As one "tulip under the gum tree", I agree with the petition.
“Minister Donner wants to revoke Dutch passports from those who obtain a foreign passport and to make it more difficult to reacquire a Dutch passport.
However, Dutch identity and loyalty to the Netherlands is not lost upon acquiring a dual citizenship, something that is often done purely for practical reasons.
Dutch citizens abroad are ambassadors for the Netherlands and promote Dutch inter…
But wait.........more "connections"...........Nimbin, Art, Dutchness, .....
Was particularly drawn in by today’s SBS Radio-Dutch program.
There was further explanation regarding the move to take away dual citizenship, by the Dutch government and the person who was ‘featured’ today, to talk about why she lives where she lives, was Suzanne Visser and she lives in Nimbin.
I first heard about Nimbin from a colleague, when I was in my first years of teaching. …
Dutchies in the Illawarra
Dutchies in the Illawarra’ is an 86 page, illustrated book, the product of Bill’s research into the history of Dutch immigrant families who settled in the Illawarra in the 1950s. Bill has recorded in his book the experiences of twelve Dutch immigrant families which as he wrote, ‘illustrates some of the difficulties, anxieties and ultimate triumphs’ they had experienced. Bill also included in his…
Generation gap. Random thought with a Dutch touch.
Am I imagining it, or is the division extra sharp, up there, in the Netherlands and Benidorm and other locations ‘conquered’ by the Dutch?
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In Sydney, it’s like the difference between Radio Station 2CH and the ‘hard rock’ ones.
ONE of the styles of music, still surviving in the Netherlands is often derisively, sometimes affectionately, referred to as “smartlapp…
If I could turn back time.......
…….and was still with SBS Radio (Then called 2EA), I would fix it so that in 2011 I COULD have taken a microphone to the Dutch Queens Birthday Celebrations, in Frenchs Forest and Petersham, and to the launch of the book, “The Lost Sister of Groningen” and, particularly to the 100 years Scheyville celebrations, to interview the Dutch-born ex-residents there, about their fee…
The day after Scheyville
All along the left-side of my brain kept insisting that the “100 Years Scheyville” celebration would be a fun, relaxed event.
It was!!
The right-side of my brain can now take a rest. It’s exhausted.
In the lead-up the May 15, there was much pressure to make as much use as possible of this occasion, to get in touch with Dutch-born Australians who might attend and to make them awar…
Scheyville on my mind........
I’ve just uploaded Moore about Scheyville!
O.K.!
Cheap ‘pun’!!!!
Carla Moore wrote a play, called A Different Sky, about Scheyville.
(For some reason, I keep thinking of the wrong title, namely: Time Present. Time Past.
I keep trying to convince nobody, who’s listening, that this play had such an impact on me because, if it had been said that the boy in the play, a main charact…
Who ARE these people? @ the Dutch Queens Birthday Reception.
I have just come home from the Dutch Queen’s Birthday reception, held, as in recent years, in the Masonic Centre, here, in Sydney.
(Koninginnedag or Queen’s Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands and the kingdom’s other constituent countries, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, on the 30th April (or on the 29th if the 30th is a Sunday). Queen’s Day celebrates the birthd…
It seemed like a good idea, at the time: Dutch Australian Heritage cooperation.
On March 29, 2011, a meeting was held, in the National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, for stakeholders in the Dutch Australian Heritage Cooperation Project, initiated by the Centre for International Heritage Activities, located in the ‘Museum Volkenkunde’, in Leiden, The Netherlands.
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My impressions and reactions.:
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Stakeholder Definition, from:http://www.mariosalexa…
The White Australia Policy and me.
I know!
It’s a long bow!
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My name is Jo
And I want you to know
That some time ago
for Carla’s next show,
( “Alfred Deakin is Afraid of the Dark” )
my voice was captured to go
into the dream of (I’ve run out of rhyme!)
one of the actors,
as…….
“Double Dutch!”
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Find out Moore!!!!!!!!!!!
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