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Maritime History

Overfishing and Dutch regulations saw an increase of Makassar fisherman in Australia.

Makassar centre of the trepang fishing Trepang fishing, also known as sea cucumber fishing, is a type of fishing that involves the collection of sea cucumbers, which are a type of marine invertebrate. Sea cucumbers are typically found on the Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 25, 2023 ago
Maritime History

First contact between the Dutch and the Aboriginal People

The first known Dutch encounters with the Aborigines in Australia took place during the 17th century, when Dutch ships were looking for new trading opportunities and made voyages of discovery to the region now known as Australia. It’s worth noting, Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 25, 2023 ago
Aviation and Shipping

Napoleonic Wars – British captured Dutch ship Swift and sold it in Sydney.

In 1795 the Netherlands was conquered by the French revolutionary armies and annexed by Napoleon. The Netherlands, now being a client state of France brought them in conflict with France’ s arch enemy Britain. As a result, the British launched Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 20, 2023 ago
Dutch – Australian History

Dutch persons among convicts transported to Australia

While most convicts transported to Australia came from Britain or Ireland there are also a remarkable number of Dutch names under the convicts. Some might have been Dutch people living in England, but others in one way or another also Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 20, 2023 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Reis naar Nieuw-Zuid-Wallis.  Uit het dagboek van een scheepsdokter – 1840.

A Voyage to New South Wales from the journal of a Ship’s Doctor An early Dutch writer on Sydney in the 1840s was P van Os. His book “Reis naar Nieuw-Zuid-Wallis.  Uit het dagboek van een scheepsdokter” was edited for Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 20, 2023 ago
Military and Political History

Looking for information on Jan de With

Jan Willem de With migrated to Australia from Indonesia in 1950 he was a Dutch conscription at 20.WE are looking for more information on him.

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 18, 2023 ago
Art, Music, Film, Theatre

Dr. Edward Duyker, historian, author.

Dr Edward Duyker was born in 1955  to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius. His mother has ancestors from Cornwall who emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1849. Edward’s father Herman, was born in Schaesberg, Limburg Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 18, 2023 ago
Dutch – Australian History

The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command – 1942

The American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, or ABDACOM, was a short-lived, supreme command for all Allied forces in Southeast Asia, the area also included the supply port of Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia.  ABDA had been established  at Bandung, Java on 10 Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 13, 2023 ago
Dutch Culture, Sport, and Religion in Australia

Dutch language and schooling in Sydney

Despite the poor level of language retention among the descendants of the Netherlands-born, Dutch remains an important community language in Sydney. In 2002 a new Dutch syllabus was introduced to the New South Wales Higher School Certificate. However, the number Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 12, 2023 ago
Literature

From Dutch cookies to lecturing and writing books – the immigration story of the family Ruijs

By Susanne Ruijs I arrived with my family in Australia in July 1980. Our family consisted of my husband Hein and me and our four children Eva (12), Saskia (11), Thomas (9) and Christine (6). Hein had been offered a Read more…

By DACC, 2 yearsFebruary 9, 2023 ago
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