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The colonies promoted migration by a variety of schemes. The Bounty Immigration Scheme (1835-1841) boosted emigration from the United Kingdom to New South Wales. [13] The South Australia Company was established to encourage settlement in South Australia by labourers and skilled migrants.
The Impact of Immigration in Australia: A Demographic Approach (2001) Foster, William, et al. Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities (1998) Jupp, James. From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (2007) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James. The English in Australia (2004) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James.
It is the largest self-identified ancestry in Australia. [1] People of ethnic English origin have been the largest group to migrate to Australia since the establishment of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788. [4] English Australians are a subset of Anglo-Celtic Australians, who are themselves a subset of European Australians.
Ten Pound Poms were British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, [1] [2] and the Government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in 1947. [3]
Arthur Calwell with the Kalnins family – the 50,000th New Australian – August 1949 In 1954, 50,000 Dutch migrants arrived. Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to the predominantly European wave of immigration which occurred between 1945 and the end of the White Australia policy in 1973.
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In Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, people of British origin came to constitute the majority of the population, contributing to these states becoming integral to the Anglosphere. [ 27 ] The British not only emigrated to parts of the British Empire, but also settled in large numbers in parts of the Americas, particularly in the United States ...
Streams of migration from the British Isles to Australia played a key role in Australia's development, and the people of Australia are still predominantly of British or Irish origin (See: Anglo-Celtic Australians). According to the 2011 Australian Census, around 1.1 million Australians were born in Britain, despite the last substantial scheme ...