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Archive for the ‘Aussie In The News’ Category
dinsdag, september 7th, 2010
Goed nieuws voor Peter R. de Vries. Hij kan zonder problemen Australië in. En nog mooier. Hij kan daar gewoontegetrouw mensen zonder enig probleem in hun huis lastig vallen. In dit geval Daniel Ian Ross uit Perth die er door Peter R. van wordt beschuldigd betrokken te zijn geweest bij de moord op de Nederlandse Mariska Mast in Honduras. Hij wordt gezocht door Interpol. Neehee, niet Peter R. - ondanks zijn naam - maar Daniel Ian Ross.

No restraining order in Australia for Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries
A Perth man has failed to have a restraining order slapped on high-profile Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and his TV crew. Daniel Ian Ross appeared in Perth Magistrates Court yesterday to apply for a violence restraining order on Dutch TV crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and two of his colleagues. He failed.
The Sydney Morning Herald - Mr Ross claimed he had been harassed by the Dutch crew when they tried to talk to him at his home in the inner-city suburb of Subiaco last month.
Mr de Vries, 53, and Chantal van Schuylenburgh, 43, were arrested for disobeying a police move-on order, after trying to question Mr Ross about the violent death of a Dutch woman in Honduras in 2008.
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Posted in Dutch on the World, Aussie In The News, Persvrijheid, Japan, Paparazzi, World on the Dutch, Misdaad, Reizen | 4 Comments »
maandag, september 6th, 2010
Gaarne wijs ik jullie even op onderstaande foto in de Australische krant de Sydney Morning Herald. En met name het onderschrift: “Equally extreme… Feiz Muhammed and Geert Wilders.” Vinden jullie ook dat het voorstellen om een nieuwe belasting in te voeren (kopvoddentax) even extreem is als het oproepen om iemand te vermoorden. Of specifieker, te onthoofden.
Het staat tussen aanhalingstekens, dat wel.
Het is dan ook een uitspraak van de Australische Sheikh Fedaa Majzoub. De andere Australische Sheikh Feiz Muhammed weigerde commentaar te geven op zijn uitspraken eerder deze week in een preek in Campbelltown over ‘die vuile Nederlandse politicus’ Wilders. “Eenieder die onze leer bespot, lacht om de islam en die verlaagt, moet de dood in, onthoofd hem, hak zijn hoofd eraf.”


The Sydney Morning Herald - A controversial Australian Muslim preacher, Feiz Mohammad, has refused to comment on reports he called for the beheading of the Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, as Muslim leaders in Sydney condemned his comments.
Sheikh Feiz yesterday declined to confirm or deny to the Herald that he made the threat that anyone who ”mocks, laughs or degrades Islam” like Mr Wilders should be executed ”by chopping off his head” in a speech at a sermon in Campbelltown last week.
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donderdag, augustus 26th, 2010
Peter R. de Vries is voor even terug in Nederland. Even, want zeven september moet hij al weer naar Australië voor een rechtszaak vanwege huisvredebreuk. Maar ja, het is bekend, die vliegangst hè.
Peter R. op zijn website: “Het is zeer de vraag of ik daar dan zelf bij kan zijn. Ik vlieg vanavond al weer terug naar Nederland en om dan twee weken later weer die hele reis te maken voor een rechtszaak die hier weliswaar gevoelig ligt maar in feite om een kleinigheid gaat. Er is bovendien een kans dat de zitting dan weer wordt uitgesteld. Ik vind het nogal veel gevraagd qua kosten en tijd. Ik moet daar eens over nadenken’.
De man die Peter R. belaagde in Perth ontkent overigens alles. Ook al vraagt Interpol om zijn opsporing, zie verderop. Honduras zegt hij het land is ontvlucht en heeft om zijn aanhouding en uitlevering gevraagd.

Perth man denies wrongdoing over death
The Sydney Morning Herald - A Perth man who was pursued by a high-profile Dutch crime reporter over the violent death of a woman in Honduras has denied any wrongdoing. [read on] (more…)
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maandag, augustus 23rd, 2010

by paresh nath, the khaleej times, uae
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zondag, augustus 22nd, 2010
Is dit verhaal waar? Ik kan het nauwelijks geloven. De altijd zo genuanceerde Peter R. de Vries die Australië vergelijkt met China en Korea? Dat is toch niets voor hem. Dit schrijft The Sydney Morning Herald over ’s werelds beroemdste misdaadreporter.
Peter R. de Vries: “It’s very strange, I thought I was in Australia, a free country with free press but it looks like I’m in China or Korea.
“I’m very surprised the police decided this.” He said he explained to police what happened. “I didn’t touch him, I didn’t insult him, I didn’t threaten him,” he said. “This is a homicide case and I tracked him down and now you’re putting me in jail. That’s the world upside down.”

Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries slams Australian police
The Sydney Morning Herald - When the man complained to police, the Dutch journalists were warned by officers to keep off the property and when they failed to comply with a move-on order they were arrested.
They refused to sign for bail and were kept in cells overnight.
In the magistrates court on Saturday morning, van Schuylenburgh pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a move-on order and was fined $200 and ordered to pay court costs of $62.50, with a spent conviction entered.
But De Vries, who has a TV crime show in Holland, said he would not plead guilty because “it depends how you look at the facts”. [read on] (more…)
Posted in Aussie In The News, JdeW, Dutch on the World, Lifestyle, World on the Dutch, Misdaad, Politiek | 3 Comments »
maandag, augustus 2nd, 2010
Liz Cheney asked president Obama on Fox News to do what her family knows best: bombing. This time it is Wikileaks that should be obliterated because it released 92,000 files on the Afghan war. Dick Cheney’s daughter also suggested that Australian founder Julian Assange of Wikileaks has ‘blood on his hands’ and should be waterboarded until he confesses to his leaking.
“Julian Assange’s effort was to change course for the US policy in Afghanistan. He was unsuccessful in that. He does clearly have blood on his hands potentially for the people whose names were in those documents who helped the US and I think that’s something he will have to live with now,” Cheney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday.
“I would really like to see President Obama to move to ask the government of Iceland to shut that website down. I would like to see him move to shut it down ourselves if Iceland won’t do it. I would like to see them move aggressively to prosecute Mr. Assange and certainly ensure that he never again gets a visa to enter the United States,” said Cheney.
Posted in EchtWaar, JdeW, Neocons, Aussie In The News, American In The News, Misdaad, Internet, Politiek | 11 Comments »
zaterdag, juni 26th, 2010

The health care system in the United States is the worst among industrialized nations. And, as it turns out, its performance is most pitiful where Republicans poll best.
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Posted in American In The News, Aussie In The News, Lijstjes, Gezondheid, World on the Dutch, Geld, Politiek | 3 Comments »
vrijdag, mei 14th, 2010
Dutch police took less than a week to track down alleged war criminal Daniel Snedden who had evaded arrest in Australia for more than 40 days. Last night’s Lateline program detailed how the Australian Federal Police (AFP) contacted their Dutch counterparts a week ago because they thought Daniel Snedden, otherwise known as Dragan Vasiljkovic, may have fled to the Netherlands. read on>> (more…)
Posted in Aussie In The News, Misdaad, World on the Dutch | 2 Comments »
donderdag, mei 13th, 2010
There’s a running joke in my family that, unlike most Australians, we’re descended from the [Dutch] crooks who got away with it.
FourFourTwoAustralia, Shaun Hanns - I have a confession to make; I hope the Dutch win the World Cup. Not terribly patriotic, I know, but with the smart money being on Australia not making it past the group stages, everyone needs a reasonably reliable back up plan for the rest of the comp and who better than international football’s greatest underachievers?
This is not the first time I will have followed the Dutch team’s efforts at the World Cup. A combination of a Dutch surname, the lack of any Australian representation and a gaudy bright orange shirt were enough to convince me that the Netherlands were to be my team in my teenage years. Well, that and some stories about ancestors who happened to be 14th century Dutch spice smugglers of course. read on>> (more…)
Posted in Aussie In The News, Historie, World on the Dutch, Sport | 16 Comments »
woensdag, april 21st, 2010
The Sydney Morning Herald - One of my favourite people is an old boyfriend’s mum, Marijke, a stuttering Dutch psychologist, heart of gold, body of a Veronica and a penchant for buying old furniture, painting it beige and re-upholstering it in calico.
Meeting her in my teens was a revelation. The women I knew mostly fell into the category of teacher, housewife, mother, nurse or tuckshop lady rather than fiercely independent, free-thinking European woman who cooked lentils, travelled the world and danced to her own tune. Clothes optional.
I caught up with Marijke a while ago to meet her new man, Rene, a Dutch cardiologist. The little boys and I rolled up to a breakfast by the sea. Whole-wheat pancakes, bowls of stewed fruit the colour of jewels, fluffy clouds of yoghurt, steaming cups of coffee and light streaming in. At the moment I was reflecting on what a healthy sight it was, Rene pushed his chair back and lit a cigar. At the table.
I love Europeans.
He turned to me and said: ”Cathy, did Marijke tell you how we met?”
”No, she didn’t.”
He took a drag of his cigar and said: ”I killed her father.”
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Posted in Aussie In The News, Misdaad, World on the Dutch, Life, Politiek | 6 Comments »
zaterdag, april 17th, 2010

aboriginal shannon mcguire - sprekend m’n zusje mila
Aboriginals seek Dutch DNA link
Aboriginal Len Ogilvie is one of a number of West Australians who has undergone DNA testing as part of a research project that has the potential to re-write Australian history.
Theories have abounded for years as to whether Dutch crew, whose ships came to grief on the treacherous reefs off WA, married or fraternised with WA Aboriginals, producing children of mixed ancestry. read on>> (more…)
Posted in JdeW, English, Aussie In The News, Historie, Sex Appeal, World on the Dutch, Life | 9 Comments »
woensdag, april 14th, 2010

sam leach: ‘proposal’ - art gallery, new south wales
adam pynacker: ‘boatmen on the shore” - rijksmuseum
Double Dutch for our Sam
If the painting that won the nation’s most prestigious award for a landscape looks familiar, there’s good reason: the canvas is strikingly similar to the painting by a 17th-century Dutch master.
But the judging panel that awarded the $25,000 prize to Melbourne artist Sam Leach insists it is not embarrassed, despite rules that the Wynne Prize is for an Australian landscape.
Leach, 37, whose Proposal for Landscaped Cosmos so closely resembles a 1668 painting by Adam Pynacker, Boatmen Moored on a Lake Shore, said there was a long tradition of artists basing paintings on earlier works. read on>> (more…)
Posted in JdeW, English, Aussie In The News, Lifestyle, Kunst, Misdaad, World on the Dutch | 9 Comments »
zaterdag, maart 27th, 2010
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zondag, februari 14th, 2010

A Dutch tall ship has sailed into Sydney Harbour this morning.
The ship is on a voyage to retrace the route taken by Charles Darwin in the famous ship, the Beagle. The naturalist’s voyage in the 1800’s led to his theory of evolution. The 60-metre Stad Amsterdam will berth at Walsh Bay until Wednesday. The Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay is encouraging Sydneysiders to welcome the ship sail into the city. “It is certainly a very unusual and beautiful thing to see this morning with four of the most beautiful ships and also two of maritime’s modern boats to guide them into the Harbour,” he said.
Posted in Aussie In The News, Historie, Wetenschap, World on the Dutch, Reizen | 18 Comments »
woensdag, januari 13th, 2010
Mensen die niet verder kijken dan het neus lang is, zien in de huidige kou de bevestiging dat er van opwarming van de aarde geen sprake is. Jammer voor hen, meten ze ook elders in de wereld temparaturen. Bijvoorbeeld in Melbourne.
Melbourne has sweltered through its hottest night in more than 100 years.
Thousands of people turned up the airconditioning or flocked to pools and beaches, but for most there was no escape from the muggy heat… The last time Melbourne experienced a similar scorcher was on February 1, 1902. The mercury was still at 40C at 8pm on Monday and stayed in the high 30s all night.
Posted in JdeW, World, Aussie In The News, Historie, Wetenschap, Weer, Groen | 3 Comments »
woensdag, december 9th, 2009
Glenn Greenwald komt er achter dat de keuze voor een bepaalde politieke figuur in de Verenigde Staten heel weinig met ratio heeft te maken. Voor een Amerikaanse intellectueel is dat toch een hele stap. Greenwald stelt dat vast bij Andrew Sullivan, een gerenommeerde conservatieve schrijver die opmerkelijk emotioneel Barack Obama verdedigt.
Wij Europanen weten dat allang natuurlijk. Niets wat mensen doen is gebaseerd op rationele beslissingen. De ratio wordt slechts gebruikt om beslissingen achteraf te verklaren.
Over the past couple of days, Andrew Sullivan has linked to and published protests from various individuals who are quite angry that people “on the left” are being so mean to President Obama, and several of them are so upset that they have decided they are “leaving the left,” whatever that might mean. What’s most striking about these valiant defenses of Obama is how utterly devoid they are of any substantive points and how, instead, suffuse with weird, even inappropriate, emotional attachments they are. These objections are grounded almost exclusively in (a) a deep-seated conviction that President Obama is a good and just man who means well; (b) their own rather intense upset at seeing him criticized; and (c) a spitting ad hominem fury of the type long directed by Bush followers at any critics of their leader, and generally typical of authoritarian attacks on out-groups critics. Just marvel at some of this:
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woensdag, oktober 21st, 2009
De 54-jarige Peter Cannon beroofde en mishandelde acht jaar geleden een 71-jarige vrouw in haar woning in Tasmanië. De politie vond geen verdachten, maar naast de geopende kluis wel een opgezwollen bloedzuiger. ”Het was duidelijk dat de bloedzuiger net bloed had gezogen en omdat noch de politieagenten noch het slachtoffer was gebeten, werd het als bewijsmateriaal beschouwd”, aldus een politiewoordvoerder.
Het bloed werd uit het beestje gehaald en opgeslagen. Toen Cannon dit jaar werd opgepakt wegens een drugsmisdrijf en zijn profiel door de databank werd gehaald, bleek zijn bloed gelijk aan het bloed in de bloedzuiger. Geconfronteerd met het bewijs bekende Cannon de overval.
Heeft er iemand behoefte aan een waakhond? JdeW stapt over op bloedzuigers.
Posted in Aussie In The News, Misdaad, Groen, NouBreektMeDeKlomp | 8 Comments »
dinsdag, oktober 20th, 2009
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maandag, september 28th, 2009
Wat betreft afgehakte koppen in Nederland is wereldwijd het hek van de dam. Nu het Ghanese stamhoofd - koning Badu Bonsoe II - is overgedragen aan zijn nazaten in Ghana, komen vanuit de hele wereld eisen om koppen van voorvaderen terug te sturen naar het land van herkomst. Het is JdeW een raadsel wat voor verzamelwoede Nederland in voorgaande eeuwen in de greep had maar de feiten spreken voor zich. Het land zit tjokvol met illegaal verkregen koppen van inboorlingen.
Nu zijn er weer twee Aboriginals, te weten de Bundjalung Ouderen Gwen Hickling en John Morrissey, op weg naar Nederland om de kop van een voorvader op te halen. Het gaat om de schedel van een Aboriginal die in 1819 in het bezit zou zijn gekomen van de Nederlandse wetenschapper Sebald Justinus Brugmans. Het is de bedoeling de schedel in Australië op traditionele wijze te begraven. Balkenende - ‘mijn hoofd loopt om’ - zou Rita Verdonk hebben gevraagd een oogje in het zeil te houden om er zeker van te zijn dat de schedel ook echt Nederland verlaat.
Return to Australia: Netherlands to hand back remains to Aboriginals
Brisbane Times, Yuko Narushima, indigenous affairs correspondent — Two indigenous elders are on a mission to reclaim a skull, once studied by the botanist Joseph Banks, and now a world away from its ancestral home.
The Bundjalung elders, Gwen Hickling, 60, and John Morrissey, 64, yesterday boarded a plane to the Netherlands, where a medical centre will return the skull, along with the remains of four other Aboriginal people, taken in the name of science. Joining the two on their quest is an official from the Federal Government, which pledged to help repatriate ancestral remains in July. read on>> (more…)
Posted in Historie, Aussie In The News, EchtWaar, JdeW, Expat, Wetenschap, Going Dutch, Reizen, World on the Dutch, Life | 3 Comments »
woensdag, september 9th, 2009

We wonen al tientallen jaren in Australië. Een paar maanden geleden vond ik op internet een Nederlands forum waar recepten en poëzie worden uitgewisseld. Soms hardop lachend zit ik nu regelmatig in mijn studeerkamer achter mijn computer. Mijn vrouw vond het aanvankelijk wat merkwaardig, zo’n chatroom en dan met zo’n rare schuilnaam… Zit je te flirten, doe je aan cybersex, had ze al een keer gevraagd. Voor de grap, maar toch…
Vorige week emailde ik mijn nieuwe mobiele telefoonnummer naar een paar chatgenoten, zodat ze me per SMS konden vertellen als er een nieuwe ‘post’ was. Helaas had ik me in het nummer vergist en dat van mijn vrouw gegeven. Ik heb haar nog nooit zo vreemd zien kijken toen ze achtereenvolgens twee sms’jes kreeg van haar onbekende personen. Die van ene “piepkuiken076″ kon ik nog uitleggen, maar de “dikke kus van deborah27″ vereiste meer overredingskracht.
Freddy Malkau
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zaterdag, september 5th, 2009
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dinsdag, augustus 18th, 2009
Heart set on Dutch
Melbourne Heart will not be talking to former German captain Lothar Matthaus about its coaching position. The new A[ustralian]-League club was approached by representatives of Matthaus, who won 150 caps and captained West Germany to the 1990 World Cup. But Heart is believed to be close to securing a Dutch coach. “We won’t be pursuing (Matthaus),” Heart chairman Peter Sidwell said yesterday.
The identity of the wanted man remains a secret, although it is known the potential coach is Dutch, has been to Melbourne on an inspection tour and that a deal is imminent. Heart is hoping its coach will provide excellent technical knowledge and an ability to develop young players.
Posted in Aussie In The News, World on the Dutch, Going Dutch, Sport | 2 Comments »
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Vooruitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed ook, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg.
Gerard Reve