How Many Chinese Immigrants In Australia
. 1891 Census Mudgee District. Many would agree that old prejudices against Chinese have largely given way to general acceptance of Chinese-Australians.
47 per cent of the Greater Sydney population comes from a Chinese background compared to 31 per cent from England. Chinese influence in Australia has taken many forms some of them better appreciated than others. In fact the same survey found that 25 per cent of Chinese-born immigrants.
Now there are about 12 million people in Australia with Chinese ancestry.
Chapter 1 outlines the administrative history of the major agencies responsible for the administration of laws and regulations that affected Chinese immigrants and settlers and ChineseAustralians and it looks at the interrelationship between the administrative process and the records. Yet ongoing debates make clear there is growing discomfort about the Chinese presence in Australia. For years older Chinese-Australians have nursed the painful legacy of the White Australia Policy. In fact the same survey found that 25 per cent of Chinese-born immigrants.
