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Anglo-Celtic Australian describes Australians with British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 and/or Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 ancestral origins.

Demography
From the beginning of the colonial era
History of Australia (1788-1850)

The history of Australia from 1788-1850 covers the early colonies period of Australia's history, from the first British settlement and penal colony at Port Jackson in 1788 to the establishment of other colonies and the spread of settlers....
 until the mid-20th Century, British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 and/or Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 comprised the vast majority of settlers, and later, post-Federation immigrants coming to Australia.

Anglo-Celtic is not a category in the the Australian census. The ABS have stated that most who list "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the Anglo-Celtic group.






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Anglo-Celtic Australian describes Australians with British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 and/or Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 ancestral origins.

Demography


From the beginning of the colonial era
History of Australia (1788-1850)

The history of Australia from 1788-1850 covers the early colonies period of Australia's history, from the first British settlement and penal colony at Port Jackson in 1788 to the establishment of other colonies and the spread of settlers....
 until the mid-20th Century, British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 and/or Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 comprised the vast majority of settlers, and later, post-Federation immigrants coming to Australia.

Anglo-Celtic is not a category in the the Australian census. The ABS have stated that most who list "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the Anglo-Celtic group. Australian censuses tend to show significantly fewer people of Scottish and Irish ancestry than ethnic composition studies indicate. Australian demographer Dr James Jupp speculated that many of these people prefer to list themselves as being of Australian ancestry.

In 1999, the Anglo-Celtic ethnic strength in the Australian population was calculated as 69.88%. This represents a proportional decline from 1947 when Anglo-Celtic ethnic strength was 90% and 1988 when it was 74.55%. The study also projected that in 2025 the Anglo-Celtic proportion will fall to 62.5%.

At the 2006 Census of Australia where citizens could self-select their ancestry, out of a total of 19,855,288 people in Australia, 6,283,647 (31.6%) Australians selected English ancestry, 1,803,740 (9.1%) selected Irish ancestry, 1,501,204 (7.6%) selected Scottish, 113,242 (0.7%) selected Welsh, 1,864 (0.01%) selected Manx, and 5,686 (0.3%) selected British ancestry (respondants could nominate up to two ancestries, so a single respondent could include both English and Welsh for example).

The United Kingdom remains the leading source of immigrants to Australia. In 2005-06 22,143 persons born in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 settled in Australia, representing 21.4% of all migrants. At the 2006 Census (excluding overseas visitors) 1,038,165 persons identified themselves as having been born in the United Kingdom (5.2% of the Australian population), while 50,251 identified themselves as Irish born.

Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 has the largest number of British-born residents (175,166), followed closely by Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
 (171,023), Australia's fourth largest city.

Usage


The term Anglo-Celtic
Anglo-Celtic

Anglo-Celtic is a macro-cultural term used to collectively describe the cultures native to Great Britain and Ireland and the significant diasporas located in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States....
 is primarily associated with Australians of British
British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
 and/or Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 ancestry. The broad term reflects the ethno-cultural composition of post-colonial
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
 Australian society, in which English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
, Irish
Irish Australian

Irish Australians are the third largest ethnic group in Australia, after Australian and English. In the 2006 Australian Census, 1,803,741 residents identified themselves as having Irish ancestry either alone or in combination with another ancestry ....
, Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 and Welsh
Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language. John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, although Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales far longer....
 components fused into a singular national group.

Some have argued that the term is entirely a product of multiculturalism
Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism generally refer to an applied ideology of Race , culture and Ethnic group diversity within the demographics of a specified place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation....
. Historian John Hirst wrote in 1994: "Mainstream Australian society was reduced to an ethnic group and given an ethnic name: Anglo-Celt."

Other terms like "Anglo", "Anglo-Saxon" or "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic" are used interchangeably with "Anglo-Celtic" (sometimes inaccurately, such as for persons whose lineage cannot be confirmed or established, or who are of an exclusively Celtic background). The word "skip" (sometimes derogatory) has been used by some ethnic groups in Australia to refer to Anglo-Celtic Australians; the term is in reference to the 1960s television program Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a popular Australian television television series for children produced from 1966 in television to 1968 in television....
.

Anglo-Celtic Australian Identity


The emergence of Australian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century diminished the degree in which Anglo-Celtic Australians identified themselves as primarily from their homelands, although many elements of Australian culture and life, from jurisprudence to gardening, are transplanted from British and Irish traditions.

See also

  • Anglo-Celtic
    Anglo-Celtic

    Anglo-Celtic is a macro-cultural term used to collectively describe the cultures native to Great Britain and Ireland and the significant diasporas located in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States....
  • Scottish Australian
    Scottish Australian

    Scottish Australians are residents of Australia who are of Scottish people ancestry.According to the 2006 Australian census 130,204 Australian residents were born in Scotland while 1,501,204 claimed Scottish ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry....
  • Demographics of Australia
    Demographics of Australia

    This article is about the demographics features of the population of Australia, including population density, Ethnic group, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  • Europeans in Oceania
    Europeans in Oceania

    European exploration and settlement of Oceania began in the 16th Century, starting with Spanish people landings and shipwrecks in the Marianas Islands, east of the Philippines....