According to the 2006 Australian Census released this week about eight million people currently residing in Australia see their ancestry as British.Since the last census five years ago, there has been an increase of one million or 14%.
However out of these,those living in Australia who regard their ancestry as English has seen a slight decline, while those who regard their ancestry as Scottish has increased threefold to over 1.5 million and those regarding theirs as Welsh has seen a rise of 29,000.
So the total one million increase is mostly attributed to Australians identifying with their Scottish heritage.
The census also showed that the number of people born in Britain now living in Australia has seen a slight rise in the same period to just over one million people.
The number of British-born people coming to live in Australia in 2005 amounted to about 24,000, an increase of 3,000 on the previous year.
Interestingly, the number of British immigrants moving to the traditionally popular areas of New South Wales and Victoria were down whilst numbers were up in Western Australia and Tasmania.
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