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How and when did you come to Australia?: Born here

About Me:: My name is Natalie and I'm a university graduate.

I some day hope to move to Europe to further my career in the media.

My connection with the Netherlands:: My father's parents are dutch. They moved to Australia after WW2.

I have a strong interest in learning about and connecting with my dutch hertiage.

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At 7:13pm on June 27, 2008, Jo said…: Saw you were on-line. I rang my cousin, in Gouda, last night, to tell her that my daughter is wanting to shout her and my aunt, lunch, on 16 July.
I just think it's so good the wway my daughter feels weocome, in Holland.
My aunt's memoryloss is not as bad as my mother's Alzheimers was. It's so good that my mother's sister will meet up with my daughter again, in a few weeks.

At 10:08am on June 19, 2008, Jo said…: Welcome to this sie, Natalie. So pleased you joined. I discovered these Ning.com sites a week or so ago and set up a couple, on various themes. (The Maroubra Bay High School possible reunion one, is really taking off!).
I am so pleased to see you've joined because this is exactly what I was hoping for. A mix of people with Dutch connections, who may or may not have been- or be- involved in Dutch-Australian organisations.
My daughter (26, Australian-born. Australian mother) is off to the consulate-general today. Hoping to renew her Dutch passport.
The decision to have a(nother) holiday in Europe was a bit spur-of-the-moment, so now it may or may not be possible to get it renewed. It is an advantage having a Dutch-born father!
I thought of her because, she went to Amsterdam, a few years ago, as an exchange student and ONE of the courses she studied at UvA, was media.
A good friend of hers, with Finnish background studied media, here.
I am wondering if in your connection with the Netherlands fled is a slightly strong word?
One of the main reasons that my parents gave, for migrating here, when I was 12, was fear of a third world war. But also: a better future for me. The one they did not mention out of the more common reasons was housing-shortage.
But I suspect that my father's dislike of his current job then was the main reason.
Whatever it was. It was lucky for me.
Apart from being a member of the boards of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre and the federation of Netherlands Societies, here, in Sydney, I enjoy attending the meet-ups of the Dutch-Australian genealogy group, who meet in the Abel Tasman Retirement Village.
Wow!! That was a long welcome! Got side-tracked.