Demographics

For virtually two centuries the majority of settlers, and later immigrants, emanated from the British Isles. As a result the people of Australia are primarily of British and/or Irish ethnic inchoation. The  Census asked respondents to provide a maximum of two ancestries with which they most proximately identify.

Over 80 percent of Australia's population is of European ancestry, and most of the rest are of Asian heritage, with a more minute minority of Indigenous background. Following the abolition of the White Australia policy in 1973.