NEW DATE Thursday 3 February 1pm – Wakehurst Golf ClubCome and play in a beautiful bushland setting on a 9 hole par 72 course. Join Dutchlink for an afternoon of Golf and escape the hustle and bustle of the nearby city. Click here for the Read more…
Born in Brisbane in 1990 to Aboriginal and Dutch parents, Ellen van Neerven is a Yugambeh writer with traditional ties to the country between the Logan and Tweed rivers. Ellen won the David Unaipon Award in the 2013 Queensland Literary Read more…
The South Australian Mining and Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan has been appointed as Deputy Premier of South Australia. He was born in Canberra, to a Dutch father who had emigrated to Australia at the age of two. His Read more…
Lost footage of the Easybeats during their first performance on BBC’s Top of the Pops has been found after 55 years. The Easybeats was formed in 1964. All five founder members were from families that had migrated to Australia from Read more…
Dutch TV is a weekly television program on community TV Channel 31 in Melbourne and Geelong (Australia) and Foxtel Aurora. (Australia wide) They have been broadcasting for 6 years. The program is about Dutch people living in Australia and is Read more…
In the immediate post-War World years, refugees from war-torn Europe were resettled in different places across Australia. By 1949, it is estimated that one-tenth of the American/Dutch/Australian Army’s Camp Columbia area became the Wacol East Displaced Persons Holding Camp. In Read more…
Media Release After similar events in Sydney and Melbourne, an orange wave hit the inner-city bicycle paths in Brisbane on Sunday morning the 21st of November. Some 70 recreational bicycle fans, kids included came along for the ride. People had Read more…
The Netherlands Retirement Village Association of Qld Inc. The village, located at 62 Collingwood Road, Birkdale, is owned and operated by the above association. There are 40 independent living units (ILUs) and 44 hostel units. The central building has a Read more…
Onderzoek naar het scheepswrak van het 17de-eeuwse VOC-schip de Batavia werpt nieuw licht op de scheepsbouw van de Republiek der Nederlanden. Het wrak is in 1970 in Australië opgegraven en wordt momenteel tentoongesteld in het Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Read more…
The story of the famous Berkelouw bookstores goes back to Rotterdam in 1812. Several generations continued and grew the business in the Netherlands. By WWII they had one of the most well know antiquarian book business in Europe. However, during Read more…