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This means that the Thai-born population of Thai ancestry in Australia at that time was less than one-twelfth of today's figure. The latest Census in 2011 recorded 45,465 Thailand-born people in Australia, an increase of 48.8 per cent from the 2006 Census. The 2011 distribution by state and territory showed New South Wales had the largest ...
Thai Town was established in the 1990s when rent was relatively affordable, and because it provided a source for Thai speciality foods, many Thai businesses moved into the area. In 2013, the area was officially recognised by the City of Sydney and given signage to indicate the hub's location on Campbell Street.
The first notable Thai to arrive in Australia was Butra Mahintra, sent by King Rama VI during the early 1920s to purchase racehorses. In the 1960s, a small number of Thai students came to study in Australia, and in the 1970s, a larger number of Thai people migrated to Australia as the result of political turmoil in Thailand. [38]
20 Asian Australian people have been members of the Parliament of Australia (the Federal Parliament), including ten each in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The most common represented ethnicity are Chinese Australian (nine) and Indian Australian (three). There are eight incumbent Asian Australian parliamentarians as of 2022.
Names of people in this category are sorted by given name, ... Pages in category "Thai people of Australian descent" The following 7 pages are in this category, out ...
Pages in category "Australian people of Thai descent" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Indigenous people are not listed because their community newspaper is in English, which may be due to the fact that different groups have different languages. Koori Mail [2] (1991 to date) is the national fortnightly Indigenous newspaper. A sampling of non-English language newspapers published in New South Wales, Australia
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages.There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Lao, Tai Ahom, Tai Kassay and some Northern Thai peoples.