Australian POPULATION Lecture 3 Groups of Australian

Australian POPULATION Lecture 3

Groups of Australian population o o 21, 5 million (2010) 90 % of European descent 3% of indigenous Aboriginal descent Old Australians = Aussies

New Australians Greek, q Italian, q Turkish, q Lebanese, q Vietnamese q

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard

What are Australians like? “Outdoor life is not only pastime, not only a true and delightful pleasure but a bit of an obsession, a mania”.

“What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control to an Englishman, what vodka to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money to a Swiss, that is outdoor life to an Australian” (George Mikes)

o o o 350, 000 60, 000 Aborigines 500 tribes Lost Generation

Australian Cities Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Hobart. o 60% in the capital cities of six states: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, and Hobart o

Sydney o o o the biggest city- 3, 7 million people Olympic Games in 2000 Sydney Opera House

Melbourne o o Sydney’s antithesis the capital of Australia from 1901 to 1927

Canberra o o “meeting place” Walter Burley Griffin a world-wide competition for the design of the capital (1912) National Gallery, the Parliament House, National Botanic Gardens

Brisbane o o Gold Coast Surfers Paradise

Perth (Western Australia)

Adelaide, the City of Churches o o the capital of South Australia Festival City

Darwin o Northern Territory