Belgian Australian
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A Belgian Australian is an Australian citizen of Belgian descent or a Belgian-born person who resides in Australia.
Notable Belgian Australians
This is a list of notable Belgian Australians and their descendants.
- Ted Baillieu. Liberal Party of Australia Premier of Victoria (2010-2013) and Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Hawthorn since 1999.[1]
- William Lawrence Baillieu. Philanthropist, businessman and parliamentarian.[2][3]
- Mathias Cormann. Liberal Party of Australia Senator from Western Australia since 2007.[4]
- Wouter De Backer (Gotye). ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter.
- Bradley Wiggins. Born in Belgium to an Australian father.
- Chantale Delrue. Visual artist. Inducted to membership of Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women.[5][6]
- Nicolas Hyeronimus (1808-1860) was a pioneering innkeeper, merchant, pastoralist and politician in colonial New South Wales, Australia. Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as inaugural Member for the electoral district of Wellington.
- Karel Axel Lodewycks. Author and Chief Librarian of the Melbourne University Library.[7]
- Pierre Ryckmans. Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/national/big-challenges-for-melbournes-smalll-liberal-20101203-18jui.html
- ↑ K.A.Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Pages 56-57.
- ↑ http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070145b.htm
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/senators/cormann.htm
- ↑ http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/cdd/women/leadership/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/chantale_delrue
- ↑ K.A.Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Pages 124-125.
- ↑ K.A.Lodewycks (1982), The funding of wisdom: revelations of a library's quarter century, Melbourne, Spectrum. ISBN 0-86786-006-5
Further reading
- K.A.Lodewycks (1988), "Belgians", in James Jupp(ed.) (1988), The Australian People. An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, Pages 284-285. ISBN 0-207-15427-9
- K.A.Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Boolarong Publications. ISBN 0-86439-057-2
- K.A.Lodewycks (2001), "Belgians", in James Jupp (ed.) (2001), The Australian People. An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Revised edition, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, Pages 185-186. ISBN 0-521-80789-1
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