Stimulated by the gold rushes of the 1800s, Australia's early population was a strange mix.
The changing birthplaces of people at the top of Australia's migration tree since 1901 reflect international conflicts, changed political boundaries and the end of racially-biased policies, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.
A little over a century later the trend has reversed with 10-times more people born in South Africa living Down Under than have come from Syria.In 2016, more than half of the top 50 countries that Australian immigrants came from did not exist, in their current form, a century ago. Indonesia, Malaysia, many eastern European countries, the Middle East and other south Asian nations such as India are examples.
"I suspect numbers born in modern day Lebanon would have been a major component of the number recorded as born in Syria in 1901.""Australia's population change has been affected by resettlement following a range of conflicts including; World War II, the Vietnam War, the Balkans war, the Sri Lankan civil war and more recently, conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Myanmar," Prof Parr said.
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