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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The Family Law is a family memoir published in 2010. It was a shortlisted nominee for Book of the Year at the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards, [1] and was adapted by Matchbox Pictures into a six-part television series for the SBS network in 2016, which Law created and co-wrote with Marieke Hardy (Series 1) and Kirsty Fisher and Lawrence Leung (Series 2). [6]
Chinese immigration to Sydney dates back almost two hundred years, with Mak Sai Ying being the first recorded settler in Australia. The 2006 census showed that 221,995 people (5.39%) in Sydney reported Cantonese or Standard Chinese as the language they used at home. [1] The suburbs of Burwood, Eastwood, Campsie and Rhodes have plurality Chinese ...
Immigration to Australia. The Australian continent was first settled when ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea over 50,000 years ago. [1] European colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of a British penal colony in New South Wales.