European Australian
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Predominately Christian Jewish • Buddhist and others. Related ethnic groupsEuropean American · New Zealand European · White Latin Americans · European South African · European African A European Australian (also known as a Euro-Australian) is a citizen or resident of Australia who has origins in any of the original peoples of Europe. There is no official definition of what a European Australian is, although for the purposes of aggregating data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG) has grouped certain ethnic groups into categories of "North West European" and "Southern and Eastern European" Since the beginning of British settlement in 1788, people of European descent have formed the majority of the population in Australia. European Australians currently comprise approximately 93 percent of the Australian population. The majority of European Australians are of British - English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish or Irish (Anglo-Celtic) - ancestral origin. Other significant ancestries include Italian, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Maltese, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Polish , Russian and Turkish . From Wikipedia under the
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