Extracts of emigration cards of Dutch people in Australia 1946-1991

Though the Dutch were the first Europeans to visit Australia and New Zealand, initially colonisation did not take place. It was only after World War II that a sharp increase in Dutch emigration to Australia occurred. Poor economic prospects for many Dutchmen, and houses destroyed in the 1953 flood were powerful incentives to emigrate.
With Australia experiencing a shortage of agricultural and metal industry workers it, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, they seemed an attractive possibility, with the Dutch government actively promoting emigration.

You can search in the extracts of the emigration cards here:

https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/index/nt00335

You can search with the whole surname - or a partial surname to get more results.

There's also a Commonwealth Government Agencies database (ca. 1850 - ca. 1975):

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx

This database includes a large number of individuals from the Netherlands and Belgium.

More Shipping and Passenger Records in Australia: https://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/.

Passenger Lists of Ships departing from Bremerhaven in Germany 1834-1939: http://www.passengerlists.de/.

Wikipedia also has an article on Dutch Australians.

These are my blog posts on Dutch people in Australia:

• Gerrigje Verkerk (67) travelled to Australia
• 3 Otterspoor brothers in Australia
• The Dutch ancestor of the Mulder family in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Jan Bras of IJsselmonde was shipwrecked in 1727 on Half-Moon Reef, just off the coast of Australia