IC: Today, April 5 2009, marks the 30th anniversary of the colony of New Holland's historic independence referendum, and the founding of the Republic of Australia. I've just come back from a festival in downtown Vlaminghcem. So, what have you guys been doing today?
OOC: Australia is mainly Dutch, with a southeastern English state - kind of like a Dutch Canada with an English Quebec. PoD is the seas not being so choppy as in OTL on 19 July 1619, thus allowing Frederick de Houtman to lay anchor near Swan River, Western Australia that day.