Immigration
The exact number of Taiwanese Australian is hard to calculate since most demographic research tends to clump immigrants from People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, into the broadly-defined "Chinese Australian" category as both the governments of People's Republic of China and Australia regard Taiwanese Australians as a subgroup of Chinese Australians due to the 'One China Policy' adopted by the Australian government with the recognition of the People's Republic of China in 1972 as Republic of China was ousted by majority of Member States of the United Nations General Assembly voting in United Nations Resolution 2758. This has consequently been a subject of controversy especially with those of the Pan-Green coalition in Taiwan that advocates Taiwan independence, that contradicts Australia's One China Policy to the island of Taiwan with recognition of People's Republic of China as the sole government of China that Taiwan is a part of China, and One China Policy adopted by Australia is different from the perspective of the United States that Australia does not have a "Taiwan Relations Act", but Australia does have a (number of) domestic Racial Equality-related Act(s) since Multiculturalism of Australia after the era of White Australia Policy from 1980's onwards as Australia was preparing to integrate in Asia, therefore, the term "Taiwanese Australian" officially refers to the broader Asian Chinese community in Australia (People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan). Most statistics for the number of Taiwanese Australians, including one by the Pan-Independence Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), puts an estimate at around 24,000. although there have be thousands more who had not been counted/immigrated since the estimation.
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