From the webmaster's desk.

Greetings.

For a long time now, as a member of the board, I have been looking after the website of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre. Quite a few years ago, I was hoping to support the D.A.C.C. in this way but the time was not right and, in the meantime, I set up the 'other' D.A.C.C. (Dutch-Australian Cyber Centre).

The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre was based in New South Wales (Chester Hill). The 'other D.A.C.C.' was been joined by people, interested in Dutch-Australian matters, not only in New South Wales but from all over Australia as well as the Netherlands, Belgium and elsewhere.

I have been the webmaster of the A Dutch-Australian Connection since 1996, making it quite clear that my site was and is just A! Dutch-Australian Connection, like myself, an "OzCloggie":-)., very often providing help, here.

We are all working for the same purpose but from slightly different perspectives.

Possibly, sadly, the Dutch Australian Cyber Centre, has quietly gone to sleep and looking after the D.A.C.C., website, (as well as quite a few others) gives me plenty to do.

Please contact me, regarding any matters to do with the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre website.

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Can you speak Dutch? Do you wish to learn, the basics? I am intending to put a proposal to a college in Sydney to teach Dutch to beginners. I am a retired Primary School Assistant Principal, and have a Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies (Mult.Ed.) from UNE. 37 years' experience teaching, including a number of years as part-time teacher, at Colleges of TAFE, taking classes in Reading and Writing for Adults and English as a Second Language. I was a member of the Dutch Syllabus Committees advising the NSW Department of Education Booard of Secondary Studies on the Higher School Certificate and School Certificate courses, in the 1970s and early 1980s. I enrolled and taught the first students Dutch, in the Saturday Schools of Community Languages. I was a broadcaster in the early Dutch programmes on SBS Radio 2EA.
I am a member of the boards of the D.A.C.C. (Dutch Australian Cultural Centre) and the Federation of Netherlands Societies. Apart from teaching Dutch when the Saturday Schools of Community Languages were established, I taught it briefly through one of the former Dutch Clubs, in Western Sydney. I need to speak it daily, as a sole carer for an ageing parent and I write and correspond extensively (in Dutch) via the internet, in weblogs, web-sites and email.

In order to apply for the establishement of a course, I wish to prove that the need exists in Sydney for the learning of basic Dutch for travel to the Netherlands and communication with relatives, among other reasons.If you are seriously interested please email me: jo@ozcloggie.com
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