The Union of Greek American Travel Agents (GATA) is expressing concerns over the fate of approximately 1500 Olympic Airlines passengers who have return tickets dated after September 30th, the date the airline is set to conduct its final flights.

The state government of Victoria is placing under her auspices the Pan-Hellenic Athletic and Cultural Games being organized by the Council for Hellenes Abroad (SAE) Oceania in Melbourne in November and in addition will donate the sum of $35,000 to assist the event.

Thirty two businesses from Cyprus will participate at this years International Food and Beverage Exhibit that will take place in Sydney from 7-10 September. The city will be visited by representatives of Cypriot businesses in order to promote their productions and to seek possible importers for the Cypriot products.

Next Sunday, the Greek Club of Canberra will screen a documentary about world renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in the hall of its premises. The producer of the movie is Perth-based Greek-Australian Eleni Evangelinou, who – apart from her lengthy on-camera interview with Theodorakis – has had access to some rare objects from his personal archive.

Dr. Olga Sarantopoulos, Secretary of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) has visited the historic villages of Fikardou and Vavatsinia in Cyprus.