MELBOURNE - Next month's Annual General Meeting of the Croatian Community Credit Union (CCCU) is expected to be a volatile one following revelations that the directors of the community based financial institution are exploring merger options with the Ukrainian community's credit union.

The Melbourne Knights Soccer Club and Melbourne Croatia Social Club have for many years been known as one and the same. ''Soccer club, social club... it's all the same thing'', seems to have been the general consensus regarding the identity of both of these entities, based at Somers Street in the western Melbourne suburb of North Sunshine.

MELBOURNE - A former female vocalist of a popular Melbourne Croatian covers band is set to make a long awaited comeback with the group, possibly as early as next month.

The following is the first of a three-part series which discusses how some in the European Union are pressuring for a new Balkan Union, or ''Third Yugoslavia'', through the integration of unjust Serbian geopolitical demands in Croatia.....

On Thursday, the 5th of October, I boarded a flight at Adelaide Airport with my Miss Croatia Adelaide Amateurs buddy, Melisa Mehicic, and various other friends and players from our Adelaide Croatia first team squad, bound for Sydney and the 32nd annual Australian Croatian Soccer Tournament.