Belgian Australians

Belgian Australians
Total population
	10,022[citation needed]
Languages
	English · French · Dutch · German
Religion
	Christianity
Related ethnic groups
	French Australians · Dutch Australians

Belgian Australians are Australian citizens of Belgian ancestry or Belgian-born people who reside 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 Senator for Western Australia since 2007^[4] and Australian Minister for Finance since 2013^[5]
Wouter De Backer (Gotye), ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter.
Chantale Delrue, visual artist, member of Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women^[6]^[7]
Nicolas Hyeronimus (1808-1860), 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^[8]
Pierre Ryckmans, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney
Bradley Wiggins, born in Belgium to an Australian father
Michael Lakhdar
Waleed Ali
Dave Moorkens (Belgian waffle-ologoist)

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
^ "Tony Abbott's cabinet and outer ministry". smh.com.au. AAP. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
^ "Chantale Delrue: Awarded for service to the arts". dpac.tas.gov.au. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ 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

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

[1] ttp://www.smh.com.au/national/big-challenges-for-melbournes-smalll-liberal-20101203-18jui.html

[2] K.A.Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Pages 56-57.

[3] ttp://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070145b.htm

[4] ttp://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/senators/cormann.htm

[5] "Tony Abbott's cabinet and outer ministry". smh.com.au. AAP. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.

[6] "Chantale Delrue: Awarded for service to the arts". dpac.tas.gov.au. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[7] K.A. Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Pages 124-125.

[8] K.A.Lodewycks (1982), The funding of wisdom: revelations of a library's quarter century, Melbourne, Spectrum. ISBN 0-86786-006-5

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Belgian Australians

Notable Belgian Australians

See also

References

Further reading