Migration history
From Tyranny to Freedom:Dutch children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School WA, 1945-1946
This book is reproduced here with permission. Pictures of Fairbridge Farm School
Military and Political History
The diamond mystery (WWII)
Republished with permission. Chapter five from the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf click here. See also: Dutch-Russian Ace Pilot Iwan Smirnoff (WWII) The Lost Dutch Diamonds on Carnot Beach, Western Australia
Maritime History
Aborigines and shipwrecks – the arrival of Australia’s first immigrants
Republished with permission. Chapter two from the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf click here. See also: First contact between the Dutch and the Aboriginal People
Maritime History
Anthropological analyses of human skeletal remains associated with the Batavia mutiny of 1629
Republished with permission. Chapter three of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf click here. See also: Dirk Drok and the discovery of the Batavia The Batavia and its many stories. Batavia research at Flinders University Archaeology
Maritime History
Dutch Maritime history in Australia from the Book ‘A Touch of Dutch’
Republished with permission. Section one from the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf click here. See also: Following the Dutch VOC Seafarers
Dutch Organisations
Anna Siebenhaar under government surveillance Perth ca 1900
Anna Siebenhaar, the older sister of Willem Siebenhaar, followed his brother from the Netherlands to Perth, Australia in the 1890s. In 1896 at the age of 42 she married Edgar Semmens at Coolgardie In 1908, Anna was appointed the Australasian representative of the ‘Het Algemeen Nederlandsch Verbond’ (the ANV or Read more…
Migration history
Search the Welcome Walls databases for immigrants.
Welcome Walls are monument dedicated to immigrants who have come to Australia and contributed to the nation’s development. It is a significant project aimed at acknowledging and celebrating the diverse heritage and stories of the millions of people who migrated to Australia from various parts of the world. They serve Read more…
Dutch Organisations
Boomerang Church Youth Club Perth
By: Jan Pritchard During the later Fifties and early Sixties, The Boomerang Youth Club was central to the social life of twenty or more teenagers. Most were working full time by the age of sixteen, and parents were strict, so that the weekly club night at a North Perth church Read more…
Migration history
The Hervormde Kerk in Perth
By: Jan Pritchard In Western Australia, recently arrived members of the Dutch Hervormde Kerk were most often affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. However, during the peak years of Dutch migration to WA 1952-1964, it was also usual for the Hervormde Kerk in the Netherlands to send Dutch clerics here to Read more…