History
Although there are indications that a Ukrainian was aboard one of the transports from England in the 1790s and there was a small group of Ukrainians living in Brisbane between World War I and World War II, the main body of Ukrainians immigrated to Australia along with other nationalities in the post-World War II wave of refugees from Europe. These refugees were called "displaced persons" and started arriving in 1948 as part of the International Refugee Organization resettlement agreement or on assisted passages.
In the 1970s a small group of ethnic Ukrainians migrated to Australia from Yugoslavia,. In 1991 Ukraine gained independence, and over the next five years the Ukraine-born population increased for the first time in many decades, in Victoria from 2,937 in 1991 to 5,370 in 1996. Many of these new post-independence migrants were young professionals in the fields of science, mathematics and computer technology.
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