SAE President Stefanos P. Tamvakis visited the Greeks in Lebanon responding to an invitation by the president of the Greek Community in Beirut Panagiotis Andriotis.

The Pan-Pontian Federation of America in cooperation with the Pontic associations and the Federation of Hellenic Societies of NY organized a lecture a the Stathakeio Cultural Center in Astoria.

The Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund held its annual dinner dance which was attended by many outstanding personalities of the Greek-American community, politicians and persons from the art world.

South Australian State Labor minister, Michael Atkinson, has inflamed tensions between Turkey and Canberra about a "genocide" by accepting an invitation to address a 20,000-strong rally in Greece on the sensitive issue.

In an article in Australia's "The Age" newspaper entitled "Britain runs out of excuses for keeping Elgin Marbles" underlines that the opening of the New Acropolis Museum will minimize the British Museums argument that it is the best place to house the marbles that were removed from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin.