One of the first Dutch business people on record is Guillaume Daniel Delprat CBE in Broken Hill. He was a metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman. He was a developer of the froth flotation process for separating minerals, and Chairman of BHP for 21 years. Delprat initiated the steel industry in Newcastle.
Another example is the music shop operator Paling who started his business on the Victorian Gold Fields in the mid-1850s. Many other early early examples can be found in the book by Dr. Edward Duyker (a senior academic): The Dutch in Australia, AE Press Melbourne, 1987.
The DACC was involved in the formation of Dutch Link, an organisation set up by representatives of Dutch multinational companies to accommodate business and social interests of all people with a Dutch background, both migrants and expatriates.
Dutch Link regularly hosts cultural and history presentations, organises sport and social events. These are increasingly attended by a rapidly growing number of expatriate Dutch nationals spending some years in Australia in business appointments. Cultural, social and educational examples in Sydney are for instance the King’s (Queen’s) birthdays (Masonic Hall in Sydney) and the annual Professor Cleveringa lecture, commemorating the closure of Leiden University in WWII, following the Nazi’s incarceration of Jewish academics.
Many other Dutch businesses can be found on this Internet Site below , The DACC plans to collect histories of these businesses. http://hollandhubaustralia.com.au/companies
DACC Paper-based ARCHIVES
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William Henry Paling 1825-1895
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SBS Video – Interview met Paul Budde over NBN – 29-3-2011
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SBS Video – DACC AGM , 5-11-2009
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SBS Video – General Meeting Federation of Netherlands Societies NSW 30-6-2012
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SBS Video – Broome March 1942 – Pilot Henk Hasselo and Navigator Frits van Hulsen remember. 8-3-2012
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SBS Video – Dutch PM Mark Rutte visits Australia 8-11-2014
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Dutch language programs on SBS-Radio
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Photo Harke Bosma, Director of the Abel Tasman Museum, Lutje Gast, Groningen, Klaas Woldring DACC
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Photo Harke Bosma, Director of the Abel Tasman Museum, Lutje Gast, Groningen
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Misprint in Indonesian independence and KLM stamps
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Photo DACC – 2016
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Photo DACC – 2016
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Photo DACC – 2016
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Dutch-Australia Smart City Summit
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Queen Maxima at Dutch Australian Smart City Summit in Sydney 3-11-2016
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Australia-Netherlands Smart City Summit 3-11-2016
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Suzanne Nicolet Gordon, the widow of Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon, commander of the former Dutch garrison Cape of Good Hope
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Dutch Company Concrete Developments 1950s
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Concrete Developments Pty Ltd Brisbane
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Pin celebrating the 2000 Australian Olympic Games
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