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In 2006, 31.9% of Chinese Australians attained a bachelor's degree compared to just 14.8% for the general Australian population. 36.1% of Hong Kong Australians attained a bachelor's degree or higher. Chinese Australians born overseas reported high educational attainment with over 50% of them holding at least bachelor's degree. [ 35 ]
Chinese Australians also showed the support for the republic with monetary donations. In 1913 Chinese Australians, Chinese New Zealanders and others in the Chinese diaspora in the Pacific donated £36,000 to China. A letter of thank you to the Chinese Australians from the Finance Minister of the Republic is on display at the Golden Dragon Museum.
Harry Chan: First Chinese mayor of Darwin, Australia; Alec Fong Lim AM: Lord Mayor of Darwin, 1984–1990; Katrina Fong Lim: Lord Mayor of Darwin, 2012-2017; Henry Tsang OAM: Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier; Deputy Lord Mayor, Sydney, 1991–1999; Wellington Lee AM OBE: Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne, 1999–2000
The number of Chinese people in Australia rose significantly in the Victorian gold rush era, [3] and by 1861, was around 40,000, constituting 3.3% of the total population. [4] Liang Lan-hsun was the first Chinese Consul-General to Australia, sent by the government of Qing Empire in 1909 to Melbourne, then the seat of the Australian government. [5]
Barry Pang (born 1951), Chinese Australian martial artist; Ben Hollioake (1977–2002), Australian-born England international cricket player; Catriona Bisset (born 1994), Australian middle-distance runner; Chen Hsuan-yu (born 1993), Australian badminton player; Chen Shaoliang), Chinese Australian rules football player
Australians in China include Australian expatriates in China, international students, Chinese Australians as well as Chinese people of Australian descent. In 2001, there were over 55,000 Australians present in China. [1] Out of them, over 2,000 lived in the capital Beijing; an estimated 3,900 in Guangzhou and about 2,500 in Shanghai.
Chinese people first immigrated to Australia in large waves in the midst of the Australian gold rushes (beginning during the 1850s). Many of these people subsequently chose to return to China or were forcefully deported from Australia. The first known Chinese Australian was John Shying, who immigrated to Australia in 1818.
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 ...