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Hong Kong Australians are Australian citizens or permanent residents of Hong Kong descent. Many Hong Kong Australians hold dual citizenship of Australia and China.[2]
香港裔澳洲人 (Chinese) | |
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| Total population | |
| 100,148 (by birth, 2021 census)[1] (excluding descendants who were born in Australia, and first-generation immigrants who were born elsewhere) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 New South Wales  Victoria  Queensland | |
| Languages | |
| Cantonese, English, Standard Mandarin[clarify] | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian or Non-religious; Roman Catholic, Protestant, etc. |
Description
editThe predominant language among Hongkongers is Cantonese, a variety of Chinese originating in Guangdong. It is spoken by 93.7% of the population Slightly over half the population (58.7%) speaks English, the other official language; 4.6% are native speakers, and 54.1% speak English as a second language.[3] Code-switching, mixing English and Cantonese in informal conversation, is common among the bilingual population.[4] Post-handover governments have promoted Mandarin, which is currently about as prevalent as English; 54.2% of the population speak Mandarin, with 2.3% native speakers and 51.9% as a second language.[3]
Hong Kong permanent residents can come from a variety of ethnicities. The overwhelming majority (91.6%) is Han Chinese, most of whom are Taishanese, Teochew, Hakka, and other Cantonese peoples.[3][5]
History
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According to the 2021 Australian census, 100,148 Australians were born in Hong Kong;[1] a figure that would exclude first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong who were born elsewhere (mainly Guangdong Province in Mainland China), as well as descendants of immigrants who were born in Australia. The corresponding figure on ancestry was not collected.[6]
Notable Hong Kong Australians
edit- Benjamin Law – writer and journalist
- Clara Law – film director (born in Macau)
- John So, AO, JP – 102nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
- Raymond Chan – basketballer
- Lindy Hou, OAM – Paralympic Games and World Champion Tandem Cyclist
- Kenneth To – swimmer
- Gladys Liu – Liberal Member for Chisholm
- Curtis Cheng – victim of islamic terrorist attack during the 2015 Parramatta shooting
- Jared Lum – footballer
- Sam Chui – Aviation blogger
- Brad Turvey – former model and TV host in the Philippines (born in Hong Kong to a Hong Kong Chinese mother)
- Jessica Gomes – model (born in Singapore to Hong Kong Chinese mother)
- Stephanie Jacobsen – actress & TV host (born in Hong Kong)
- Anjali Rao – journalist & TV news program host (born in Hong Kong)
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "2021 Cultural diversity data summary". www.censusdata.abs.gov.au.
- ^ "Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)". www.hklii.hk. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Main Results (PDF). 2021 Population By-Census (Report). Census and Statistics Department. 2021. p. 46
- ^ Lee, John (2012). A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mixed Code in Hong Kong Speech. International Conference on Asian Language Processing. pp. 165–168. ISBN 978-1-4673-6113-2.
- ^ Carroll, John (2007). A Concise History of Hong Kong. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 144–147. ISBN 978-0-7425-3422-3.
- ^ "20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia" (XLS). 2006 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 6 January 2010: Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.
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