A.H.E.P.A. was first established in Scone, NSW., in 1935.

The majority of the Australian Greeks who established AHEPA were Kytherians.

It was modelled on the American H.E.P.A. which had been set up in 1922.

The organisation offered a structured means for keeping Greeks in contact with Greeks throughout the country.

For more information see,

Gillian Bottomley. After the Odyssey: A Study of Greek Australians. Queensland University Press, St Lucia. 1979. pp. 62-63.

Tsounis, M.P. The history of Australia's Greeks: some signposts and issues, in, Kapardis and Tamis (eds), Afstraliotes Hellenes. pp. 62-64.

Photograph of one of the two original A.H.E.P.A. meetings with numerous (a majority) Kytherians in attendance.