Feeling better, after lunch, in a Dutch restaurant, in Smithfield, Sydney and a talk.
Once again, students, from Gifu and Shizuoka Universities, in Japan, ( in the sixth year of an intensive 17 day course on Australian history and culture, convened by Dr Sonia Mycak of the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, specifically designed for Japanese students, ) have visited the D.A.C.C., in Holland House, to learn about our Australian version of multiculturalism – exemplified by the Dutch community, DACC and Holland House.
This was the second year that Dr Klaas Woldring, Chairperson of the D.A.C.C. has lectured such students.
First partaking of lunch, in the cosy, very Dutch restaurant, through the Dutch shop. 
Followed by the talk in the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, behind the Dutch shop and restaurant. 
Abel Tasman, Dirk Hartog, and all the other Dutch explorers and sailors, who came and took a quick look, at Australia, 400 years ago, could not have known, that at least 250,000 of their country-men and women, would follow their lead, to Australia, and that one of them, would be telling a group of young Japanese visitors, in an outer-western Suburb of Sydney, while looking down on a miniature version of the capital of the Netherlands, consisting of replicas of the houses that were built in their time, all about their trips to the great south land. 
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MrJoop
A taste of Dutch Australian food…..
......followed by a taste of Dutch-Australian history!
(And then the rains came!!!)
MrJoop
From National Archives of Australia
Fact sheet 156 – Records relating to Dutch migration held in Sydney
The continuing tradition of Dutch association with Australia began with explorers such as Dirk Hartog and Abel Tasman. In spite of having the highest return rate of all Australian migrants, people from the Netherlands currently represent about 2.6 per cent of the overseas-born population in Australia. Approximately half of these migrants live in New South Wales.
Immigration and naturalisation records
Many Dutch people migrated to Australia in the wake of World War II. Many Dutch people lost their lives during the German occupation and Allied bombing and as Europe was facing economic and social devastation, survivors were encouraged by the Dutch and Australian governments to come to Australia. The Netherlands Australia Migration Agreement (NAMA) of 1951 facilitated the immigration of Dutch people to Australia, including those residing in the Netherlands East Indies.
Passenger lists
Passenger lists for boats and aircraft arriving in Australia provide general personal information. Many ships, including the Groote Beer, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Nelly, Sibajak, Skaubryn and Waterman, and some KLM flights, were specially chartered to carry migrants from the Netherlands. For more information see Fact Sheet 64 – Passenger records held in Sydney. Note that unless you know the name of the vessel and the approximate date of arrival, searching passenger records can be very time consuming.
Migrant selection documents and other relevant material
Many migrants applied for assisted passage to Australia during the post World War II migration boom. The forms they completed are known as migrant selection documents. A large number of Dutch migrant selection documents can be found in series A2478 , which is held in Canberra. For more information see Fact Sheet 66 – Migrant selection documents held in Canberra.
Book 15 of series SP606/2, which is held in Sydney, contains schedules of Dutch migrants nominated for assisted passages by their families or fiancees for the period 1950 to 1957.
(Our first accommodation, in Australia: Bonegilla Migrant Camp/Hostel.)
MrJoop
Just very briefly, and it really was no problem, I was reminded of a situation, when I attended a residential, at UNE, in Armidale, in the early nineties.
There was a lecture that day, attended by those of us who were undertaking studies in multicultural and aboriginal aspects of educational studies. A lecturer, sitting with his aboriginal students, was mistaken by the speaker, for one of the students.
Not that this happened to this visitor but there was another brief 15 seconds moment.
D.A.C.C. Boardmember, Jan Mees, was recently recognised for his voluntary work, along with his late partner, among the Dutch community, for many, many years.