A warm, convivial atmosphere at Doltone House with Senior Italian Australian Community (SIAC) members, friends and live music saw more than 150 attendees.
On Sunday, December 7, great enthusiasm and a record attendance set the scene for the most eagerly awaited event of the year for the Italian community of Altona: The Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari.
The Veneto Club in Bulleen hosted the 2025 edition of the Bocce Slam on November 29 and 30, an event that has by now become a fixture on the Italo-Australian sporting calendar.
On Thursday, December 4, under the pleasant glow of an early Australian summer sunset, more than 2000 people—adults and children alike—gathered in the large courtyard of St Peter the Apostle Primary School in East Keilor.
During the Italian Business Awards Gala 2025, a remarkable announcement captured the attention and admiration of those present: a major exhibition is about to transport Melbourne into the heart of ancient Rome.
A border city shaped by centuries of trade and shifting sovereignties, Trieste was at the centre of one of the most complex migration stories of post-war Italy. It’s a chapter that profoundly changed the city’s identity, yet for decades remained overlooked or misunderstood.
From November 7 to December 23 this year, Co.As.It.’s Museo Italiano will host the European Union’s travelling exhibition ‘Inside Pompeii: Origins of a European Way of Life – Photographs by Luigi Spina’.
The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a major restoration of its glistening marble walls.
A Greek shipwreck dating back to between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, lying at a depth of six meters, has been almost completely uncovered off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo in Ispica, Sicily.
We are living in a time when people are paying increasing attention to what they eat, often rediscovering habits from not so long ago, when, for example, fresh bread was made at home every day.
When people talk about Prosecco in Australia, it’s impossible not to think of the King Valley in north-east Victoria, now widely considered the home of the sparkling wine outside its birthplace of Veneto.
If Rome wasn’t built in a day, the same can certainly be said for Calabria Family Wines. Now ranked among the country’s 20 most important wine producers, the company has spent 80 years building the solid foundations that support a successful business now run by its second and third generations.
In Italy, the role of the sommelier is now so established and widely recognised that it has become part of the country’s food and wine landscape, whereas in Australia it gained real traction only in more recent years.
In the solemn half-light of the Ghione Theatre, among white jackets gleaming like modern armour under the stage lights, the Federazione Italiana Cuochi (Italian Chefs’ Federation) presented one of its most prestigious honours: the Collegium Cocorum.
Chef italiano con tanta voglia di mettersi in gioco, uno tra i primi a Melbourne che, durante il periodo del Covid, ha anticipato un fenomeno che è sempre più in forte crescita: quello del "private chef".
Un’azienda a conduzione famigliare che, dal 1981, si occupa di installare rivestimenti esterni capaci di replicare l’aspetto tradizionale del legno, e che sono anche in grado di sopravvivere agli estremi climatici australiani.
