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Royal HaskoningDHV Sponsorship 2025
We are pleased to announce that Royal HaskoningDHV will be an Orange sponsor of the DCCQ for 2025. We look forward to collaborating with them [...]
Mendix partners with Toll in global transformation
Rotterdam based low code enterprise company, Mendix, has partnered with Australian global logistics provider Toll Group, to support the organisation’s ambitious modernisation effort. Implementing Mendix [...]
Dutch involved in marine archaeology in Australia
In October 2022, Professor Martijn Manders from the University of Leiden visited Australia in his function as the Head of Programme Maritime Heritage Dutch Government: [...]
Free lecture Visiting Dutch Professor Marine Archaeology – 14 Oct.
Free lecture - The mysteries and wonders of the underwater world - Queensland Museum 14 October Highlights and issues from around the globe. A personal [...]
Dutch Hydrogen Fuel Cell plant being built in Springfield
Dutch Hydrogen Fuel Cell developer partners with LAVO Australia Nedstack Australia to receive $825,000 from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre to develop Australia’s first hydrogen [...]
‘Literal shipwreck treasure’ from famous doomed Dutch vessel resurfaces in Qld
Four priceless silver Dutch coins from a ship that foundered off the West Australian coast in 1629 have resurfaced in Queensland. The coins are from [...]
Dutchlink Brisbane organised three sold out history events.
Over the last half year Dutchlink Brisbane has organised three Dutch-Australian history events. In May we organised a seminar on the Dutch history of WWII [...]
New Netherlands Consul General and Deputy Consul General
The team at the Netherlands Consulate General in Sydney welcomed the new Consul General, Hugo Klijn, and new Deputy Consul-General, Meike de Jong. Consul-General Hugo [...]
Archerfield Airport history presentations and tour – 16 September
Invitation to WWII presentations and tour of the Archerfield Airport Heritage Room Organised by Dutchlink Brisbane on 16 September from 2pm till 4pm This is [...]
Dutch participation in Battle of Milne Bay 1942 – Seminar 10 September, Brisbane
Most of the vital reinforcement of New Guinea in 1942 and 1943 – during the War in the South West Pacific – including troops, vehicles, [...]
Dutch born photographer Joep Buijs
Joep is a Dutch born photographer who moved close to Brisbane, Australia in 2006 after meeting his now wife, Kerry. While Joep has had a [...]
Ms Marjon Wind inducted as the Netherlands Honorary Consul for Queensland
On Thursday 19th May at the Queensland Art Gallery, Ms Marjon Wind was formally inducted as the Honorary Consul for Queensland. It was also an [...]
Archerfield Airport history presentations and tour – 22 July -Booked out.
Invitation to WWII presentations and tour of the Archerfield Airport Heritage Room The event on 22/7 has been booked out and a new event [...]
Brisbane Profile: Maryse Jansen – Photographer
Maryse Jansen had always lived in Rijswijk and Den Haag in the Netherlands, until she made Australia her home in 2009. A different lifestyle, a [...]
Ambassador met Dutch organisations in Brisbane
During her official visit to Brisbane Netherlands Ambassador to Australia H.E. Marion Derckx and Honorary Consul Mrs Marjon Wind met with representatives of various Dutch [...]
Launch Heritage Plan Camp Columbia
In the presence of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Australia, H.E. Mrs Marion Derckx, at an event hosted by the Pooh [...]
DCCQ launches Dutchlink Brisbane
At the Dutch Chamber of Commerce Queensland, members have been suggesting extending our activities to include cultural, historical, and social events. Today, we are very [...]
Brisbanite John van Lieshout the first Dutch-born billionaire in Australia
John (Jan) was born in the Netherlands in 1946. The family of 13 – headed by father Karel and mother Anna – emigrated to Australia [...]