PRESS RELEASE

7 October 2010


Suspect mass email condemns content of AMAC lecture

The so-called “Australia-Greece Advisory Council” has sent out a mass email condemning a lecture by Marcus Templar at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle as “highly provocative”.

The email went on to say that the so-called “AGAC” “disapproves when bilateral issues between Greece and its neighbouring countries are brought out on Australian Territory by Greek authorities and community organisations” and that “If Greece has an issue with the Republic of Macedonia then it should solve it like a model world citizen in direct bilateral talks with Skopje and not try to convince the world that there are "No Macedonians"”.

No record of the so-called “AGAC” is yielded in an ASIC company search and thus the organisation is not a registered entity. AMAC believes the so-called “ACAG” is a recently created internet façade, previously unheard of in the Greek-Australian community and thus should not be taken to represent the community in any way shape or form. AMAC believes it is very possible the so-called “AGAC” and its website (aus-greeceadvisorycouncil.org.au) is in fact not run by Greek-Australians at all.

In any case its claim’s about Marcus Templar’s lecture are without basis. Greek-Australian community organisations such as AMAC and independent persons such as Marcus Templar (as well as Professor Melville Jones) have as much right as any other person to comment on the naming dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The issue has been the subject of several UN Assembly debates and is of significant concern to the Greek-Australians and should be aired and open to full debate.



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