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Sir Arvi Parbo, an Estonian-Australian mining entrepreneur and a knight – obituary

By Silver Tambur and Sten Hankewitz / May 2, 2019 June 2, 2019 / 4 minutes of reading

Sir Arvi Parbo, one of Australia’s most well-known and recognised mining entrepreneurs, and probably the only knighted Estonian, died on 1 May at the age of 93 in Melbourne, Australia. The Australian newspaper, Financial Review, calls Parbo “one of corporate Australia’s most significant figures”. “Sir Arvi Parbo will be fondly …

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Australia opens its first pop-up embassy in Estonia

By Silver Tambur / April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018 / 3 minutes of reading

Australia is the latest of nations that has decided to test out a new concept of modern diplomacy – opening a pop-up embassy in the Estonian capital. This new concept started to evolve in 2016, when the Swiss ambassador to Denmark, Benedikt Wechsler, came up with an idea of the …

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Australia is joining the Tallinn-based NATO cyber defence centre

By Sten Hankewitz / April 23, 2018 April 23, 2018 / 2 minutes of reading

Australia has announced it is joining the Tallinn, Estonia-based NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. The centre said on Twitter that Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, announced the news at the opening of her country’s pop-up embassy in Tallinn. She joined the event from Australia via Skype. Australia becomes …

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Estonian ridesharing platform Taxify launches in Australia

By Estonian World / December 13, 2017 April 24, 2018 / 1 minute of reading

The Estonian ridesharing platform, Taxify, has launched in Sydney, Australia, with over four thousand drivers registered. “Sydney is a huge and vibrant city,” Markus Villig, the founder and CEO of Taxify, said in a statement. “We are confident that locals are looking for an alternative ride sharing option, and Taxify …

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Estonia opens an embassy in Australia

By Estonian World / March 2, 2016 April 24, 2018 / 3 minutes of reading

Estonia has finally opened an embassy in Australia, 25 years after regaining independence. The Estonian foreign minister, Marina Kaljurand, opened the embassy – the first in the region – in Canberra on 29 February. Cooperating with its mightier Nordic neighbour Finland, the Estonian embassy is located in a building that …

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Estonians taking on the world in Brisbane: where we are at and where we have come from

By Harry Ling / September 21, 2014 April 24, 2018 / 4 minutes of reading

Estonians are certainly making an impact on and their presence felt in Australia. The way in which Estonians integrate into an existing culture without forgetting their roots has made them welcome citizens in the “land down under”. Waves of Estonians have hit Australian shores with every recession and crisis in …

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Estonian communities around the world: keeping the flag flying in Sydney

By Triin Pehk / August 19, 2014 August 6, 2019 / 6 minutes of reading

Australia hosts the fifth largest Estonian community in the world. Among the Estonians currently living in Australia, the Sydney community is the liveliest one. The first Estonians settled in Australia in 1853, and the first Estonian society was established in Melbourne in 1914. During the course of the Second World …

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“Global Estonians” – senior speech pathologist Anna-Liisa Sutt (Brisbane, Australia)

By Estonian World / March 4, 2014 April 24, 2018 / 11 minutes of reading

Under our “Global Estonians” feature we talk to diverse people in different cities, countries, continents. Anna-Liisa Sutt is a senior speech pathologist at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Anna-Liisa, what made you leave Estonia and how did you end up in Australia? New Year’s Eve 1998 my dad received …

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Estonian folk costume stripes on Australian Aboriginal art

By Triin Pehk / May 5, 2013 April 24, 2018 / 4 minutes of reading

What do the world’s oldest continually living cultures, i.e. those of the Australian indigenous people and Estonians, have in common? At first glance not much, but at a closer look at their respective cultural history, we can surprisingly find many similarities. Although the recorded Aboriginal history traces back at least 50,000 years and the Estonian one …

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Leen and Siimon Rampe – Estonian film ambassadors in Australia

By Triin Pehk / February 10, 2013 April 24, 2018 / 4 minutes of reading

Leen Rampe (née Võrno) and Siimon Rampe are a wife-husband team passionate about Estonian film. They have run monthly film sessions called KiNO! nights at the Sydney Estonian Cultural House for over a year now and finished 2012 off with an Estonian Film Festival in Australia. Leen has a Master’s …

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