was a verse but also of the spiritual or invisible world. In pared to God’s. cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water.” addition to the visible world created by God, the (1Kings 19:5-6) Scriptures claim that God also created an invisible The task of the angels And in Luke’s gospel the joy of the angels when even one per- or heavenly world made up of ‘celestial and bodi- There are at least four different tasks attributed in the Scriptures son is brought to salvation is clearly described: less powers’ generally called angels. Even though to angels. They include offering continuous thanks and glory to “I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the God; secondly acting as God’s messengers on earth; thirdly angels of God over one sinner who repents” this invisible created reality is not part of the phys- serving God by fulfilling His will on earth and in heaven; and (Lk 15:10). ical or material universe, and therefore cannot be lastly being assigned to each person as a guardian angel. A pri- From this we could say that angels, generally speaking are the concretely located since it has no ‘geographical mary function of the bodiless powers is to offer continual ado- servants of God’s divine providence in the world.8 place’, yet it is no less real or truly existing than ration to God in offering Him praise, worship and thanksgiving our world. for His great glory. This task of giving glory to God is beauti- Regarding the fourth task of angels, the Orthodox Christian tra- fully described in the Divine Liturgy: dition also claims quite emphatically that, upon Baptism God The Orthodox Christian tradition would claim that the invisible assigns each person a guardian angel to guide and protect world is made up of nine ranks of bodiless powers or hosts “We give thanks to you also for this liturgy human beings throughout their life on earth. In the parable of mediating God’s will on earth. These include the angels, which you are pleased to accept from our the lost sheep Jesus urges the people not to despise the humble archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, thrones, hand, though thousands of Archangels and in heart for their guardian angel occupies a leading position cherubim and seraphim. From this we can see that strictly myriads of Angels attend you, the Cheru- before God. speaking angels are but one rank of the host of bodiless pow- bim and the Seraphim, six-winged, many- “Take care that you do not despise one of ers. The Scriptures offer the names of three angels: Michael1, eyed soaring aloft on their wings.” these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven the leader of the people of Israel; Gabriel2 and Raphael3 of It is for this reason that the Orthodox Church teaches that the their angels continually see the face of my which the first two are referred to as archangels. Divine Eucharist makes present in an anticipatory way the Father in heaven” (Matt 18:10). actual worship in front of God’s throne. In the Divine Eucharist of St John Chrysostom the Orthodox Regarding their beginning faithful pray, There is no doubt in the Scriptures that God created these heav- Regarding their second task, namely acting as messengers of “for an angel of peace, a faithful guide, a enly bodies just as He created the entire universe out of noth- God’s will, the best known example in the Scriptures is the joy- guardian of our souls and bodies.” ing. In wanting to stress the supremacy of Christ over the entire ous message brought by Gabriel of Christ’s birth to the Virgin The Orthodox Christian insistence that each person has a world to the Colossians, St Paul states clearly that: Mary7. Luke describes the angel Gabriel visiting the Virgin guardian angel is further exemplified in the book of Acts which “for in him all things in heaven and on earth Mary saying: states that the apostle Peter had an angel assigned to him.9 After were created, things visible and invisible, “Rejoice, highly favoured one, the Lord is Peter was released from prison he ran to the house of Mary, the whether thrones or dominions or rulers or with you; blessed are you among women” mother of John and knocked at the door. Rhoda, the house- powers – all things have been created (Lk 1:28). maid was so overjoyed that she ran into the house to announce through him and for him” (Col 1:16). This salutation clearly indicates the heralding function of that Peter was standing out at the gate. However she was not The Scriptures however are not explicit in stating when they angels who are sent to the world to announce the will of God. believed, since they knew that Peter was in prison and, think- were brought into existence. For this reason the Patristic tradi- It is from this function of bringing the good tidings of God to ing Rhoda was out of mind said to her: “it is his his angel” (Act tion offers various different interpretations. For example St the world that angels receive their name. The word “angel” 12:15). From this minor detail we can conclude that it was Gregory the Theologian and St John of Damascus believe that comes from the Greek work angellos meaning messenger. common amongst the early Christians to believe in the reality the angelic world was created before the material world. They Therefore angels are God’s messengers to the world. of angels and especially the existence of guardian angels. base such an assertion from the book of Job in the Old Testa- ment, which describes a conversation of God with Job regard- The third general function of service is described in the letter to Philip Kariatlis ing the creation of the world: the Hebrews: “are not all angels spirits in the divine service, Academic Secretary and Associate Lecturer “Where were you when I laid the foundation sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salva- St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College of the earth?… who laid its cornerstone tion?” (Heb 1:13). From this passage we can see that angels when the morning stars sang together and all mediate between God and the world bringing the power and 1 Cf Dan 10:13 & 21. the heavenly beings shouted for joy?” (Job presence of God into the world for its salvation. In the New 2 Lk 1:19 & 26; Dan 8:16; Dan 9:21. 38: 4; 6-7). Testament Scriptures they are depicted serving Christ during 3 Tob 3:16; 5:4. It is from this passage that certain fathers concluded that the his life on earth particularly at his birth, during his temptation 4 In its struggle against iconoclasm, the 7th Ecumenical Council stated that angels preceded the creation of the visible world. Other fathers, in the desert and at Gethsemane, in his resurrection and “we honour the icons of the bodiless angels.” such as the blessed Augustine contend that this invisible world assumption. In the Old Testament they are portrayed not only 5 St John of Damascus, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Ch. 3. was created during the creation of the first day when God cre- protecting as in the case of the three children in the fiery fur- 6 St John of Damascus, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Ch.3. 7 This feast day is celebrated on 25 March in the Orthodox Church. ated the heavens and the earth and said “let there be light!” and nace (cf Dan 3:25) but bringing the righteous to salvation. For 8 The Scriptures also mention another function of angels; namely to punish there was light. The reason for this is that angels are described example they provide for Elijah when he flees from Jezebel.: the unrighteous. Acts describes the death of Herod eaten by worms having in terms of light. What is important however is that the entire “Then he [Elijah] lay down under the broom been struck down by and angel (cf Acts 12:23). Other such incidents can be Patristic corpus would agree that the invisible world was creat- tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel found in Isa 37:36, I Kings 19:35; Jude 9; Rev 12:7. ed before humankind. touched him and said to him, “Get up and 9 Cf Acts 12:15.

Regarding their nature Angels are spirits; they are in fact called bodiless4 or immater- ial when compared to human beings, although when compared to God this cannot be said. It is for this reason that that many fathers believe that ultimately nothing created can be without materiality or bodily form. They are creatures created out of Questions & Answers nothing, just like the world, and out of God’s free will. Fur- thermore, God bestowed upon these bodiless hosts, His gifts of freedom, intelligence and immortality. Being bodiless there is The Church Fathers ask us to seek out and general. Be careful, however, in your judgment of potential no gender in angels nor do they need to multiply for survival Q find a spiritual Father at all costs; especially spiritual fathers - your pride may be an obstacle to the right since they are immortal. Their description in physical terms when desiring to practice prayer of the heart. choice. This also is a teaching of the Holy Fathers. If I cannot find one, or having found one, he is (six winged, many eyed) is purely anthropomorphic and must *** not be understood literally as they are spiritual beings. not experientially capable of guiding me - what should one do? From the Orthodox Church: 455 Questions and Answers, by Stanley S. Harakas, published by Light and Life. Since they do not have a bodily shape and are not confined by To grow spiritually, it is universally recognized materiality (such as doors or walls) they can move with ease If you have any questions about the Orthodox faith that you need a Spiritual Father who can come to from place to place; yet they are not unbounded or everywhere which you would like answered in the VEMA, send know you well, and guide your spiritual growth. present. Regarding this point, St John of Damascus writes that A them to “when they are in heaven they are not on earth: and whey According to the tradition you may seek to find one who can help you grow, so you may inquire are sent by God down to earth they do not remain in heav- VEMA - Q. & A. en.”5 This same father also points out that angels “are moved of persons of their own experiences, and approach some with difficulty towards evil but they can so be moved even priests for the guidance which you need, until you find one P.O. Box M59 Marrickville South though they are not.”6 What is meant by this phrase is that who is suitable. From then on, however, you must remain NSW 2204 with this priest in a spirit of obedience if there is any hope angels, being created as free beings remain steadfast in holiness or email them to: not as a result of a natural quality innate within them but by for spiritual growth to take place. Lacking this, you can God’s grace. Their knowledge and power are incomparably read about the prayer of the heart and the Christian life in [email protected] APRIL 2004 Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 9/27

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Various phases of the work on the prehistoric site of Akrotiri on Thera. In 40 years, out of the 50 buildings in the 1.2 hectare covered area, only four have been fully excavated. ‘But these four buildings,’ explained Professor Christos Doumas, ‘have produced huge quantities of plaster belonging to frescoes many hundreds of square meters in size. The frescoes that have been preserved up to now account for only one-third of the total number excavated.’ Akrotiri roof goes ahead

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Deputy Culture Minister Petros Tatoulis visited the prehistoric site of Akrotiri on Thera, or Santorini, on April 2 to check up on progress on the site’s new bio- climatic roof. He also asked for the site to be opened in time for the Olympic Games. “In the 40 years that I have been in charge of exca- vations at Akrotiri, it’s the first time I’ve had the oppor- tunity and the honor to guide a culture minister round this site,” said Professor Christos Doumas. The roof is the largest project to protect a prehistoric site in the world. Just the excavations for the pillars to support the roof, through pyroclastic rock (containing rock fragments of volcanic origin), produced 2,000 boxes of matter. “At this moment, 55 percent of the project is ready,” architect Nikos Findikakis, who is in charge of the pio- neering roof, told Kathimerini. “Another 22.5 million euros is needed in order to complete it,” he said. He explained the sum would pay for a layer of earth on the roof, doors and windows, a ceiling that will help extract warm air, facilities, interior walkways and exhi- bition areas. The former government had promised immediate funding of the project, but, Findikakis said, “though it had signed the technical report, there was no money.” For the roof to be ready in one to one-and-a- half years’ time, he said, there had to be a continuous At The Towers flow of funding. of Chevron Tatoulis asked that the site of Akrotiri be opened for the Olympic Games. “We can’t afford for it to be Renaissance, closed,” he said. dine, shop and play Akrotiri, closed since last November to facilitate in Chevron’s village works, will open in the summer. It will be free, due to atmosphere the complaints by visitors who found much of the site off-limits. Scientists, as well as tourists, also want to visit this unique archaeological site in order to see up close the pioneering construction work as well as surprise finds during Doumas’s excavations. The foundations for the 95 pillars, the girders, the Luxury Living... in the heart of Surfers Paradise space frames and the entire first layer of the roof plates are in place. The construction phase will hopefully have been finished in a few months, allowing the scaf- THE TOWERS OF CHEVRON RENAISSANCE folding to be removed and the site itself to be revamped. When the roof at Akrotiri is ready, five different routes will be available for visitors. Tickets will be for two hours, one day or three days. There will even be special tours for scientists and for people with special needs who cannot go everywhere. In 40 years, out of the 50 buildings in the 1.2 hectare covered area, only four have been fully excavated. “But these four buildings,” explained Doumas, “have pro- duced huge quantities of plaster belonging to frescoes many hundreds of square meters in size. The frescoes that have been preserved up to now account for only Visit our display from 10am - 8pm daily. Chevron Renaissance Village one-third of the total number excavated.” 3232 Gold Coast Highway Surfers Paradise Copious finds have been found at the site, with more Phone 07 5526 2736 or 1800 268 299 to come. Intact ceramic vessels alone come to around www.raptis.com/chevron 10,000. “It will take centuries to complete the excava- tions,” said Doumas. APRIL 2004 12/30 TO BHMA Greek Australian VEMA

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Have you ever asked yourself … how well can I explain and defend the authentic teaching of Airport terminal to Central Station and 15 min walk either through Prince Alfred Park or via the Orthodox Church to my children, grandchildren, pupils, neighbours, acquaintances or Regent Street, or Shuttle bus from Sydney Airport terminal to Central Station and 15 min workmates when questioned, or even to the ‘preacher’ who knocks at my door? walk through Prince Alfred Park. ARRIVING BY TRAIN, Disembark at Central Station for a 15 min walk either through Prince Do you feel that perhaps the time has come to set about some more focussed and serious study Alfred Park or via Regent Street. Disembark at Redfern Station for a 10 min walk down of the Orthodox Christian Faith whether for professional reasons or for your own spiritual Regent Street. development? What might the program for a typical vacation school day look like? Yes? Well then don’t delay any further but contact St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological · College which is currently offering an exciting range of courses for people from all walks of MONDAY TO FRIDAY life. 9.00am – 9.30am Matins · 9.30am – 9.45am Morning Coffee/Tea The Theological College is currently offering the following five day vacation schools (inten- · 9.45am – 10.30am Lecture sive courses) in four foundational subject areas designed for the general public: · 10.30am – 11.15am Lecture · 11.15am – 11.45am Coffee/Tea Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics 5-9 July 2004 · 11.45am – 1.00pm Lecture/Discussion/Video Byzantine History 12-16 July 2004 · 1.00pm – 1.45pm Lunch Introducing Theology 10-14 January 2005 · 1.45pm – 2.30pm Lecture The Liturgy and the Church Year 17-21 January 2005 · 2.30pm – 3.15pm Lecture · 3.15pm – 3.45pm Afternoon Coffee/Tea You can take just one, two or three of these intensive courses in any order. Alternatively, attend · 3.30pm – 4.15pm Lecture/Discussion/Video all four and obtain a St Andrew’s Theological College Testamur (no assessment is involved). · 4.15pm – 4.45pm Vespers · Extended Library hours available until 8.00pm If you hold a three year undergraduate degree or equivalent, you may enrol for a government · accredited Graduate Certificate in Theological Studies awarded through the Sydney College Will the Theological College provide accommodation during the vacation of Divinity. This Graduate Certificate will require participation in the four vacation schools school· week/s? plus the completion of relevant assignments. Additional course units can also be taken in order No. Students will need to arrange their own accommodation. University of Sydney Residential to obtain a Graduate Diploma of Arts in Theological Studies or a Master of Arts in Theological Colleges offer accommodation facilities which are within walking distance of the Theological Studies. College. Contact Darlington House (02 9351 3322), International House (02 9950 9800), or Wesley College (02 9565 3377), for further details. Bookings should be made as early as prac- Who can apply? ticable. Men· or women who hold a three-year tertiary qualification in a non-theological discipline can formally enrol in the graduate level program. Will meals be provided during the vacation school week? Refreshments· and lunch will be provided each day (included in the base cost). Can I still study if I do not hold a three-year tertiary qualification? Yes.· Places are provided in the graduate level course units for those who do not have formal Are there any fees involved? entry qualifications but who still wish to participate as auditors. Auditors are not required to Yes.· Each course unit/vacation school has a base cost of $300 for the 2004 academic year. submit written assignments for assessment and will receive a St Andrew’s Theological College Students formally enrolled in the graduate program are also required to pay Sydney College Testamur once they have satisfactorily participated in the four vacation schools. of Divinity fees: $52 entry fee (once only); $52 enrolment fee (per semester); $47 administra- tion fee (per course unit); $77 graduation fee (upon completion). All fees are subject to revi- How much time is a student given to complete their theological studies? sion in 2005. Students simply participating as auditors will receive the St Andrew’s The· full Master of Arts program normally extends for one-and-a-half years (full-time) and no Theological College Testamur upon completion of the four vacation schools and no addition- more than three years (part-time). Students enrolling in the graduate program who intend to al fees beyond the base cost are required. exit at the Graduate Diploma of Arts or Master of Arts level should plan, if at all possible, to complete the four foundational course units within one year. The Theological College requires How do I apply? that all students and auditors must complete the four foundational course units within two You· can request an application form from the Registrar via telephone or email, or you can years of enrolling. download a form directly from the College’s website at www.sagotc.orthodox.nsw.edu.au. Completed applications must be received by no later than Monday 24 May 2004. Applicants Where will the classes be conducted? will be informed of offers for enrolment by Monday 31 May 2004. Acceptance of offers and All ·classes are conducted on campus at 242 Cleveland Street [near corner of Cleveland and confirmation of registration must reach the College Registrar by Friday 4 June 2004. Regent Streets), Redfern NSW. The Theological College is located on the same premises as Payment for July vacation schools must be made by Friday 2 July 2004. the Central Office of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and the Cathedral of the Annunciation. Need more information? Is parking available? Contact· the Registrar. Tel. (02) 93196145 Fax. (02) 93194281 Email. [email protected] Yes.· Limited parking is available on site. How do I get to the Theological College? Whilst every effort is made to avoid changes to this information, published details may be ARRIVING· BY CAR, access via two gates located on Cleveland Street side of the premises. altered, without notice, at any time. The Theological College reserves the right to withdraw or ARRIVING BY PLANE, Taxi (approx. $20) from Sydney Airport, or Train from Sydney amend any part of its program without prior notice. APRIL 2004 Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 13/31

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QUEENSLAND CONSULATE CELEBRATES GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH OLYMPIC TRIBUTE For the The Honorary Consul-General of Greece mance of a team of Rhythmic Gymnasts in Brisbane, Mr Alex Freeleagus, hosted a organised by Mrs Meryl Pappas, an large Reception on Thursday, 25 March Olympic coach of Brisbane. One of these bibliophiles... 2004 on the occasion of our National was Eliza Gower, a leading prospect for Independence Day. the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Eliza The Reception, which was held at the lit Brisbane’s Olympic Cauldron, which Greek Club and Convention Centre, was was used to welcome the Olympic torch Sinai: Holy Mountains attended by approximately 400 guests, to Brisbane in 2000. At the same time, on and a Coral Sea including senior Federal and State Gov- a large screen, the audience was able to Fabrio Calzia & Marco Maroccolo ernment officials. see live the lighting of the Olympic Torch (White Star Publishers) In his speech at the Reception, Mr Free- in ancient Olympia. leagus not only spoke of the year of the Mr Freeleagus’ father, Christy, was the This is a large format ‘coffee table’ book. As well as Olympic Games in Athens, but also Honorary Consul of Greece in Queens- impressive double-page spreads showing photographs warmly welcomed the newly appointed land from 1919 until his death in 1957, of the coastline, with its reefs and tourist settlements, Honorary Consul, Mr James Raptis, as his when his son Alex, a Brisbane lawyer there are spectacular views of Sinai’s interior, including colleague. Mr Raptis will initially assist assumed this role, later becoming Hon- mountains, canyons, and rock formations. The colour Mr. Freeleagus with the Consulate’s oper- orary Consul-General. Mr Alex Freelea- and beauty of the various landscapes are overwhelm- ations in regional Queensland. gus hopes to serve the Greeks in Queens- ing. Chapters also give an overview of Sinai’s history The climax was a spectacular perfor- land well into the future. (with a selection of David Roberts’ lithographs), the Bedouin, and St Catherine’s Monastery. Although Tax cuts would essentially a book of photographs, the text is sufficient Net users warned of new online scam to whet the appetite for more. help boost A Sydney-based IT support company warned respond to the scammers," Mr Wallbank said internet users about a new online banking in a statement. Australian economy The Taste of Honey: A Greek Island Odyssey scam. "You should treat any unsolicited message Tax cuts would help boost Aus- PC Rescue managing director Paul Wallbank claiming to come from a bank, auction site or By Byron Ayanoglu tralia's economic growth this (Flamingo) said the new scam involved people receiving payment site with caution. year, according to a new report messages confirming bogus bank transfers for Mr Wallbank said the main concern was that by Canberra-based forecaster “Beware the wily Greek landlord” seems to be a recur- hundreds of dollars. people were being panicked into thinking their Access Economics released The aim is for people to log onto a dummy ring theme in books about Greece currently available in accounts had been hacked. recently. site through a link to dispute the transaction If people were concerned they should con- bookshops. This book has a twist in that the hapless The federal government is victim is a “xenos” - a Greek who emigrated to Cana- and type in their account details. tact their bank rather than clicking on the link reportedly planning to unveil tax "...We recommend (that) users ignore them. da when a child, returning to settle in Crete. Byron in the email, he said. cuts and launch a major spending Under no circumstances should you try to AAP Ayanoglu’s background is in food journalism and much spree in the lead up to the federal of the book centres on the joys of cooking and eating election. with friends. Easy to read, it is a light-hearted diversion. Call for Australian withdrawal from Iraq Access Economics said it believed tax cuts were imminent The chief lieutenant of radical Shi'ite Mus- "The Saddam regime (is) gone and ... we and that they would aid Aus- What’s in Store? A History lim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for Australia know how to control our country," Imam al tralia's economy, along with of Retailing in Australia to withdraw from Iraq. Hussani told ABC Radio through an inter- ongoing low interest rates, the By K.Webber & I. Hoskins Members of the militia loyal to the radical preter. rising foreign exchange rate and (Powerhouse Publishing) cleric today attempted to take control of police "To be here as occupiers, they are not wel- a bumper wheat crop. stations and government buildings in Sadr come here." The main risks to the economy This book, published in association with the NSW Her- City, a poor neighbourhood of mainly Shi'ites Imam al Hussani also had a message for would be if the housing and retail itage Office, is part of a series of books put out by Syd- on the eastern outskirts of the Iraqi capital Prime Minister John Howard. sectors run out of steam through ney’s PowerHouse Museum on popular culture, and Baghdad. "We hope that Australia will follow Spain in 2005 even if interest rates remain complements the Museum’s exhibits. Australian Seven US soldiers were killed and at least 24 their decision to withdraw from Iraq," he said. near their lows. Greeks co-operated by supplying photos and informa- wounded in fighting with the militiamen. "But we should also say that we thank very Prime Minister John Howard tion on the heyday of country cafes and milk-bars, Chief lieutenant of ad-Sadr, Imam Amer al much Australia for helping us and, through has vowed not to let the Budget although some were less than happy with the accuracy Hussani, said today the coalition forces should your TV, we want to tell the Australian prime go into deficit amid expectations of the final printed text. Disappointments aside, the immediately withdraw and return Iraq to local minister that thank-you for your help, but of tax cuts and a major spending many photographs (in colour and b&w) will rekindle control. please withdraw from Iraq." spree. many a memory, especially those of old drapery stores Mr Howard's comments came and barber shops. Four in five Greek Cypriots amid reports the government could unveil major spending and Food: A History tax cut announcements ahead of By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto oppose UN plan: poll the May 11 Budget to help shore (Pan Books) up its position before the election, An overwhelming majority of Greek Cypri- Polls conducted in recent days have suggest- which could come as early as Written with passion, this would have to be one of the ots would reject the UN reunification plan for ed that most Greek Cypriots would reject the August. best books on the history of food, from the invention of Cyprus if it were put to a referendum straight plan, while a majority of their Turkish coun- "Our position remains that we cooking to the industrialisation and globalisation of away, according to a survey published in the terparts would endorse it. have certain things we've got to food productivity. By looking at food, this historian Greek daily Eleftherotypia. More than 5,000 Greek Cypriots staged a spend money on," Mr Howard manages to touch on each great step forward in the his- A crushing 84.7 per cent would vote against mass rally on Saturday to denounce the UN told ABC TV. tory of mankind, including ancient times and in leg- the plan, with only 6.6 per cent supporting it, blueprint, which was unveiled this week in "We will not be going into ends. Of interest to all foodies and historians. while 8.7 declined to answer, according to the Switzerland by UN chief Kofi Annan after deficit, definitely not. poll of 600 people conducted by the Athens leaders of the island's Greek and Turkish com- "And if there is room after those A.C. polling institute VPRC on April 1-2. munities failed to strike a deal. two considerations, we will pro- Fully 91.5 per cent of Greek Cypriot respon- Both sides have expressed dissatisfaction vide tax relief, but in what form dents believed the final UN plan was unjust, with the outcome of the talks but there is and how much, I don't know." against 1.2 per cent who thought it was a fair heavy diplomatic pressure on them not to Meanwhile, the AAP economic The Greek Australian settlement. Of the remaining respondents, 3.9 reject the UN plan out of hand. indicator for March, also released per cent said it was neither fair nor unfair, Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos today, predicts that softening VEMA while 3.4 declined to give an opinion. has so far taken no public position on the final consumer demand is likely to The United Nations plan, which aims to plan although he is regarded as sceptical. have contributed to a slowing of reunify the island before it joins the European Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Australia's economic growth in Tel: (02) 9559 7022 Union on May 1, will be put to separate refer- Turkey occupied its northern third in response the March quarter, retreating Fax: (02) 9559 7033 endums in both the internationally-recognised to a Greek Cypriot coup aimed at uniting the from two previous periods of one Greek Cypriot south as well as the Turkish island with Greece. per cent-plus expansion. [email protected] north on April 24. 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Indigenous Exhibition a gift to Greece Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and Museum Victoria will the 2000 Olympic Games. “It demonstrates how some of the oldest living cultures in present an exhibition of Australian indigenous cultures in Ms Nori said Our Place provided the Greek public and vis- the world are adapting to the challenges and opportunities of Athens to mark the 2004 Olympic Games, NSW Minister for itors an opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres the new millennium, “ Dr Fewster said. Tourism, Sport and Recreation Sandra Nori said. Strait Islander culture. “Clearly there is an emphasis on the indigenous cultural Ms Nori said the exhibition - Our Place: Indigenous Aus- “The exhibition was curated by indigenous staff from the renaissance which has captured the world’s attention in the tralia Now- was the first indigenous Australian exhibition in Powerhouse Museum and Museum Victoria.” she said. visual and performing arts, “ he said. Greece. “It shares indigenous knowledge and spirit through art and Museum Victoria Chief Executive Officer Patrick Greene “This is Australia’s gift to the people of Greece. It will rep- artefacts that communicate joy, sadness, loss, struggle, sur- said: “This collaboration between two of Australia’s leading resent Australia in the Athens Cultural Olympiad program for vival and revival-stories of everyday life from more than museums provides an opportunity to present remarkable the 2004 Games” she said. 40,000 years,” Ms Nori sai. objects from our collections to new audiences in Greece at a “In fact, it is believed to be the biggest international exhibi- Our Place is based on traditional camp model of Aboriginal time when the eyes of the world will be on Athens.” tion in the cultural Olympic program, Ms Nori said. society, created by Alison Page,” she said. “The celebration of indigenous Australian culture could not She said Our Place would be reciprocate of the Greek Gov- Powerhouse Museum Director Kevin Fewster said the exhibi- have a better stage than the Athens 2004 Olympic Games,” Dr ernment’s gift in 2000 to New South Wales of 1000 Years of tion provided a new focus for an overseas audience that may Greene said. The exhibition will be staged at the Benaki the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece. have a limited knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Museum’s prestigious new venue in Athens between July 1 That exhibition was staged at the Powerhouse Museum during Islander people. and September 5.

Athens says cost overruns won’t force ‘Olympic discounts’ Nearly two million Top Athens Games and government officials to complete vital works on time, including ernment’s budget figures, including Olympic promised not to scrap any more projects for construction at the main Olympic complex costs. tickets sold the August 13-29 Olympics, despite serious and a new tram system needed to help 1.5 mil- Since taking office, the government has delays and cost overruns. lion visitors expected in Athens travel to scrapped plans to build a roof over the main for Athens Games “We are all determined to have no discounts games venues. Olympic swimming pool and reduced the in the quality of our work,” chief 2004 organ- Transport Minister Michalis Liapis said con- scale of a project to improve the course of the iser Gianna Angelopoulos Daskalaki said after struction crews will work through the Easter classic marathon route, a showcase event in a three-hour meeting with Premier Costas holiday this weekend to catch up on delays Athens. Karamanlis and ministers involved in prepara- facing the tram system, which will link city Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis ear- tions. center to seaside venues. lier this week said the government is still cal- “The time we have cannot change, and the “We are making every effort to finish this dif- culating the cost of multiple overruns and will work we have left to do cannot change,” she ficult job on time, and we will succeed,” announce the results before the end of the said. Liapis said while visiting a work site outside month. “Am I anxious? We all have a feeling of cre- Greece’s parliament building, where rotating The cost hikes are widely expected to push ative anxiety which is helping us get the job crews keep work going through the night. the government’s Olympic budget over the done.” The conservatives, who ousted the long-gov- targeted figure of $US5.6 billion ($A7.33 bil- Karamanlis’ new conservative government erning socialists in March 7 general elections, lion). has scaled back several projects and is fighting are currently reviewing all the previous gov- But Alogoskoufis renewed a pledge to cover all the additional costs. Athens Olympic organisers said they have “Greece has a very important obligation,” he sold nearly two million tickets for the said. “We have to stage the best Olympics August Games but over three million were DIVINE LITURGY games, and that’s what we’re going to do.” still waiting for buyers. AP ATHOC said they had secured 74 percent SERVICES IN ENGLISH - 2004 of their ticket revenue of 183 million euro IN SYDNEY N.S.W. ($A288.94 million). A total of three mil- (Saturday Nights, 6.50 - 8.15) Olympic athletes lion tickets were made available, mostly April 3, 17, 24 over the internet, to residents of the Euro- Church of Sts Paraskeve, Blacktown September 4, 11, 18, 25 get sun protection pean Union and other rich European coun- Church of St Stylianos, Gymea tries on the internet. May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 in sponsor deal Another 2.3 million tickets are to be dis- Church of St Euphemia, Bankstown October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 tributed through national Olympic Com- Church of Archangel Michael, Crows Nest mittees, international sports federations, Australia’s Olympic athletes competing in broadcasters, the International Olympic June 5, 12, 19, 26 the searing Athens heat will be protected from Church of St Spyridon, Kingsford November 6, 13, 20, 27 Committee (IOC) and official sponsors. sunburn and treated to skin moisturisers under “The ticket sales programme is develop- Church of All Saints, Belmore the latest sponsorship deal. July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 ing at an impressive tempo, despite Hamilton Laboratories is the latest company appearances of instability on the interna- Church of Archangel Michael, Crows Nest December 4, 11, 18 to sign up as a sponsor of the Australian team, Church of St Euphemia, Bankstown tional scene,” organisers said in a state- providing sunscreen, dry skin treatments and ment. August 7, 21, 28 lip balm to athletes. Church of Resurrection, Kogarah But Athens hoteliers complain of a lack The agreement spans five years and covers of interest by foreign tourists, blaming the Athens Games, 2006 winter Olympics in global terrorist threats and an economic Torino and 2008 summer Games in Beijing. downturn in the developed countries. Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy The company will also direct part of the pro- ATHOC did not reveal how many tickets burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, ceeds from the sale of sunscreen, lip balm and were sold to Greek and foreign visitors, but and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, dry skin treatment displaying the Olympic by last June when 600,000 tickets were and you will find rest in your souls. For my yoke is easy logo direct to the Australian team. sold, four in five had gone to Greeks. and my burden is light. Australian Olympic Committee president Organisers expect a last sales push from (Mathew 11:28-30). John Coates said the sponsorship was impor- June 1, when ticket counters in the tant and timely. Olympic venues are scheduled to open. No “Temperatures in Athens during the Games tickets will be available from April 16 to will reach 40 degrees and protecting our ath- June 1, when seat assignment is carried Bankstown: 6-12 East Terrace 02 9709-6908 letes from the hot sun is a high priority,” out. Blacktown: 47-49 Balmoral Street 02 9621-5311 Coates said. Tickets for swimming, tennis, shooting, Belmore: Cnr Isabel &Cecilia Street 02 9789-1659 “This is a very important and timely spon- triathlon, rhythmic gymnastics and sailing Crows Nest: 49-59 Holterman Street 02 9436-1957 sorship agreement which will ensure our team are almost sold out. Gymea: 806-808 The Kingsway 02 9526-6577 performs at their best in Athens.” But tickets were available on the 500-to- Kingsford: 72-76 Gardeners Road 02 9663-5147 Hamilton has supplied Australian athletes 900-euro range for the opening and closing Kogarah: 16-20 Belgrave Street 02 9529-5049 with sunscreen since the Los Angeles ceremonies. Redfern: 242 Cleveland Street 02 9698-5066 Olympics in 1984. AFP AAP APRIL 2004 The Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 15/33

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DID YOU KNOW? The first mention of soap was on Sumer- ian clay tablets dating about 2,500 BC. The soap was made of water, alkali and Travel cassia oil. The Acropolis The number one destination for tourists to Greece! architects Kallikrates and Iktinos as the home hood of Kolonaki, with the Hilton and the of the giant statue of Athena. It took 15 years Athens Tower at Ambelokipi in the distance. to build and was completed in 438 BC and is Manolis Glezos probably the most recognizable structure in the and Apostolis San- world next to the golden arches of McDon- tas were the two alds. From a temple it became a church, a young heroes who mosque and finally as a storage facility for tore down the Nazi Turkish gunpowder. flag flying from the In 1687 the Venetians bombarded it from Acropolis in 1941 below. A cannon ball hit the gun powder and during the German blew it up. occupation. It is of particular interest because these names are known not only by Greeks, What would a visit to Greece be without but by many Europeans, because this act of going to the Acropolis? You can take a tour or The Parthenon and other main buildings on courage and resistance to Nazi oppression was wander up there yourself but during the sum- the Acropolis were built by Pericles in the fifth an inspiration to all subjected people. I looked mer, whatever you do, unless it is overcast, go century BC as a monument to the cultural and for their names in every history book I could early in the day. political achievements of the inhabitants of find. But it wasn’t until I went up to the Acrop- It can get very hot up there and gasping for Athens. The term ‘acropolis’ means upper city olis and found this plaque that I knew who breath can take away from your ability to mar- and many of the city states of ancient Greece they were. vel at the greatest of all archaeological sites. are built around an acropolis where the inhab- Below the Acropolis After climbing the steps you are at the itants can go as a place of refuge in times of is the theatre of Herod entrance, or the Propylaea, which was com- invasion. It’s for this reason that the most Atticus built by the pleted in 432. sacred buildings are usually on the Acropolis. Romans in 161 AD It’s the safest, most secure place in town. As and still used today little as 150 years ago there were still A question in my mind is why not rebuild the for classical concerts, dwellings on the Acropolis. Parthenon to its former glory? It is not as if the ballet, performances The best time to go up there is the spring destruction of it is sacred history that must be of high cultural value where even this stone mountain is not immune preserved. In fact the 300 years since the and Yanni. Further on is the Theatre of explosion is a relatively short time-span in the Dionysous, the first stone theater and home to history of the building. Much of the Parthenon Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides and Aristo- has been taken apart and put back together phanes. It was rebuilt around 342 BC by Lyk- with pieces being replaced or clamped to rem- ourgos and then enlarged by the Romans to be edy the wear and tear of centuries, in particu- used for gladiator fights. lar the last 20 or so years of air pollution. Below the Acropolis is the rock of Areios As it stands now, though, it is a tribute to the Pagos. The steps are very slippery so be care- glorious past and the achievement of the ful as you climb them, but once you do you Ancient Athenians. It is also at the same time won’t want to come down (unless it is 100 a reminder that whatever is good in man is degrees). You have a great view of the Agora, eventually overcome by ignorance, war and a the Plaka, Monastiriki, Omonia and much of hunger for domination. I say rebuild the entire Athens. Great place to watch the sunset. Or Acropolis as an inspiration that whatever is come up at night with a bottle of wine and to the proliferation of grass and wildflowers wrong with the world can be righted (until your true love, and watch the lights of the city. which seem to burst from every crack. some idiot blows it up again). Afterwards, continue back around the Acropo- You can see the lis and down the hill into the Ancient Agora The Erecthion sits on the most sacred site of Plaka beneath you, below. Part of it is free and you can go through Constructed in 432 just before the outbreak the Acropolis where Poseidon and Athena had the temple of it to get back to Adrianou Street, or you can of the Peloponnesian wars the main architect their contest over who would be the Patron of Olympian Zeus and pay the entrance fee and walk the streets of was Mnesicles, a colleague of Phidias. the city. Poseidon thrust his trident into the the Olympic stadium ancient Athens. If you decide to hang out for a To your left is the Pinacotheca and a Hel- rock and a spring burst forth, while Athena nestled in a pine cov- while in the ancient Agora take a look at the lenistic pedestal and on the right the tiny tem- touched the ground with a spear and an olive ered hill, an island of rebuilt Stoa of Attalos, now a museum which ple to Nike Athena or the Athena of Victory tree grew. Athena was declared the victor and green in a sea of con- features many of the everyday items found in which commemorates the Athenians’ victory the great city of Athens was named for her crete. the area. The small temple known as the This- over the Persians. while Poseidon was given a small village in Or look to your left sion was built in 449 BC and is virtually intact. Supposedly this is one of the two places Syros after it was discovered he had merely at Mount Lycavettos rising from the neighbor- www.greece.gr thought to be where King Aegeus threw him- ruptured a water main (not really). self into the sea because he thought his son The building itself contains the porch of the Theseus had been killed by the Minotaur. maidens or Caryatids which are now copies; four originals have been placed in the Acropo- The Impressionists Printing lis museum, hopefully to be reunited with a Printing & Publishers fifth taken from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin and put in the British Museum more than a A I M We offer complete print services century ago. E T W O Specialising in Artwork & Design Stationery & Invitations ip 4 Colour brochures Flyers & Posters Menu & Menu Covers But if this is the point he chose to jump into Booklets the Aegean then how good a king could he Docket/Invoice books P L E 117100 have been? The sea is miles away! 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By Imogen Coward The Mediterranean that calls for tomato. Although these are okay porcinis can be stored for up to 1 year in a if there’s no alternative, I’m not a great fan as cool, dry, dark place or (if you want to pre- It’s Saturday afternoon and friends from Mediterranean cuisine is a vast topic. Each the tomatoes are often marinated in canola oil serve the flavour better), in the freezer. interstate have just called to say they’ll be country from Greece to Spain, and each geo- that leaves a lot to be desired, taste wise. When first taken from the packet porcinis in town that evening. You have a bit of a graphic region, has it’s own unique style. Did On the other hand, greengrocers often sell have a doubt-inducing, earthiness bordering reputation as a good cook and would real- you know, for example, that dried pasta made plain sun-dried tomatoes which will keep in a on fertiliser-ish aroma. Don’t let this put you ly like to treat them to a memorable from semolina, salt and water is a feature of cool dark cupboard for 6 months. Tough, off though as they really are delicious. To use homemade dinner but the fridge contains Southern Italian cooking while egg enriched unappealing and rather leathery in appearance, the mushrooms, first soak them in boiling only rather mundane items and what fresh pasta, made popular in Australia by chefs they’re are virtually inedible in their basic water for around 20 minutes. Drain them and with housework and everything else such as Jamie Oliver, belongs to Northern form (unless of course you’re willing to spend use the same way as fresh mushrooms (they’re there’s no time to go on a culinary shop- Italy. half an hour chewing them!). fantastic sauteed in butter) or use them to com- ping spree. Olives: Olive oil and olives are probably the The tomatoes need to be soaked for 5-10 min- pliment the flavour of fresh mushrooms. Don’t most famous and widespread essential ingre- utes in boiling hot water (until they’re reason- throw away the porcini infused water. It’s Do you: (a) decide to take them out to dinner dients in Mediterranean cuisine. Olives must ably soft) and then squeeze out the excess excellent for sauces and cream of mushroom instead; (b) like Mother Hubbard before you, be cured by pickling in brine or by dry curing water. From this point they can either be soup. go to the cupboard only to find it bare; or (c) with salt before they can be eaten. Once cured, chopped and used much like ordinary toma- Be sure to buy a reputable brand of dried go to your well prepared pantry for the meal olives may be stored in a cool, dark place for 1 toes (in sauces etc.) or you can layer them in a porcini such as Nespoli Funghi from Berg- transforming, culinary genie in the bottle? year if they’re preserved in their brine, or up to jar and cover completely with olive oil to pre- amo, Italy as lower quality brands sometimes Most styles of cooking feature a range of 3 months if they’re marinated. serve them for up to 4 months (the preserving mix in other, cheaper mushrooms. Dried essential ingredients which lend a characteris- Olives, although now popular in Australia, oil acquires a delicious tomato flavour, perfect porcinis are somewhat expensive, costing tic flavour to the cuisine. Can you imagine are a recent addition to the country’s diet. As a for cooking). Like most dried foods, the around $12 for 50g. However, a little goes a Italian cuisine without tomatoes (fresh, dried result, uninformed shop-keepers often don’t flavour of sun-dried tomatoes is very intense long way and five or six 20 cent sized pieces or semi-dried and preserved in oil), Indian cui- know how to handle them. To stop olives from and you’ll need far less, gram for gram, than of porcini will easily flavour two large field sine without curry, or perhaps Asian cuisine going off they need to be protected from the fresh tomatoes. mushrooms. without soy sauce?, The mind boggles, air, either by being kept in brine or coated in Porcini Mushroom: Boletus edulis or the Tips for storing and buying preserved although, believe it or not, there was a time oil. Don’t buy olives that are displayed/stored porcini mushroom (pronounced por-chee- ingredients: Be sure to store ingredients in a when the tomato was unknown in Italy! out of their brine or without a coating of oil. If nee), is hailed by Italians as the king of mush- cool, dry, dark place and always observe the Many essential ingredients exist in a pre- you buy olives that are simply coated in oil it rooms (much to the disgust of the French who, use-by date. If a preserved food smells or served or semi-preserved form and, if you is better to store them in the fridge. surprise surprise, regard their morel as the appears to have gone off before its use-by date, stock your pantry carefully, you can be pre- Olives may be eaten ‘as is’ for mezzedes (or superior mushroom). don’t use it. If you can, return it to the store pared for almost any culinary scenario. Leav- appetisers). Finely sliced and added during After putting up for years with bland culti- where it was purchased. Preserving techniques ing aside international staples such as rice, cooking, they are also fantastic in tomato vated mushrooms whose nearest relative, taste are not foolproof and it’s better to waste a few pasta and beans, over the next few months based pasta sauces and minced meat cooked wise, is the cardboard box, it is a sheer delight dollars than risk becoming sick. Last but not we’ll explore a few key ingredients from a with onion, garlic and tomatoes. to find an easy way of making mushrooms least, always buy high quality produce from a range of cuisines including Mediterranean, Sun-dried Tomatoes: Many supermarkets taste like mushrooms. Imported from Italy, reputable store. Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian. currently sell marinated sun-dried tomatoes, dried porcini mushrooms are sold in Australia ready to use as antipasto or to add to any dish by some delicatessens and greengrocers. Dried Wine Review By Imogen Coward

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Bubka, Crooks tour OAKA Karamanlis guarantees The chairman of the IOC athletes’ com- mission, pole vault legend Sergey Bubka, as well as commission member Charmaine Games’ success, security Crooks, expressed their satisfaction with ''We are 'doomed' to succeed… ''The Olympic Games were 2004 Olympic venues and infrastructures Greece guarantees secure and still are a major opportunity this week, following a tour of several facil- Games,'' Prime Minister Costas to forget for a while all that ities. Karamanlis stressed in his first divides us, to emphasise the The pair visited Athens for a few days to interview focusing directly on many and great things that unite participate in the International Olympic the Athens 2004 Olympic Games us. Consequently, during the Committee session and general assembly of “homecoming”. Opening Ceremony, I shall feel some 200 National Olympic Committees precisely what I believe the bil- from around the world. The interview appeared in the lions of viewers will also be feel- They were also photographed for the latest edition of the ''Athens.04'' ing: Awe and satisfaction for the ATHENS.04 magazine, ATHOC’s official quarterly magazine, published Games' return to the land of their magazine. by the Athens 2004 Organising birth; joy over the great celebra- “It is a great moment for the Olympic Committee (ATHOC). tion of the peoples, cultures and Movement to see the Games return to their Karamanlis, who retained the sport; responsibility to preserve, birthplace … It is a great and historic culture ministry portfolio to to the degree possible, the moment for Greece,” the Ukrainian cham- underscore the high priority his Olympic spirit, the spirit of pion said. New Democracy government peace and fraternity, of noble Both Bubka and Crooks spoke to the places on the Games, said that competition, even after the ATHENS.04 magazine, where they with four months to go before Games,'' the 48-year-old Kara- expressed their hope that the atmosphere of the opening of the Games, ''we manlis, Greece’s youngest prime Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis Greece will be a source of inspiration to ath- are moving within asphyxiating minister, underlined. letes, driving them to achieve records. timetables'', adding that ''not one He added that ''as a Greek, Olympia on March 25, Kara- terrorist attacks and threats, the day, not one hour, must be lost these Games will have, for me, a manlis said the Olympic relay prime minister categorically Ex-ministers praise before the commencement of the special symbolism. With the symbolised ''the creation of a stressed that the top priority of progress at OAKA Games … we must meet the Olympic and Paralympic global chain of people founded Olympic preparations was to commitments we have undertak- Games, our country will show- on the Olympic Ideals,'' adding fully ensure the security of the en vis-a-vis the Olympic fami- case its modern face to the that it was everyone's big country, athletes and visitors. A trio of the previous government’s top ly''. world, the great emphasis we responsibility that the flame illu- 'We are not groping about in officials for Olympic preparations toured Asked about what his thoughts place on culture as a means of minates the entire planet. the dark. We are continuing to the main Athens Olympic Stadium’s and sentiments will be at the bridging our differences...'' Regarding progress in the build on what we took over. We (OAKA) worksites this week, where they time when billions of people Asked, on a more personal Olympic projects and infrastruc- are cooperating closely with for- expressed satisfaction with the rate of throughout the world will be note, what event he would tures, Karamanlis explained that eign countries that have the progress. watching the actual Opening choose to take part in if he had ''four months ahead of the experience as well as the neces- Former culture minister Evangelos Veni- Ceremony on Aug. 13 from their the ability, the Greek prime min- Games, we are moving within sary know-how. It is a fact that, zelos, former deputy minister Nassos television sets, Karamanlis said: ister said he would choose a asphyxiating timetables''. in the present environment, Alevras as well as the culture ministry’s ex- ''I deeply believe that the mag- position on the coaching staff of Commenting on an observa- international cooperation is nec- general secretary for the Games, Costas nificence of the Olympic spirit the Olympic soccer team. tion that the Athens Games are essary, coordination of actions Kartalis, were accompanied by the latter’s lies in the fact that it unites us all Questioned on his sentiments being organised amidst a turbu- and activities, so as to send the successor, Spyros Capralos, who resigned in a common, humanity-wide at the official Olympic torch- lent international environment message that Greece guarantees as executive director with ATHOC to move ideal''. lighting ceremony in ancient and the fear created by recent secure Games''. to the culture ministry under the new Kara- manlis government. Venizelos noted that OAKA’s image had Athletes village safe Projects surge towards radically changed, whereas progress for the roof over the stadium creates a certainty that and superior: Coates completion despite it will be ready on time. He nevertheless warned that constant supervision and pres- Australian Olympic Committee phones. budget-overrun concerns sure on the contractors was necessary. president John Coates said the The Centennial Olympic Park best athletes village ever should blast, which killed one person and The crucial issue of 2004-related budget overruns dominated a high- be the safest place on earth from injured 100 others, occurred about ranking inter-ministerial meeting between the government and Athens In brief… terrorist attack during the games 1.30am local time and Coates said organisers (ATHOC) recently, with top ministers citing increased costs but the team boss could not guar- it wasn't until 7am that all the Aus- for a variety of projects and infrastructure works. *** The agent of former soccer great Diego Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis chaired the meeting. Maradona confirmed this week that his antee anybody's safety in Athens. tralian athletes were accounted Greece is spending $A1 billion for. Although the issue of keeping costs down was high on the agenda, client had received an invitation to partici- participants nevertheless promised that a bevy of pending projects pate in the Opening Ceremony for the on security, compared to $A300 Coates said that if necessary ath- million spent in Sydney, and has letes would be advised not to go would be ready on time for the upcoming Games, the much anticipat- Athens 2004 Games. ed Olympic “homecoming”. “We’re not saying that he will light the help from agencies such as into the city in Athens. NATO. Three unarmed security person- Transport Minister Mihalis Liapis affirmed that the new tram and altar at the Olympic Stadium, like suburban rail-line networks would be ready “exactly on time”, while Mohamed Ali did in Atlanta, but he will "We think that they are doing nel will accompany the team com- everything possible and I don't pared to the one who went to the both Public Works Minister George Souflias and Public Order Minis- certainly run as a torch-bearer, possibly ter George Voulgarakis expressed confidence in the pace of prepara- accompanied by children. He would like think you can guarantee the safety 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt of anyone in cities around the Lake City. tions assigned to each ministry. that very much,” agent Eric Manasse was On his part, National Economy Minister George Alogoskoufis said quoted as saying. The 42-year-old world at the moment," Coates told Olympic organisers have sched- the Seven network. uled a security conference for all the new culture ministry’s “point man” for the Games, one-time Maradona has been shuttling back and ATHOC executive director Spyros Capralos, would first verify forth from Cuba to Argentina in recent "You would like to think that nations in Greece in May. Mean- things like the Olympic village while, despite concerns over traf- requests from various ministries before “passing the bill” on to Trea- years. He will reportedly visit Athens prior sury. to the Games in August. would be the safest place in the fic congestion and the timely world at the time of the games, completion of event venues, “We’re determined not to cut corners in the quality of the entire pro- you'd think that venues would be Coates heaped praise on the ath- ject, which is necessary so that Athens and Greece are presented to the *** The health ministry will hire 299 peo- world under the conditions we set when we assumed the hosting of the ple in early May as staff for new ambu- (too). But the problem will be letes' village. some of the soft target around the "I've been to them all since Mon- Games”, Athens 2004 Organising Committee (ATHOC) President lances ordered to meet the needs of the Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki said in post-meeting statements. summer Olympic Games. Health Minister town, nightclubs, bars, those sort treal and this is the best, including of things." ours (Sydney) that I've seen," The new government’s volition and Karamanlis’ determination to Nikitas Kaklamanis, one of the country’s meet deadlines and overcome obstacles, among others, was cited by top radiologists, said this week that the first Desperate to avoid a repeat of the Coates said. Three to four storey panic and confusion that followed buildings with spacious rooms, the ATHOC chief as the deciding factor in the recent surge of progress. ambulances were already processed for Asked about the cost for Greek taxpayers, the high-profile ATHOC customs clearance, while the hiring of the bomb blast at the 1996 Atlanta lifts, independent air-conditioning Games, Coates said every Aus- control, a recreational gym and an president referred to the massive infrastructure left over for post- another 1,326 people, mainly nursing staff, Games use, as well as valuable training and know-how that thousands was being accelerated as well. tralian competitor will be con- Olympic size pool were all tactable via SMS on mobile tele- impressive aspects. of staff-members involved with preparations are gaining.

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Natassa Theodoridou Home flame warms Panathenaic stadium volunteers for ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games Over 35,000 people braved chilling winds to welcome the Olympic Flame into the During her visit to the Organising Com- stadium where the Games were first mittee for the Olympic Games, the famous revived in 1896. Thankfully, the event had performer Natassa Theodoridou announced none of the chaos which accompanied the her decision to be a volunteer at the Athens flame's March 25 lighting in ancient Paralympic Games. Olympia During her meeting with volunteers Gen- eral Manager, D. Tziras, and Paralympics JOHN HADOULIS General Manager, I. Karyofylli, Natassa Theodoridou, a candidate volunteer since Athenians got their first sense that 'their' January 2004, confirmed her intention to Olympics are coming home on March 31, contribute significantly to the Athens Para- when thousands attended a ceremony to wel- lympic Games as a volunteer and as an come the Olympic Flame to the city's historic artist and added that she would fully be at Panathenaic stadium, site of the Games' the disposal of the Organising Committee. modern revival in 1896. The discussion during the meeting, which Fears that a 24-hour transport strike would was held for briefing purposes, concerned a deter crowds proved unfounded, as over first framework of collaboration focusing 17,000 spectators braved chilling winds to on actions aimed at supporting the Para- watch the hourlong ceremony. Shortly lympic Games, the world's second most before 8pm, Sydney Games silver sprint important sporting event. medallist Katerina Thanou ran into the stadi- Mrs Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki um with the Olympic torch, closely followed ATHENS 2004 secures direct by youths bearing the flags of over 200 emotional." may well have been an allusion to the access to Olympic Games nations participating in the Olympics. The Olympic Flame on June 4 will depart Olympic Truce - the ancient Games' ban on "Citizens of the world, as the Olympic for Sydney, the first stop of an international all hostilities, which Greece has sought to INFO2004 system Flame enters this venerable stadium, Athens tour that includes all prior Olympic cities revive in 2004 - but spectators had to guess, via mobile phones sends you a message of peace," said Athens and, for the first time, all five continents. It as the brochures handed out had no pertinent Mayor Dora Bakoyannis. "As this light will return to Greece from Cyprus in July for information. The 2004 Olympic Games will be the first moves past the Acropolis, through our a final home leg, culminating at Athens' Minutes after the ceremony had ended, Games ever to offer access via mobile ancient city, let it absorb all those values that Olympic Stadium on August 13 to spark the spectators were told to clear the slopes phones to the Internet and to the informa- first appeared here and have brought enlight- Games' opening ceremony. around the ancient stadium as the site would tion system of the Games. ATHENS 2004 is enment to the whole world for more than 25 be closing. With police blocking the nearest the first Organising Committee to apply centuries." Choreography exit through Olympia's archaeological site, high technology for using wireless data "From torch to torch, from torchbearer to and chaos at Olympia the crowd took the next best option - a small communication services. torchbearer, from village to village... the ladder used by television crews - and was Using COSMOTE network and the GPRS flame warmed the hearts of those who had Thankfully, the March 31 event had none promptly bottle-necked. Police instructions connection facility, Olympic mobile tele- the joy and honour to carry it," said Athens of the organisational problems that plagued to spectators to use a wider exit 250 metres phony users will be able to access all data 2004 organising committee (ATHOC) presi- the March 25 flame-lighting ceremony in away were widely ignored. available on the INFO2004 information dent Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki. "The ancient Olympia. Though the Olympia cere- system or receive special messages enthusiasm wherever the flame passed was mony was artistically flawless, organisation- Police overwhelmed addressed to all users or to particular user unique... People of all ages came out of their al glitches before and after the event raised groups. homes to welcome it...[and] these images concerns as to the Greek authorities' ability Signs that the police themselves were over- For instance, through INFO2004, Olym- travelled the world via satellite." to handle large crowds. whelmed by the sheer numbers that turned pic Family members can receive in real The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC), up for the ceremony - estimated by organis- time information on Games results, records Second time lucky which has been responsible for organising ers at around 30,000 - were apparent from and medals, together with news of any over a dozen flame-lighting ceremonies in the morning of the ceremony. Tired of wait- developments of their interest. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki's own first con- ancient Olympia for the Games, was fortu- ing for security frisks at the end of a long Using their mobile phones, users will also tact with the Athens Flame was less than pro- nate at first. In contrast to past efforts in 2000 queue, a large group reportedly forced its have access to Games competition sched- pitious - the fire went out as she reached for and 2002, when 'practice flames' from previ- way through the main police checkpoint. ules, data and photos of the Venues, athletes the torch and had to be rekindled from a spe- ous days were used in ceremonies for the Alpha television channel showed images of CV's, even summaries of the rules of each cial cauldron. To the superstitious, this was Sydney and Salt Lake City Games because people splashing through a nearby stream - sport, all of them enhancing the users' an additional ill omen after the first torch- of cloudy skies, the priestesses on March 25 some falling in face-first - to dodge inspec- enjoyment of the events that they will be bearer, javelin champion Costas Gatsioudis, succeeded in coaxing fire out of a convex tion. watching. also had trouble lighting his torch during the sun lens on the required day. At the other end of the field, reporters rush- Via their mobile phones, members of the March 25 flame-lighting ceremony at The ceremony itself was also the most ing to cover the ceremony bickered with offi- Olympic Family for whom access to the ancient Olympia. The crowd appeared to impressive in recent years. The priestesses - cers who had only been given one x-ray information networks will have been take the mishap in stride, but several people played by actresses in flowing robes - machine to screen hundreds of bags. Earlier secured (VIPs, workforce, representatives got up to leave when the speeches started. emerged above the ancient Olympia stadium on, the group of journalists had risked miss- of National Delegations and Media repre- "We've just watched history being made," enveloped in a single long crimson sheet. ing the start of the ceremony when buses sentatives), will be able to receive SMS said a visiting American athlete. "It was very, One by one, each priestess broke from the provided by the HOC got lost on the way to messages with announcements or urgent very cool." "It was cold, but the flame was fold waving banners of white, blue and red, Olympia. notifications, immediately and securely. worth it," another spectator said. "It was very casting the crimson sheet upon the ground. It ATHENS NEWS , 02/04/2004 It is estimated that approximately 12,500 people (1,000 VIPs, 4,000 customers and 7,500 workforce) will be able to access this information system. ATHENS 2004 has twice as many The ATHENS 2004 Technology Division in collaboration with CosmOTE and Sam- candidate Volunteers as Sydney sung -Grand National Sponsor and World- wide Olympic Partner, respectively- are The number of Official Volunteer applica- r Of the Volunteers who are living whom an Offer of Voluntary Employment has exploiting ultra-modern wireless communi- tions for the Games reached 150,360 at the abroad (34.6% of the total), 25.15% been made already exceeds 15,000 – as cations technologies, in conjunction with end of February, six months ahead of the are foreigners and 9.45% are Greeks ATHENS 2004 is proceeding with the Pro- the potential offered by the Games manage- Olympic Games. abroad. gramme at a fast pace. ment system, which can be easily adapted To meet the requirements of the 2004 Of the candidate Volunteers who live in to solutions based on wireless communica- Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Greece: According to the applications submitted, the tions technologies, put into action after it Athens, some 45,000 and 15,000 Volunteers r 60.14% live in Attica availability of candidate Volunteers in terms of has been ensured that mobile telephony ser- will be needed respectively. r 10.64% live in Thessaloniki working days is as follows: vices can be used to provide secure wireless The breakdown of 150,000 candidate Vol- r 3.52% live in the Prefecture of Achaia r For more than 15 days: 68% transmission and handling of data. unteer applications is as follows: r 2.95% in the Prefecture of Heraklio r For 10 to 15 days: 18% This collaboration aims to provide state- r 65.4% of candidate Volunteers r 2.08% in the Prefecture of Magnisia r For 5 to 10 days: 14% of-the-art mobile telephony services cou- live in Greece, and 34.6% live r 20.67% live in the other Prefectures r 56% of candidate volunteers are women pled with value added wireless Internet ser- abroad. The number of candidate Volunteers to and 44% are men. vices.

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When Athens won the right to stage the ble of doing the same.” “Our coaches shad- ing lobby but he says the secret of his suc- 2004 Olympics many questioned if Spain won 22 medals owed the world’s best, cess is not steroids. there would be enough golden Greeks when Barcelona hosted saw them in action, He says the turning point came a decade mounting the podium to justify their the Games, up from just learnt new techniques ago in Florida when he met fellow Greek host status. four at the previous and brought them Christos Iakovou, the man who would later Olympics. At the Seoul home.We now have turn the national weightlifting team into Juan Antonio Samaranch, then Interna- Games, hosts South some of the best coach- world beaters. tional Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Korea increased their es in the world,” he “Christos is one of the best strength and voiced concerns that a lack of top competi- haul to 33 after taking said. conditioning coaches in the world, he won tors might result in the homecoming Games 19 in Los Angeles four The most effective, the world championships, took world failing to capture the imagination of the years earlier. and controversial, of records and Olympics. We arrived at com- local crowd. Former Papatollis the new generation of mon conclusions over strength training,” Seven years on, those doubts have been protege and high jump trainers is Christos said Tzekos. banished. medallist at Atlanta, Tzekos. Between them they delivered more than For the best part of a century the only time Niki Bakoyianni, said His stable of sprinters half of Greece’s Sydney medal haul. the Greek national anthem was heard at the today’s champions includes 100m Euro- The giant Iakovou and his stable of lifters Olympics was at the opening and closing were riding a wave of pean champion and know that they, more than anyone, will carry ceremonies. public funding and Olympic silver medal- Greek expectations. Greece won a miserly three golds in track sponsorship that was list Katerina Thanou But three-times Olympic champions and field between the Athens 1896 revival only a trickle a decade and Kederis, holder of Akakios Khakiasvili and Pyrros Dimas are and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. ago. a unique treble of now 33 and 35 respectively. A single bronze medal in Seoul in 1988 “In theory the funding Olympic, world and “They are not what they once were and if became a gold at Barcelona four years later, was always there, but European titles at 200 it were not for Athens they would have in practice you could Will Pyrros Dimas rise to the occa- metres. retired,” said Iakovou. before an eight-medal haul at Atlanta. sion and win Gold for Greece? Then Greece took 150 athletes to Sydney wait six months for a Tzekos says he has Papatollis said Greek fans would be sur- in 2000 and returned with 14 medals. pair of shoes,” she said. fused the techniques of prised. With four months to go, there is unprece- Shoes are no longer a problem. the former Soviet bloc with the American “Our athletics team won’t suddenly win dented optimism in the birthplace of the Greece’s sports federations receive more work ethic. eight medals, neither will the weightlifters Olympics, which will be the smallest nation than 13 million euros annually from the gov- “The good thing about Greece is that it’s get 10. The medals will come from judo, to host the Summer Games since Finland in ernment, while a single sponsorship deal for in the middle of two different sports cul- taekwondo, sailing maybe, even basket- 1952. the track and field team with a telecommu- tures. There is the Eastern bloc, which did a ball.” The man charged with delivering medals nications company netted more than $3 mil- lot of research, and the US culture which is The inspirational performance of taek- is former high jumper and current head lion. a lot of training and a lot to do with nutrition wondo champion Michalis Moroutsos at the coach of the Greek Olympic team, Odysseas Individual athletes are in demand for and dieticians.” last Olympics spawned thousands of martial Papatollis. endorsements and sprint king Kostas “I combined this knowledge and made arts enthusiasts across Greece. “We have a difficult mission...but I think Kederis even has a high-speed ferry named something new,” he said. Sailing seems certain to provide domes- we’ll do it,” he told Reuters. after him. After one year under the workaholic nutri- tic winners with 470-class duo Sofia “I think we’ll get at least 20 medals. The Papatollis said a shift in attitude that came tionist, Kederis went from a journeyman Bekatorou and Emilia Tsoulfa heavy host city almost always doubles their medal with winning the bid in 1997 had helped 400-metre runner to Olympic champion. favourites after World Cup success. tally from previous Games and we are capa- Greece’s sporting fortunes. Tzekos has been a target for the anti-dop- Reuters