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Growing Up Asian in Australia. Growing up Asian in Australia is an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, interviews, and comic art edited by Melbourne author and lawyer Alice Pung and published by Black Inc publishing in 2008. It is the first in the Growing up in Australia series.
Asian Australians are Australians of Asian ancestry, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the proportion of the population identifying as Asian amounted to approximately 17.4 percent with breakdowns of 6.5 percent from Southern and Central Asia, 6.4 percent from North-East Asia, and 4.5 percent ...
鄺凱莉[1] Kwong at a book signing in March 2006. Born. Kylie Jane Kwong. (1969-10-31) 31 October 1969 (age 54) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Nationality. Australian.
Website. alicepung.net. Alice Pung OAM (born 1981 [citation needed]) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the memoirs Unpolished Gem (2006), [1][2][3][4] Her Father's Daughter (2011) and the novel Laurinda (2014). Pung is a practising solicitor. She has also worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at ...
Vanessa Woods (born 1977) is an Australian science writer, author and journalist, and is the main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel. [1] [2] A graduate of the Australian National University with a Master's degree in Science Communication, [3] and an author of children's books, [3] she is best known for her work in both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic ...
Eddie Woo. Edward Kent Woo FRSN is an Australian secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube. In 2018, Woo was awarded the Australia's Local Hero Award. [2]
Asian immigration to Australia refers to immigration to Australia from part of the continent of Asia, which includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.The first major wave of Asian immigration to Australia occurred in the late 19th century, but the exclusionary White Australia policy, which was implemented to restrict non-European immigration, made it difficult for many Asian ...
v. t. e. Asian Australian history is the history of Asian ethnic and racial groups in Australia who trace their ancestry to Asia. The term Asian Australian, was first used in the 1950s by European Australians who wanted to strengthen diplomatic and trade ties with Asia for the benefit of the Australian community. [ 1]