Scottish Australian
Scottish Australians are residents of Australia who are of Scottish ancestry.
According to the 2011 Australian census 130,204 Australian residents were born in Scotland, while 1,792,600 claimed Scottish ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. This is the fourth most commonly nominated ancestry and represents 8.9% of the total population of Australia.
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“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)