A Dutch Australia

Syphon

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Melvin Loh

Well, what about Jerome Cornelius and his bunch of crazed psychos on the WA coast in the mid-1600s ?

Also, I reckon the Dutch policy towards the blackfellas, had they settled New Holland, would've been tragically similar to how the Dutch in New Holland dehumanised, mistreated and massacared the local Indians of New Netherland, as in Pavonia 1643- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft's_War, due to their racist attitudes towards nonwhites and competition over resources.

We actually have a very significant German population in Australia since colonial times, esp in SA with the great no. of German immigrants in the Barossa Valley in towns like Hahndorf, outside Adelaide, some of whom also later moved up to the Alice Springs area as Lutheran missionaries to work with the Centralian Aborigines. Maybe in a TL with Dutch settlement, there could be larger nos. of such Lutherans, whose benign missionary policy towards the Aborigines clash with the Dutch settlers' more indifferent or hostile views ?
 

Syphon

Melvin Loh said:
Well, what about Jerome Cornelius and his bunch of crazed psychos on the WA coast in the mid-1600s ?

Also, I reckon the Dutch policy towards the blackfellas, had they settled New Holland, would've been tragically similar to how the Dutch in New Holland dehumanised, mistreated and massacared the local Indians of New Netherland, as in Pavonia 1643

We actually have a very significant German population in Australia since colonial times, esp in SA with the great no. of German immigrants in the Barossa Valley in towns like Hahndorf, outside Adelaide, some of whom also later moved up to the Alice Springs area as Lutheran missionaries to work with the Centralian Aborigines. Maybe in a TL with Dutch settlement, there could be larger nos. of such Lutherans, whose benign missionary policy towards the Aborigines clash with the Dutch settlers' more indifferent or hostile views ?
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Melvin,

In this TL you need to remember that the Dutch who are coming to Australia aren't the Extremist Calvinists that caused most of the problems in the cape colony and in holland itself.
These are the people who generally went to the americas or to GB.

In fact the Governor of the Colonly historically was given a show trial and put to death because his beliefs differed from the extreme calvinists who were backing Maurice of Nassau.
This colony is being set up with those who don't follow the strick calvinist views and also those who are against the monarchy.
 
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