A Dutch Australian is an inhabitant of Australia with full or partial Dutch ancestry, the majority of these people are part of the Dutch diaspora.

The history of the Dutch and Australia began in 1606 with Captain Willem Janszoon, a Dutch seafarer, landing on the Australian mainland, the first European to do so.

The VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie), or the Dutch East India Company, operated mainly from Batavia, modern day Jakarta. The journey from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies would take more than a year by the traditional route taken by seafarers, but after the discovery of the Roaring forties wind by Dutch captain Hendrick Brouwer, the voyage could be cut short but a number of months if followed properly. However, miscalculations and errors in crew et cetera made it easy for ships to become lost on this newer course. Some ships (the exact figures unknown), travelled too far west and sighted the west coast of Australia. A number of these ships became wrecked upon the reefs or cliffs that were known hazzards of the "Southland". Famous examples of these ill-fated ships include the Batavia, Zuytdorp, and Zeewijk. After the wrecking of the Batavia, a murderous munity was carried out under the orders of a psycopathic doctor from Haarlem, Jeronimus Corneliszoon.

Dutch Tilders (29 August 1941 – 23 April 2011), born Mattheus Frederikus Wilhelmus Tilders, anglicised as Matthew Tilders, was a Netherlands-born Australian blues musician.

Dutch Tilders was born in the Netherlands in 1941 and emigrated with his parents and siblings to Australia in 1955. As a child he had sung in school and church choirs, but later moved towards blues music, his first paying gig being on harmonica at Collingwood Town Hall at age 15, at a concert also featuring Johnny O'Keefe.

Tilders later took up the guitar, to be able to accompany himself when playing in cafes around Melbourne.

Tilders released his self-titled first album in 1972 and during the 1970s recorded and performed with musicians including Kevin Borich, Taj Mahal, John Mayall and Brownie McGhee.

Tilders also worked solo and toured with John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Tilders formed an enduring friendship with McGhee, who considered Tilders a genuine Bluesman. McGhee was a collaborator and close friend of Tilders' primary musical influence, Big Bill Broonzy and this affinity laid the foundation for several Australian tours together during the '80s, accompanied by the renowned Blues Harmonica player, Jimmy Conway.

Fenella Kernebone is an Australian radio and television presenter, based in Sydney.

Kernebone was just three months old when her family moved to Homebush, New South Wales, in Sydney’s west. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, New South Wales. Kernebone got her radio experience at Sydney community radio station 2SER.

She presented radio Triple J's arts program Creatures of the Spotlight (Sunday nights 9-11PM pre 1999), later renamed Artery (1999 - 2003). She currently presents the electronic music show The Sound Lab (since 2003).

Between 2004 and 2006 she was a co-host on the Movie Show on SBS TV before the show was cancelled.

She was a presenter on ABC TV's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Sunday Arts programme from 2007 - 2009. and is now the host of ABC TV's arts show, Art Nation every Sunday on ABC1 at 5.30pm and ABC2 at 7pm.

Geert Wilders (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣɪːrt ˈʋɪldərs] or [ˈʝɪːrt ˈβ̞ɪldərs], born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch right-wing politician and the founder and leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid – PVV), the third-largest political party in the Netherlands. Wilders is the Parliamentary group leader of his party in the Dutch House of Representatives. In the formation in 2010 of the current Rutte cabinet, a minority cabinet of VVD and CDA, he actively participated in the negotiations, resulting in a "support agreement" (gedoogakkoord) between the PVV and these parties, but withdrew his support in April 2012, citing disagreements with the cabinet on proposed budget cuts. Wilders is best known for his criticism of Islam, summing up his views by saying, "I don't hate Muslims, I hate Islam". Wilders' views regarding Islam have made him a deeply divisive figure in the Netherlands and abroad.

Raised a Roman Catholic, Wilders left the church at his coming of age. His travels to Israel as a young adult, as well as to neighbouring Arab countries, helped form his political views. Wilders worked as a speechwriter for the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie – VVD), and later served as parliamentary assistant to party leader Frits Bolkestein from 1990 to 1998. He was elected to the Utrecht city council in 1996, and later to the House of Representatives. Citing irreconcilable differences over the party's position on the accession of Turkey to the European Union, he left the VVD in 2004 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom.