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Black Armada: Australian Boycott of Dutch shipping WWII

After the Japanese invasion of Netherlands East Indies, some 20,000 Dutch people fled to Australia, the majority were Indos. They were not well treated and the Australian Unions started to fight for their rights. As they became involved they understood these people wanted independence from the Netherlands. When, after the War, the Dutch wanted to recolonise NEI the Unions blocked all Dutch transport from Australia.

By DACC, 3 yearsNovember 18, 2022 ago

Dutch businesses in Australia

Philips Electronics Pty Ltd was the largest company from The Netherlands in Australia

Temporary display at Juliana Village, Miranda, Sydney – April 2024 Philips Electronics Pty Ltd Pierre van der Eng The predecessor of Philips Electronics Pty Ltd in Sydney was one of the largest Dutch companies that operated in Australia. In 1970 when it had 13,000 employees in various locations in Australia. Read more

By Pierre van der Eng, 3 yearsNovember 12, 2022 ago

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

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

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

Military and Political History

The Battle of Timor – 1942-1943

The Battle of Timor – the Dutch and Australians kept fighting after the surrender of Netherlands East Indies. The bombing of Darwin did bring WWII directly onto the shores of Australia. However, what is less well known is that the reason for the Japanese attack on Darwin and Broome was Read more

By DACC, 3 yearsOctober 16, 2022 ago

Aviation and Shipping

Royal Netherlands Indies Airline – KNILM and its link with Australia

KNILM an early aviation pioneer Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (in English: Royal Dutch Indies Airways) was the airline of the former Netherlands East Indies (NAI). It was founded on 16 July 1928 as the NILM by a group of 32 Netherlands Indies. KNILM was not a subsidiary of the better-known Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsMarch 6, 2022 ago

Literature

The invisible immigrants: Dutch migrants in South Australia

Introduction to the publication (2011). ‘God made the world but the Dutch made Holland’ is an old saying referring to the way the Dutch shaped their nation by reclaiming land. It is with this same sense of determination that the Dutch applied themselves to the task of assimilating into the Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsFebruary 27, 2022 ago

Military and Political History

The Fourth Ally – the Dutch forces in Australia during WWII

by Doug Hurst – 2001 The Fourth Ally tells of the Dutch forces who fought from Australia against the Japanese during WW II. Driven by the Japanese from Indonesia (then the Netherlands East Indies), they relocated ships, aircraft and personnel to Australia. They joined with United States, British and Australian Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsFebruary 20, 2022 ago

Literature

Allies in a Bind – Australia and the Netherlands East Indies in the Second World War

Early in Roger Bell’s book Unequal Allies,he states: ”Relations between the governments of Australia and the United States underwent fundamental changes during 1941-46…Indeed it was not characterized by general bilateral accord on political, defence and economic matters during war time.” These comments can be equally applied to the Dutch/Australian wartime Read more

By DACC, 4 yearsFebruary 20, 2022 ago