Fijian Australians

Fijian Australians refers to Australian citizens or residents of Australia who are of ethnic iTaukei, Indian or Rotuman descent. Most Fijians Australians live in New South Wales (Sydney), Queensland (Brisbane) and Victoria (Melbourne).[2]

People born in Fiji as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census.
Fijian Australians
Total population
23,770 iTaukei and 16,211 Indian (by ancestry, 2011)
56,979 (by birth, 2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Sydney • Brisbane • Melbourne
Languages
English • iTaukei • Hindi
Related ethnic groups
Fijians
The number of permanent settlers arriving in Australia from Fiji since 1991 (monthly)

Australia is home to the largest Fijian population in the world outside Fiji itself.

According to the 2011 Australian census 48,141 Australians were born in Fiji.[3]

Many Fijian Australians have established names for themselves in professional Australian sport, particularly in rugby union, rugby league and Australian rules football.

Languages

In 2016, the top three most common home languages spoken by Australians born in Fiji were Hindi (33,411), English (14,717) and Fijian (6,548); and less than 3.7% reported speaking English "not well or at all".[4]

In 2011, the top five most common home languages spoken by people nominating "Fijian" in New South Wales were English (47.2%), Hindi (25.1%), Fijian (19.9%), Fiji Hindi (2.0%) and Rotuman (0.8%).[5]

In 2011, the top five most spoken languages by people in New South Wales nominating "Indo-Fijian" ancestry were Hindi (58.7%), English (30.1%), Fiji Hindi (2.5%), Urdu (1.1%) and Fijian (0.7%).[lower-alpha 1][6]

In 2016, over 50% of Fijian-born people living in Victoria spoke Hindi as their home language.[7]

The Sydney Rotuman Language School Inc. is a community language school run by the Australian Catholic University in Strathfield that offers Rotuman language classes.[8]

Notable Fijian Australians

Fijian Australians of iTaukei ethnicity

Fijian Australians of Indian ethnicity

Notes
  1. "Department of Immigration & Citizenship: Media - Publications: Statistics - Community Information Summaries". Archived from the original on 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2011-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "20680-Country of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex - Australia" (Microsoft Excel download). 2011 Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2013-04-08. Total count of persons: 19,855,288
  4. https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/mca/files/2016-cis-fiji.PDF
  5. https://multiculturalnsw.id.com.au/multiculturalnsw/ancestry-by-language?COIID=108
  6. https://multiculturalnsw.id.com.au/multiculturalnsw/ancestry-by-language?COIID=113
  7. https://origins.museumsvictoria.com.au/countries/fiji/
  8. https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/community-languages-schools/schools/rotuman-language-schools


  1. The third most common language of Indo-Fijians in New South Wales in 2011 was "Southeast Asian languages, not further defined").
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