{"id":315422,"date":"2017-07-01T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/census-2016-milestone-passed-as-australia-becomes-more-asian-less-european\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:37:42","slug":"census-2016-milestone-passed-as-australia-becomes-more-asian-less-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/census-2016-milestone-passed-as-australia-becomes-more-asian-less-european\/","title":{"rendered":"Census 2016: Milestone Passed as Australia Becomes more Asian, less European"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Australians born of Australian parents will soon be a minority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The census shows Australia reached a &#8220;<a href=\"news\/asian-immigrants-outnumber-europeans-for-the-first-time\">tipping point<\/a>&#8221; in 2016 where only slightly more than half its residents had two Australian-born parents.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term low of 50.7 per cent is a step down from 54 per cent in 2011 and 57 per cent in 2006.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiteGenocide?src=hash\">#WhiteGenocide<\/a> &#8220;Milestone&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Australia?src=hash\">#Australia<\/a> as Asian immigration invasion begins to overtake White population<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmCdPFgjaa\">https:\/\/t.co\/QmCdPFgjaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Lana (@LanaLokteff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanaLokteff\/status\/880866159842799616\">June 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than a quarter of Australia&#8217;s population in 2016 was born overseas\u00a0(26.3 per cent, up from 24.6 per cent) and for the first time since colonisation, most of the overseas-born came from Asia rather than Europe.<\/p>\n<p>China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia now account for more foreign-born residents than England, New Zealand and mainland Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Asian immigrants are typically much younger than European immigrants, meaning that the switch to Asian immigrants is helping slow down the ageing of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Only 23.5 per cent of residents identified their ancestry as Australian, down from 29 per cent in 2006. A quarter of us, 25 per cent, described themselves as English.<\/p>\n<p>While English remains Australia&#8217;s most used language, it is becoming less common, with 72.7 per cent of residents reporting they spoke only English at home, down from 76.8 per cent in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Mandarin is spoken by 2.2 per cent of Australians, up from 1.6 per cent, and Arabic by 1.4 per cent, up from 1.3 per cent. Vietnamese&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/census-2016-milestone-passed-as-australia-becomes-more-asian-less-european\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians born of Australian parents will soon be a minority.\u00a0 The census shows Australia reached a &#8220;tipping point&#8221; in 2016 where only slightly more than half its residents had two Australian-born parents. The long-term low of 50.7 per cent is a step down from 54 per cent in 2011 and 57 per cent in 2006. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}