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Sydney has been in the news this week for all the wrong reasons. and I
certainly wouldn't presume to comment on that. However, one thing that
did surprise me from the Australian population census, was just how few
people who live in Sydney had parents who were themselves, Australian
citizens.
I hope people will understand that Australia's history is our history too,
so is of more than a passing interest. I'm sure someone will rush to tell
me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the timeline of the colonisation
of Australia is:
To be pedantic and start from square one:
It's said that about 45,000BC the first Aboriginals settled the country
arriving from India and south east Asia. Unmolested by western man they
lived an isolated tribal existence.
The Dutch arrived (Willem Jansz Duyfken discovered Cape York 1606AD) but
didn't settle and colonise the island. In the 17th century (1770) Captain
James Cook claimed New South Wales for the British Crown but it was not
until the 18th and 19th centuries that coastal and interior surveys were
made.
The Prison colony of Sydney was created in 1778 - the actual prisoners may
have been convicted and transported over the most trivial "crimes".
Indeed, arguably, many were no more than a form of `free` slave labour for
the new country, created by the British judicial system.
Free settlers arrived around 1781.
In 1829 Western Australia was colonised, and 1836 South Australia was
colonised. The British allowed Australian colonies to write their own
constitution and limited self-government in 1850; the last prison
transportations ended in 1868.
The colonies were gradually granted self-government and eventually evolved
into states. In 1901 the Commonwealth Of Australia was formed by the
states of Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales
and Western Australia. The Northern Territory joined the group in 1911 and
the capital city of Canberra was founded in 1927.
So, British settlers have been in Sydney and elsewhere in Australia for
quite some time, albeit the population of Sydney now exceeds the total
population of Australia 100 years ago, so much of the growth has occurred
during the last century, and a lot of that after WW2.
Nevertheless, if anyone had asked me to take a guess as to what proportion
of inhabitants of Sydney had both parents who were born in Australia, (In
other words, their offspring are second-generation Australians) I'd have
guessed at perhaps 50%+
I was amazed to discover from the 2001 Australian Census that in fact,
only 27.0% of Sydney residents had parents who were both born in
Australia, thus almost three quarters are first generation settlers. That
may not surprise those who are more in the know than me, but I guess it
will surprise many others.
The 2001 Australian Gov Census shows "ancestry by parents" to be:
Origin of Parents Number % of Sydney total
North West Europe 1,761,318 41.91
(English, Irish etc)
Australian 1,135,150 27.00
South & East Europe 567,573 13.50
N.E. Asia 292,505 6.96
S.E. Asia 155,960 3.71
Central Asia 121,610 2.89
Other Oceania (NZ &Tas) 89,773 2.13
The Americas 49,119 1.17
Sub-Saharan Africa 29,231 0.69
Total 4,202,239
Note:
Of the NW Europe total of 1,761,318:
1,087,741 are English,
366,919 are Irish
Of the Southern and Eastern European total of 567,573:
167,411 are Italian,
112,426 are Greek
Of the N.E. Asian total of 292,505:
248579 are Chinese
The census show Sydney's religions to be:
Christian 2,680,679
No religion 469,448
Buddhism 135,971
Islam 134,366
Hinduism 48,462
Judaism 32,941
Other 22,642
Total 3,524,508
Notes:
(Some respondents declined to answer the question).
Of Christians:
1,182,123 were Catholic,
794,018 were Anglican
Of "Other":
187 were practising Traditional Australian Aboriginal religions.
The 2001 Australian Census (and the 1996 one) can be found at the website
of Australian Bureau of Statistics (An agency of the Australian
Government)
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/Home/Census
The census provides much more info than mere population statistics. It
provides info on the economy, employment, housing, crime, health, changing
trends, a "population clock", and the link below takes you straight to the
more popular statistics:
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/Home/Popular%20Statistics
Well worth a look. At least, I think so.
Sent for information - not argument.
If anyonwe thinks any of the above info is wrong, please don't get prickly
and tell me I'm ignorant - just tell me where I've gone wrong.
73 - David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
Eddystone User Group Member
G-QRP Club Member No: 1339
QTH: Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
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