How multicultural is your suburb? – By Charis Chang, Ken Macleod Source : sbs Australia is becoming even more multicultural. Search for where your neighbours were born, what language they speak and what religion they follow. In today’s Australia, about 28 per cent of people were born overseas and almost half have a parent who was born overseas – but in some places, that percentage is much higher. The 2021 Census results , released this year, revealed more than one million new migrants have been welcomed into Australia since 2017, and around 220,000 came from India – the largest increase in country of birth outside of Australia. India has now overtaken China and New Zealand to become the third largest country of birth behind Australia and England. Search the map below to see the top countries of birth in your suburb (not including Australia) and read on to explore two more ...
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Revelations? “Nationalities” in the 1871 Census of British Ceylon – By Michael Roberts This table has been kindly abstracted by Iranga Silva of the ICES in Kandy from Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheem & Percy Colin-Thome: People Inbetween. The Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformations within Sri Lanka, Ratmalana, Sarvodaya Printers, 1989, pp 202-03. Source:thuppahis.com TABLE 21: LIST OF “NATIONALITIES” IN THE 1871 CENSUS with special reference to Colombo and the Coffee Estates 1 Population of Colombo 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Nationality or Race 2 3 4 % in Colombo Population of Ceylon: numbers Col.4 as % of Col.6 Population on coffee estates Col. 10 as % of Col.6 Males Females Total Males Females Total Afghan 02 02 04 * 06 66.6 + + + + African 01 – 01 * 11 9.1 + + + + American 06 01 07 * 28 25.0 + + + + ...
