Anglo-Celtic Australian

Anglo-Celtic Australian
Some Notable Anglo-Celtic Australians: Donald Bradman · Edith Cowan · John Curtin Kylie Minogue · Alfred Deakin · Nicole Kidman

Total population
Ancestry 6,283,647 (31.6%) English 1,803,740 (9.1%) Irish 1,501,204 (7.6%) Scottish 113,242 (0.7%) Welsh 5,686 (0.3%) British (respondants could nominate up to two ancestries^[1]
Regions with significant populations
All States and territories of Australia
Languages
English
Religion
Predominantly Christian significant nonreligious population
Related ethnic groups
Anglo-African · British Latin American · Cornish · English · Irish · New Zealand European · Scottish · Welsh · White British and other white/European ethnicities.

Anglo-Celtic Australian is an ethnic or cultural category, used to describe Australians with British and/or Irish ancestral origins.^[2]

1 Demography
2 Usage
3 Anglo-Celtic Australian Identity
4 References
5 See also

Demography

From the beginning of the colonial era until the mid-20th Century, British and/or Irish comprised the vast majority of settlers, and later, post-Federation immigrants coming to Australia. At the 2006 Census of Australia^[3] where citizens could self-select their ancestry, 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, and 5,686 (0.3%) selected British ancestry (respondants could nominate up to two ancestries).^[4]

In comparison to the 2000 US Census where respondants selected an ancestry, 24,515,138 (8.7%) selected English, 30,528,492 (10.8%) selected Irish, 4,890,581 (1.7%) selected Scottish, 1,753,794 (0.6%) selected Welsh, and 1,085,720 (0.4%) declared British ancestry.^[5]

The United Kingdom remains the leading source of immigrants to Australia. In 2005-06 22,143 persons born in the United Kingdom settled in Australia, representing 21.4% of all migrants. At the 2006 Census (excluding overseas visitors)^[6] 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 has the largest number of British-born residents (175,166), followed closely by Perth (171,023).

Usage

The term Anglo-Celtic is primarily associated with Australians of British and/or Irish ancestry. The broad term reflects the ethno-cultural composition of post-colonial Australian society, in which English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh components fused^{[citation needed]} into a singular national group.^{[citation needed]}

Some have argued that the term is entirely a product of multiculturalism.^{[citation needed]} Historian John Hirst wrote in 1994: "Mainstream Australian society was reduced to an ethnic group and given an ethnic name: Anglo-Celt."^[7]

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^{[citation needed]}; the term is in reference to the 1960s television program Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.