Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Expatriate Greeks Antonis Diamataris on Wednesday assured the President of the Melbourne Greek Community Vasilis Papastergiadis that the Greek state will make every effort to support Greeks throughout Australia, in a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis called negotiations with "institutions” “debilitating" in a message, at a meeting to show solidarity to the Greek government and the Greek people held Tuesday in Melbourne.