Meeting with Australian Ambassador to Greece

It was a pleasure for us to meet with Her Excellency Alison Duncan, Australian Ambassador to Greece on 24 April 2025 in Athens. The Ambassador invited Vice President Kyriaco Nikias to the Embassy in Athens to discuss the work of the Society in promoting the history of Ithaca and Ithacans in Australia and in Greece. We also presented our recent publications to the Ambassador.

Ties between Ithaca and Australia extend at least to the 1850s, when both places were under British rule. Australians of Ithacan heritage have supported many cultural causes on the island, from archaeological digs in the 1930s to the recent work of the Ithacan Archive Fund.

We look forward to assisting the Ambassador in planning her visit to Ithaca in the near future, and to strengthen the cultural ties between Ithaca and Australia.

We were particularly delighted to see that the wonderful portrait of the much-loved Ithacan Bill Florence arriving in Australia in 1922 hanging in a corridor of the Embassy.