(THIS ONE – ONCE AGAIN – IS IN DUTCH) Dwars door het midden van Australië in een auto op zonne-energie. Daar gaat het om bij de World Solar Challenge, een race van 3000 kilometer van Darwin naar Adelaide. Teams vanuit de hele wereld doen mee aan de twee jaarlijkse wedstrijd, die in het verleden al vaak is gewonnen door een team uit Nederland. Dit jaar hoopt Top Dutch Solar Racing uit Groningen aanspraak te maken op de overwinning met hun voertuig Green Thunder. Ik ben even gaan bellen met een van de coureurs, Mourad Mougou.

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN DUTCH – “When the mummified bodies came to the museum, a ceremony was held by elder Aunty Irene” – Visualizing Ancient Egypt in a modern way is what the exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt is about. Visitors can walk through a life-size temple and experience Ancient Egypt through art, jewelry, but also everyday objects. Curator and Egyptologist Daniel Soliman from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (NL), flew to Australia for the opening, to give a lecture. SBS reporter Jeroen Schouten (That’s me!) spoke to Daniel about the exhibition.

Visit Discovering Ancient Egypt at the WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth Cultural Center until Sunday, October 8. The exhibition will travel later this year to the National Museum of Australia, and will visit the Queensland Museum in 2024.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – If you know your history, you know that the guy that discovered Australia (or at least parts of it) was a Dutchman. His name was Abel Tasman. Hence, one of the states in this great nation being called Tasmania. After world war 2 a little boy called Feiko Bouman traveled with his parents from Groningen (a province in the Netherlands) to Australia to resettle. Years later, this boy would become one of Australia’s most sought after architects. Now Feiko Bouman wants to build a museum for Abel Tasman in the seafarer’s hometown of Lutjegast. Time for SBS Dutch to ask some questions…

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – De Zeeuwse voetbalster Angela Versluis maakte in juli haar droomtransfer. Ze verruilde Excelsior Rotterdam, die in de Nederlandse Eredivisie speelt, voor Queensland Lions FC in Brisbane. Eventjes bellen dus.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – Heleen is a film maker. She wants to make a docco (that’s Aussie for documentary) about people from the Westland region in the province of South Holland that moved to Australia to try their luck in the rugged outback. I called her to see what plans she had for her film, how things were coming along and to find out if she still needed people (hint: Yes) – This originally aired on SBS Dutch

HOLY HOLE IN A DONUT, BATMAN… I haven’t been here in forever. And in the process I have been really slack with posting new content for you to pod on… Let’s remedy that! While this is isn’t exactly “hot off the press”, it’s the last item I produced for SBS. Not last as in never again, last as in most recent. Even if most recent is 3 months ago… Oops! Anyway…

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH. A year or so ago Erica, Dutch immigrant to Queensland and experienced sailor, lost her, even more experienced sailor husband to a Crocodile attack in the mangroves of far northern Queensland. I decided to look her up and ask her how she is doing now that she sails solo. It was a few days before her late husband’s memorial service on what should have been his birthday. Spoiler alert: Erica is a strong woman, and doing fine!