A group of people who have Dutch ancestry and are researching our family trees.
Frank Zindler is a Dutch migrant and artist who is primarily known for having married Maria (Ria) Scholte, the 50,000th Dutch migrant to Australia. Early years in Indonesia and Australia Frank was born in Java Read more
In 1954 Maria Agnes Scholte (known as Ria) became the 50,000 Dutch person to migrate to Australia. Scholte was born in Amsterdam in the early 1930s and worked as a hairdresser prior to emigrating. She Read more
Nando Boers’ second novel Breng me thuis (‘Take me home’, 2020) tells the story of a Dutch family that moves to Australia in the 1990s but struggles to reconcile with this country as their new Read more