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In 2008, The Times reported that there were 400,000 Australians in the United Kingdom. [9] The 2011 UK Census recorded 113,592 residents born in Australia in England, 2,695 in Wales, [10] 8,279 in Scotland, [11] and 1,750 in Northern Ireland. [12] Within England, the majority were resident in London (53,959) and the South East (20,242). [10]
The UK itself updated its nationality law to reflect the more modest boundaries of its remaining territory and possessions with the British Nationality Act 1981, [63] which redefined British subject to no longer also mean Commonwealth citizen. Australian citizens remain Commonwealth citizens in British law [64] and are still eligible to vote ...
English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, [3] are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2021 census, 8,385,928 people, or 33% of the Australian population, stated that they had English ancestry (whether sole or partial). [1] It is the largest self-identified ancestry in Australia. [1]
The British diaspora consists of people of English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islands ancestral descent who live outside of the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies. In 2008, the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office estimated that at least 80% of New Zealanders had some British ancestry, however ...
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, [20] are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or ethno-cultural. [21] For most Australians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Australian.
A Commonwealth citizen is a citizen of a Commonwealth of Nations member state. Most member countries generally do not treat citizens of other Commonwealth states any differently from foreign nationals, but do grant limited citizenship rights to resident Commonwealth citizens. For example, in 14 member states, resident non-local Commonwealth ...
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.
BN(O) citizens are eligible to choose to apply for settled status after 5 years of qualifying residence in the UK. BN(O) citizens are eligible to choose to additionally register as a British citizen after 12 months with settled status, under Section 4c of the British Nationality Act 1981. British citizenship confers right of abode in the UK.