Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973), the granddaughter of Dick Dusseldorp, the founder of Lend Lease. Martha is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include BlackJack, Crownies (and its spin-off Janet King), Jack Irish and A Place to Call Home. Her story is told in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Good Weekend from 2020 and another article in the SMH from a year later.
Marta also featured in one of the SBS documentaries “Who do you think you are?’.
In 2022, Dutch-Australian historian Dr Nonja Peters resolved a longstanding maritime mystery by identifying Jan Fransz of Hoorn as the skipper of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) vessel Leeuwin on its 1621 voyage from Read more
Biography Dr Nonja Yvonne Huberta Maria Peters is a Dutch-born Australian historian, anthropologist, museum curator and social researcher whose work has made a significant contribution to the understanding and preservation of Dutch-Australian history. Her research Read more
Dutch migrants and Tasmania’s building industry The growth of Kingston following the Second World War was closely associated with Dutch migration. Among the businesses contributing to the area’s development was Laver Construction, a building company Read more