You can contribute to an Australia-wide Study of the Dutch
At present, the Australia Research Institute at Curtin University, through Dr Nonja Peters and Dr Sue Summers, is conducting the largest study of the Dutch ever to be carried out in Australia. Interviews and focus groups with first and second generation Dutch migrants, evacuees from the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), and with recent arrivals to Australia have already been conducted in major capital cities and are continuing in Perth, Western Australia. The researchers are trying to locate child evacuees to Australia from the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) during and after World War II, and are collecting scanned copies of migration and settlement photographs, immigration documents, and copies of family histories to contribute towards a rapidly growing database of Dutch presence in Australia. There is also a questionnaire (see link attached), with separate sections for first and second generation Dutch, recent arrivals, and Dutch from the NEI that has proved to be a major source of information of the project.
