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Migration history

Dutch immigration to Australia, history, stats and other resources

History Already in the 1800 we see Dutch people settling in Australia. A rather famous early immigrant was Willem Hendrik Paling who settled in Sydney in 1853. He established music stores in Sydney and Brisbane, wrote music, was a teacher and a performer. The 1911 caucus lists only 650 Dutch Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 31, 2022 ago
Migration history

Adri Zevenbergen – 100,000th Dutch emigrant to Australia – 1958

Adriana Zevenbergen, Australia’s 100,000th Dutch migrant, excited to start unpacking after arriving in Melbourne, 1958. The 50,000th Dutch migrant arrived had arrived in 1954.

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

WWI could have seen a different outcome for Australia and Netherlands

After the Franco-Prussian war in 1870/1871 – in which my grandfather fought – two important developments happened: This put Germany right in competition with Britain who was the global superpower of the day. Germany had a great (Prussian) army but didn’t have a strong naval force, rather the opposite of Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Dutch – Australian History

Spectacular -mini series incl murder of two Australian tourists in Roermond (NL) -1990

Miniseries about a succession of IRA attacks that really took place in the late 1980s in Limburg, Germany. Team leader Jeanine Maes (Hadewych Minis) opens the hunt for the ruthless Fiona Hughes (Aoibhínn McGinnity). The Spectacular | SBS On Demand The movie also highlights the’mistake murders’ of two Australian tourists Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
News and Updates

Dutch involved in marine archaeology in Broome

The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) is currently involved in one project in Australia. In this project, the RCE and the Western Australian Museum in Perth together investigate Dutch amphibious aircraft wrecked in the Australian port city Broome during the Second World War. In the past, the RCE Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Maritime History

Dutch Steamer Curaçao visits Australia in 1871

Reports concerning New South Wales, Queensland, the northern territory of South Australia (which then incorporated the Northern Territory), New Guinea and the Torres Strait by J.W. Ploos van Amstel, Consul-General of the Netherlands for Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Ploos van Amstel’s accounts are signed Cardwell [North Queensland]; Sweers Island Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Revealing colonial interview during visit of Dutch Navy to Sydney in 1910

In 1910 the HNLMS Koningin Regentes undertook a cruise to Australia to show the flag. Lieutenant Pieren was interviewed re the security in the region both in regarding to Japan and the situation in the Netherlands East Indies,

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Dutch Treat by Theodora Biesheuvel

Theodora (Thea) Biesheuvel – was born in Schiedam, Netherlands in 1939 and emigrated to Australia in 1953. She grew up in country Australia. She has written poetry since she was 8 but started short story writing as an adjunct to telling stories.

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 30, 2022 ago
Military and Political History

Some members of the18 Squadron NEI RAAF

See the profiles and stories of Joop van Doorn and Hans de Vries and Max Horstink. Click here for more information on the 18 Squadron Nederlands East Indies Royal Australia Air Force The following information with thanks to TracesOfWar. Sidney Rudi de Kadt evaded from occupied country the Netherlands to Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Gerard Johan Lugt Flight Commander at 18 NEI Squadron in Australia

Gerard Johan Lugt was born in Amsterdam, August 9th, 1917. When war broke out in the Netherlands on May 10th, 1940, he was in London studying aircraft construction. In August 1940, he left for the Dutch East Indies and was employed by Werkspoor in Surabaya from January 1941 onwards. Here Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

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