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First Australians
Aborigines were the real founders of Australia because they came to this land thousands of years before white people discovered it. -
Colonisation
On August 1786, the British government decided to start a convict settlement in New South Wales. This also allowed England to claim Australia. -
migration
Approximately 1900 Australia became a destination for migrate -
Colonisation result
-English is regarded as the national language of Australia.
-In 1996, 85% of the population spoke English. -
census
2006 census, 52,000 Indigenous Australians, representing 12 per cent of the Indigenous population, reported that they spoke an Indigenous language at home. -
other languages
2010–2011 study by the Australia Early Development Index found the most common language spoken by people after English was Arabic, followed by Vietnamese, Greek, Chinese, and Hindi. -
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australia
language policy
