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Military and Political History

Dinner with Casey: Dutch divisions over West New Guinea – Some call it Treason.

Memories of a dinner party where diplomacy, commerce and principle collided (c. 1960).By P. R. Boele van Hensbroek, Brookfield, Brisbane, 1995 Abstract In this memoir, retired Dutch naval officer and migrant Pieter Robert (Robby) Boele van Hensbroek revisits one of the most striking episodes of his post-war life: a dinner Read more

By DACC, 1 weekSeptember 30, 2025 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Jenny Dodson – a tribute to Dutch heritage in Australian art

Australian artist Jenny Dodson, whose family background includes Dutch heritage, has created works that draw on the cultural imagery of the Netherlands. One of her notable pieces is Monochrome (2025): tribute to my Dutch heritage, a painting of a traditional Dutch windmill. In this work, Dodson uses a restrained palette Read more

By DACC, 1 weekSeptember 30, 2025 ago
Maritime History

Pieter Robert Boele van Hensbroek – From Dutch naval officer to Australian pioneer

Early life in Amsterdam Early life in the Netherlands Pieter Robert (Robby) Boele van Hensbroek was born in Amsterdam on 18 October 1920 to André Boele van Hensbroek and Jo Sluiter. He grew up with his sister Elsje in a close-knit family. His youth was marked both by joyful summers Read more

By DACC, 1 weekSeptember 30, 2025 ago
Military and Political History

Dutch participation in Melbourne’s Victory Parade, 1945

On 24 August 1945, just days after the end of the Second World War, Melbourne hosted a massive Victory in the Pacific parade. Tens of thousands of service personnel marched through the city in celebration, cheered on by vast crowds lining Swanston Street and Flinders Street. Among the international contingents Read more

By DACC, 2 weeksSeptember 28, 2025 ago
Netherlands East Indies - Australia History

New Farm receiving station, Brisbane: a Dutch post-war chapter

A wartime hub From September 1942 the United States Navy requisitioned land at New Farm and built the “New Farm Receiving Station” — a personnel and transit centre with barracks, messing, recreation, medical and postal facilities. It supported the burgeoning submarine and naval presence along Capricorn Wharf and nearby installations Read more

By DACC, 2 weeksSeptember 26, 2025 ago
Migration history

The Broekman family and the SS Zuiderkruis

In the spring of 1955, the Broekman family became part of the great wave of postwar Dutch emigration. That year, young cook Bert Broekman joined the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland to work aboard the emigrant ship SS Zuiderkruis. Fatefully, the same ship carried his older brother Jan, sister-in-law Annie, and little Read more

By DACC, 2 weeksSeptember 26, 2025 ago
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Dutch businesses in Australia

Learning Dutch in Canberra: Access Art Academy’s Language Classes

For many Australians with Dutch heritage, learning the language can be a meaningful way to connect with family roots and cultural traditions. Based in Canberra, Dutch language learners have the opportunity to join courses online at Access Art Academy, a mother-and-daughter team of Marion Verbruggen and Marianne Mettes. A Passion Read more

By DACC, 3 weeksSeptember 23, 2025 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

From Maastricht to Manly: the Wynhausen family’s Dutch–Jewish journey

The Wynhausen family represents one of the many Dutch–Jewish stories of postwar migration to Australia. Paul Wynhausen and Marianne (Mary) Nathans were both born in the Netherlands and endured the years of Nazi occupation. They met in Switzerland, where many Dutch Jews had taken refuge during the Second World War. Read more

By DACC, 3 weeksSeptember 22, 2025 ago
Military and Political History

Australian Horses for the Netherlands-Indies Army (ca. 1901–1930s)

Introduction The Aceh War (1873–1904), fought in the northern Sumatran region of Atjeh (Aceh), was the longest and most costly conflict in Dutch colonial history in the East Indies. The Dutch launched repeated campaigns to subdue the fiercely independent Sultanate of Aceh, which controlled a strategic position at the entrance Read more

By DACC, 3 weeksSeptember 19, 2025 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Catalogue List: Peters, Nonja (SLWA)

This document contains the catalogue items associated with Dr Nonja Peters from the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA). Below the pdf is a searchable list of titles, interviewees/subjects, and years to make it easier for search engines to find names and titles. A more readable full catalogue see the Read more

By DACC, 3 weeksSeptember 19, 2025 ago

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