Governor General of Australia, David Hurley made many commendations, including the following:
Sotiria Liangis (AM) ACT
Sotiria Liangis has appeared in Neos Kosmos a number of times for her charity work. Embracing her new home, she arrived in Canberra nearly 60 years ago from Keratea, unable to speak English, after having just married her husband Angelo. Aged 19 at the time, she was full of energy and, like most Greek Australian migrants at the time, she worked hard, saved her money and created a new life.
The developer behind a number of commercial properties in Canberra, she was also the first Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year in 1995 and was offered an Order of Australia Medal in 1996 for “service to the Greek community, particularly the aged and through St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Canberra”. In 2001, she received a Centenary Medal for her help to the Greek community.