Robert Pikler’s career connects the musical life of the Netherlands East Indies with Australia’s post-war concert halls. A Hungarian musician who worked in the Dutch colony and survived Japanese internment, he subsequently became an influential Read more
A photograph of a young man overlooking Cronulla beach captures a moment in an Australian life that his family is still trying to reconstruct. The man is Wilhelmus Bernardus Rijks, also known as Bill Ryks. Read more
Information checked on 9 October 2026. For Dutch migrants in Australia, becoming an Australian citizen can raise a difficult question: will they retain their Dutch nationality? Australia permits dual citizenship, but Dutch law generally provides Read more