Where do you guys hail from originally? England, Ireland, Scotland, Hong Kong… or what?
Is there a site online showing the mix of Australian ethnic origins in your population?
I would guess Australia. 
try here
http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/infosummary/index.htm
the site keeps freezing my computer but I think what you are asking is covered there.
Mr P’s ancestors came from Wales and Scotland. Mine are German, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian. We’re both New Zealand born.
Well, I’m from Scottish and English origins, but our population comes from incredibly diverse sources.
It is said that our original inhabitants came from Indonesian islands perhaps 80-100,000 years ago. Then in the late 1700’s, Aus. was set up ostensibly as a penal colony with British prisoners. Soon after we became the destination for Chinese and Afghanis, and then the Gold Rushes in the mid 1800’s saw arrivals from all around the world.
The next major ‘wave’ of immigration occured in the post war years, with predominantly Greek and Italian migrants (but also including other Europeans) making Aus. their home.
At the end of the Vietnam War, many disenfranchised SE Asian folk came here to escape the turmoil. And then since the Gulf War, we have ‘welcomed’ people from Iran, Iraq, Syria etc.
More recently our newcomers have arrived from Afghanistan.
When I was at high school in 1976, the school I attended comprised 85% of students from a Greek background, and the other 15% was made up of 26 other nationalities!!! And it is even more diverse now.
I love it…I could not imagine living in a ‘White Australia’, and while some older residents bemoan the ‘influx’ of these furriners, those xenophobic attitudes tend to be rapidly disappearing.
There is only one country from which I have never met anybody living here, and that’s Iceland.
Jail.
Just kiddnig, lads…
Well my mummy and daddy loved each other very much and after they were married expressed that love in a special way only mummies and daddies can…
Ok, they really were not very fond of one another and dad had just been arrested for sodomy and to save face my grandfather insisted he knock his wife up so the family would be safe from scandal and viola, a little Thylacine was set forth on the world having already acheived her life purpose, keeping daddy out of prison by being an impressive bump on her mother by the time the court case rolled around. Few acheive such success so young.
My ancestors hail from Scotland and England I am the sixth generation of us here so really don’t think it matters terribly much though an aunt of mine scandalised the family by marrying a man whose ancestors came from Holland three generations before.
Why yes, I do think my family weird in that marrying a gay man is better than marrying someone whose great grandfather left Holland for these shores but then again clogs are so very offensive
It is acksherly very cool to be able to claim a convict as one’s ancestor here…alas, I cannot…mine were very boring shopkeepers, also sans clogs. 
My mum was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada. Her mum was born in India.
My dad was born and raised here. We can trace our family back to settlers from England and Scotland in the mid 1800s.
I went to school with kids who were either first generation Australian or born in Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, UK, New Zealand, USA, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Germany, France, Russia, Argentina, Greece, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. There were probably kids from more countries than that, but I can’t think of them right now.
In answer to your question, we come from all over the place. Except for Aborigines, no one doesn’t have an imigrant in the last few generations.
My anscestors were English, Scottish, Welsh, and French. I am descended from a guy named Bustard (silly bugger later changed that terribly cool name to Bostock) who was transported to New South Wales for pickpocketing.
My girlfriend is Vietnamese (her Dad is Chinese), and we live in the Sydney suburb of Bankstown, which has Australia’s largest Muslim population, and also one of the biggest Vietnamese ones too. Most of these people arrived in the 1970s and 80s, and prior to that, Bankstown was a traditional Anglo-Celtic working class suburb - many people of that original demographic remain here too, and with a smattering of Greeks, Egyptians, folks from Eastern Europe, and many others, all in all Bankstown is a pretty interesting suburb to call home.
Lotta people came over after WW2, especially Jews that lost property 'n stuff in Europe. That’s where my family comes from.
The area in which I was raised was settled mainly by Germans. Even when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, a good 80% of the children I went to school with had German surnames.
Both my parents were born right here in Perth. My maternal grandfather was born in Croatia, and came over here with his family when he was a little kid (in the late 1920’s). My other grandparents were all in Western Australia, AFAIK. I think there’s some Irish ancestry on my dad’s side, and some French on my maternal grandmother’s side.
Czarcasm said:
I would guess Australia.
Actually, not always. Australia has a massive number of first generation of immigrants and since 98% of the population is non-indigenous, practically everbody came here within the last 214 years - short enough time that most of us know which country our ancestors are from. That’s why the question was asked, I presume.
I myself have origins from the UK on my father’s side (My father migrated here with my grandparents and uncle in the late 1960’s), and unknown origins on my mother’s side (they have been in Australia at least four generations, and we have never traced the family back to an immigration point. Could really have been the first fleet). I’ve lived in Austraila my whole life.
There is also a huge influx of upper middle class SE Asian families sending their children here to get an education. In my 300 strong Computer Science class, I could roughly 10 - 15 white people in the entire lot :).
Yeah, my Sydney high school was 60% Asian.
hey, we can all do this, e.g.
- where do Americans come from?
It’s not a coincidence that many people in the UK are called Anglo-Saxons. There were these two tribes…
… that loved each other very much…
We are one,
but we are many.
And from all the lands
on earth we come.
We share a dream,
and sing with one voice.
I am, you are…we are Australian.
I hate that song.
- Bubba.
My Mum is from England and my Dad is from Seychelles. My brother and I were born here.
So, yeah…
My mum was born in England, and my dad was born in Australia. My mother’s parents were English, their parents were Irish, and my dad’s parents were Australian and Irish. So my ancestors were mostly from England and Ireland, yet my last name is French.
I also went to a high school that had mostly Asian students - around 70%-80% Asian. That was in Melbourne, which could explain it.