Thursday, July 16, 2015

Australia and how the Dutch (my ancestors) FOUND it!!! :)

CHECK THIS OUT!!!!

http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/

QUOTE:

WHY ORGANISING AN EVENT COMMEMORATING DIRK HARTOG’S 1616 VISIT – IN 2016?

In 2015 we will commemorate the end of the Second World War. We will be invited to attend the ceremonies or watch on TV as the lines of be-medalled people march by. The authorities will organise them, and millions of dollars have been allocated to be spent on the commemoration in its various forms. It will happen. We need not plan anything. Some of us are more involved than others because of family connections to the fallen. After similar attention having been paid in 2014 to the end of World War I, we again will commemorate war and history, this time with many of us old enough to remember. In addition, at least five countries in Europe will commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, longer ago but also considered an important historical event.

In 2016 there may not be huge international events like this planned and government may take a break from considerable commemorative investment, or commemorate the various bloody battles of WWI individually until 2018 also.

GO TO:

http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/

Friday, July 10, 2015

Bed & Breakfast or apartment, up the hill from Manly- Fairlight Gardens. - Relax. Let Bob Reed advise and help you enjoy your stay, north of Sydney Harbour!!

Bed & Breakfast or apartment, up the hill from Manly- Fairlight Gardens. -

Relax.

Let Bob Reed advise and help you enjoy your stay, north of Sydney Harbour!!

BACK THERE, "up the hill from Manly",

is B.&B. / holiday apartment,

'FAIRLIGHT GARDENS'.

See some comments in the guestbook, below:

Monday, July 6, 2015

The Dutch ('authorities') seem to be unaware of how much contact there has been with Australia from before James Cook 'dropped in' - ONWARDS- Check this out:

He writes:

Why federalism should be abandoned and replaced.

"The Reform of Federation Paper “A Federation for Our Future”, recently published by the Abbot Government to generate a Green Paper, takes me back to a 2008 Conference on federal-state relations in Tenterfield. Abbott, an after-dinner speaker, then strongly advocated the dismantling of the states although the Rudd Government had, most disappointingly, just embraced another reincarnation of “cooperative federalism” passing up the very obvious chance to replace federation. Sadly, Abbott has changed his tune entirely and now talks about strengthening the states to operate in their “sovereign spheres to the extent possible”.

https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/klaas-woldring,54

I know Klaas via the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre.

PLEASE READ:

Dr Klaas Woldring Prof.-Retired, wrote:

"We find that younger Dutch Australians, and Dutch expatriates, are often not very aware of the important work involved in preserving the Dutch Heritage. The history of post-WWII immigrants is a large chunk of our work but there is much more to Dutch Heritage than that. The magnificent recent Mapping Australia exhibition in the National Library, Canberra made that perfectly clear. About half of the old maps displayed there were of Dutch 17th century origin, the products of VOC cartographers and seafarers who circumnavigated the Australian continent and mapped most of it.
The history of the WWII itself is also reflected in the role of the Dutch as the “Fourth Ally” and in important tales of those who came as refugees in 1942 from the Dutch East Indies.
And it is the story of several important individual contributions prior to WWII such as the Broken Hill Pty Ltd General Manager and pioneer Guillaume Delprat. Another example is the music shop operator Paling who started his business on the Victorian Gold Fields in the mid-1850s.
The Dutch contribution to the history of this continent is both unique and significant. This is often not realised widely in the Netherlands.
However, unless we display it ourselves here it may well be lost OR just become a very small part only of history found back in the occasional multi-cultural museum - among many other nationalities in this vast multicultural country. This is definitely NOT our objective."
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GO HERE:
http://dacc.com.au