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SBS Video – Dutch Aussies in Houten 28-1-2019

Here is a telephone interview done in Australia by SBS Dutch with a Aussie family who shifted to The Netherlands for it’s modern cycling life. This is a YouTube video. After playing the video, press the return button to go back to the DACC Hub.

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 5 yearsSeptember 9, 2021 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

SBS Video – Interview met Paul Budde over NBN – 29-3-2011

The government says the NBN bills need to pass to allow the implementation of the NBN to continue on time. . Paul Budde, independent communication analyst says it has become increasingly evident that we need some serious clarification from the government as to what the NBN is all about. This Read more

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 5 yearsSeptember 9, 2021 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Petronella Wensing AOM, lace-maker and embroiderer

Petronella Jacoba Wensing (née Goderie) was born on January 22, 1924, in Teteringen, the Netherlands, as the fourteenth of seventeen children. In 1948, she married Michael Wensing, a skilled painter and signwriter. Facing post-war challenges in the Netherlands, the couple decided to migrate to Australia. They departed from Rotterdam aboard Read more

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 5 yearsSeptember 9, 2021 ago
News and Updates

Jeroen Weimar: Victorian public servant and Covid-19 commander

Jeroen Weimar was born in the Netherlands and raised in the UK, where he began his career in management consulting before migrating to Australia. Weimar’s professional life has been built on understanding and managing the movement of people and resolving logistical roadblocks. In Australia, he is best known as the Read more

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 5 yearsAugust 29, 2021 ago
DAAAG

Three Dutch Priests in South Australia – 1863

By Elisabeth (Elly) Anderson – October 2006 Whilst researching the early history of a mainly Irish-administered Catholic community in the Adelaide Hills some years ago I was intrigued to find that the first documented visit of a priest, back in the 19th century, had been by a Dutchman. Being Dutch-born Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 8, 2016 ago
DAAAG

Rene De Kok a Horticulurist in Western Australia

I was born 22/8/51 in Den Haag, Netherlands, where I studied horticulture being the fifth generation to do so. After my studies I travelled the world for approx. 6 years. During this period I worked in the offshore oil industry. In 1975 I married Magda van Boheemen. After we were Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 6, 2016 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Thea Bourne – artist and former DACC board member

When I was 4 years old, my parents decided to leave Holland and go to the Dutch East Indies.  That was in 1947.  My father had a Doctorate in Eastern Linguistics and had better employment opportunities there than in the Netherlands so soon after the War.  And so my parents Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 5, 2016 ago

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