Dan van Holst Pellekaan appointed as Deputy Premier of South Australia
The South Australian Mining and Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan has been appointed as Deputy Premier of South Australia ...
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Wacol Remembered 1949-1987
In the immediate post-War World years, refugees from war-torn Europe were resettled in different places across Australia. By 1949, it ...
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30 Anniversary Prins Willem Alexander Village Brisbane
The Prins Willem Alexander Village celebrated its 30th anniversary on 9 November 2021. The village is operated by MiCare and ...
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Scheepswrak ‘Batavia’ onthult geheimen van 17de-eeuwse scheepsbouw.
Onderzoek naar het scheepswrak van het 17de-eeuwse VOC-schip de Batavia werpt nieuw licht op de scheepsbouw van de Republiek der ...
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Isodoor Berkelouw moved the book business to Australia
The story of the famous Berkelouw bookstores goes back to Rotterdam in 1812. Several generations continued and grew the business ...
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Willem Hendrik Paling
Willem Paling (1 September 1825 – 27 August 1895) was born in Woerden, near Rotterdam. He was an accomplished Dutch ...
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The Sydney Railway Waltz by Willem Paling – 1855
The waltz was composed by Willem H. Paling, who had immigrated to Australia in 1853 from Woerden in the Netherlands ...
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Willem Paling and the villas ‘Woerden’ and ‘The Lodge’ in Stanmore, Sydney.
One of the first known Dutch immigrants to Australia was Willem Paling, born in Woerden. He arrived in Sydney in ...
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2001-00-00 Heritage The Stanmore Walk (W H Paling)
This walk was designed by Paling, who was the mayor of Stanmore and had two villas here ...
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Five minutes with Jeroen ‘Dutchy’ Hulleman (interview)
Republished with permission from Baking Business. Original article: https://bakingbusiness.com.au/five-minutes-with-jeroen-dutchy-hulleman/ Dutchy’s Bakehouse on the Sunshine Coast not only has a unique ...
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Righteous Among the Nations
The Righteous Among the Nations, are non-Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust. Rescue took many ...
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Hans Hulsbosch, independent brand designer
Hans Hulsbosch Born in Valkenswaard just south of Eindhoven, the Phillips city, age 62 in 2014. Hans married Marianne in ...
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Marijke Greenway, renowned artist and former world-class trampolinist
Marijke Greenway is an achiever, in different countries, South Africa and Australia, and in quite different fields. Her story is ...
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Dick van Leer, People Lover and Entrepreneur
Hans Fanoy and Jeltje Fanoy (nee Boer) with their children when visiting Australia. Not long ago, a book was published ...
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Is Australia facing a bout of the Dutch Disease?
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, the Australian press has regularly been referring to the Dutch Disease. So, it ...
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Dutch migrants key members of The Easybeats – Australia’s greatest pop group of the mid-1960s.
The Easybeats are worldwide known for their 1966 superhit "Friday on My Mind”. It reached no. 16 on the Billboard ...
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Dick Dusseldorp 1918-2000 – founder of Lend Lease
Born in Utrecht in the Netherlands in December 1918, Gerardus Dusseldorp was known as Dik as a child, the anglicised ...
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Oma’s Coffee House and Clog Barn – Coffs Harbour
The Clog Barn is one of Coffs Harbour's longest running tourist attractions. The business is still run by the family ...
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Dutch Windmill – Coffs Harbour
In 1968 Mr Franz De Kever, a Dutch architect working in Melbourne and his wife Rie De Kever purchased the ...
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Dutch Windmill The Lilly – Amelup Western Australia
Pleun Hitzert left 's-Gravendeel in 1980 with his wife Hennie and his daughters. Here he built a piece of 'Hoeksche ...
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