The term Australian diaspora refers to the approximately 1,000,000 Australian citizens (approximately 5% of the population) who today live outside Australia. This usage of the term includes the many citizens who spend some time in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe but return to Australia. The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement made it easy for Australians to migrate into New Zealand and vice versa.
The term may also be used to refer to the population of Indigenous Australians who have been displaced within Australia - from their traditional homelands by colonisation, or from their families by child removal policies.
Read more about Australian Diaspora: History of Australians Aboard, United Kingdom, China, United States, Comparison With The Expatriate Populations of Other Countries
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“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work—the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)