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Czechoslovak Club in Adelaide - 60 years
Sun, Nov 15 2009
The oldest Czech and Slovak community organization in Australia the Czechoslovak Club in Adelaide celebrated on Saturday 7th of November its 60 years of existence. More than 200 people took part at the celebration including the Czech Ambassador in Australia, Juraj Chmiel, SA Minister for Multicultural Affairs Michael Atkinson, leader of the opposition Isobel Redmond, Governor Hieu Van Le, Charles Stuart Mayor H. Anderson, Czech Chamber of Commerce President Dr. Zdenek Kotasek and many other guests.
Club's president Zdenek Jiranek in his speech highlighted the historical events which sparked the post war exodus and migration in 1948 and then 1968.
17 November 1989 - 20 years after
Sun, Nov 15 2009
Former student leader Igor Chaun, sociologist Jirina Siklova, singer Marta Kubisova whose song 'Modlitba' (Prayer) became anthem of the Velvet revolution and former President and playwright Vaclav Havel recall the events of 17th of November 1989.
Bohemia Land of Magical Music and Fairy Tales
Thu, Nov 12 2009
Cellist Ivana Snaidr from Melbourne on the upcoming musical and puppet fantasia organized by a well known puppeteer Lenka Muchova this Sunday at '72Erskine' in Sydney (by I. de Detrich)
Sri Lanka Asylum Seekers - impasse solution
Thu, Nov 12 2009
Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce offers a solution to the impasse between Kevin's Rudd government and 78 ethnic Tamils refusing to leave Australian customs ship Oceanic Viking moored at the Indonesian island of Bintan. (I. de Detrich)
17 November 1989 - 20 years after
Thu, Nov 12 2009
20 years after Czech students took to the streets on 17th of November 1989 - day which marks the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia - author and publicist Jaroslav Rudis ponders what was achieved: '..it was a total euphoria, where everything was possible, it was amazing. But then came the return to reality again...' (by Martina Vackova)
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