Dutch Australians

Dutch Australians
Nederlandse Australiërs
Total population
381,946 (by ancestry, 2021)[1]
(1.5% of the Australian population)
66,481 (by birth, 2021)
Regions with significant populations
New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia
Languages
Australian English, Dutch
Religion
Protestantism (Calvinism), Catholicism, Irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Dutch people

Dutch Australians (Dutch: Nederlandse Australiërs) refers to Australians of Dutch ancestry. They form one of the largest groups of the Dutch diaspora outside Europe. At the 2021 census, 381,946 people nominated Dutch ancestry (whether alone or in combination with another ancestry), representing 1.5% of the Australian population.[2] At the 2021 census, there were 66,481 Australian residents who were born in the Netherlands.[2]

History

50,000 migrants arrived in 1950s

The history of the Dutch and Australia began with Captain Willem Janszoon, a Dutch seafarer, who was the first European to land on Australian soil (which he christened as New Holland) in 1606.[3][4]

Demographics

At the 2021 census, 381,946 people nominated Dutch ancestry (whether alone or in combination with another ancestry), representing 1.5% of the Australian population.[2] At the 2021 census, there were 66,481 Australian residents who were born in the Netherlands.[2]

Notable Dutch Australians

See also

References

  1. ^ "2021 Australia, Census All persons QuickStats". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "GCP AUS". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  3. ^ "Early Dutch Landfall Discoveries of Australia". Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2007.
  4. ^ Allies in Adversity at the Australian War Memorial
  5. ^ the book of Australian Country Music. The Berghouse Floyd Tuckey Publishing Company

Further reading

  • Bureau of Immigration Research (1991) Community profiles, Netherlands born Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-14026-7
  • Duyker, E. (1987) The Dutch in Australia Melbourne: AE Press, Australian ethnic heritage series. ISBN 0-86787-215-2
  • Duyker, E.; York, B. (1994) Exclusions and admissions: the Dutch in Australia, 1902–1946 Canberra: Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies. ISBN 0-7315-1913-2
  • Eysbertse, D. (1997) Where waters meet: Bonegilla: the Dutch migrant experience North Brighton: Erasmus Foundation. ISBN 0-646-31005-4
  • Mencke, A.; Van der Schaaf, T. (1979) The distribution of Dutch immigrants in Australia 1947–1976 Thesis (PhD), University of Groningen
  • Peters, N.; Schwarz, N.; Noakes, K. (2003) Transpositions: contextualising recent Dutch Australian art Perth: Art on the Move. ISBN 0-9581859-1-3
  • Peters, N. (2006) The Dutch Down Under, 1606–2006 Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 1-920694-75-7
  • Schindlmayr, T. (2000) 1996 census: Netherlands born Dept. of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Statistics Section. ISBN 0-642-39909-3
  • Zierke, E.; Smid, M.; Snelleman, P. (1997) Old ties, new beginnings: Dutch women in Australia Carrum Downs, Vic. Dutch Care Ltd. ISBN 0-646-30854-8