What to do with this Dutch Australia heritage.
On May 14, 2001, the then Consul-General of the Netherlands, Mr Ed J. Reitsma, spoke on this topic.
Meanwhile, the beating heart of the (now) D.A.C.C., is on life-support behind the Dutch shop, in 85 Market Street, Smithfield.
Let’s not under estimate Australians. They also know that Holland isn’t full of people, in national costumes, wearing clogs and singing songs from the fiftie
It is often stated that fourth and fifth generation descendants, like to find out more about the background of their ancestors. Will we have the information?
Part of getting into teachers college, to become, eventually, a public servant, was to be naturalised and if that meant I was staying, then my parents might as well too.
So we were. Regrets?