13 Facts About Italian Australian

Two individuals of Italian Australian descent served on board the Endeavour when Captain James Cook arrived in Australia in 1770.

Many Italian Australian immigrants had extensive knowledge of Mediterranean-style farming techniques, which were better suited to cultivating Australia's harsh interior than the Northern-European methods in use previous to their arrival.

The deciding factor in the whole matter was the plight of the sugar industry: docile gang labour was essential, and the 'frugal' Italian Australian peasants were perfectly suited for such employment.

Nonetheless, more Italian Australian migrants arrived and soon nominated friends and relatives still in Italy.

Frictions between the established Italian Australian working class and the newcomers suggest that, during periods of economic crisis and unemployment, immigration acted as a 'tool of division and attack' by international capitalism to working class organisations.

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Nevertheless, in the early 1900s, some Italians calling at Fremantle and other Australian ports were refused admission under the provisions of the Act.

Nevertheless, the way Italian migrants were conceived by Australian society was not going to change after its perception had formed in the early 1900s.

Regardless of its veracity, it could be applied to only a minority of the new arrivals since, by Italian Australian Government estimates, fully two-fifths of its emigrants to Australia were from the Veneto and another two-fifths were drawn from the Piedmont, Lombardy and Tuscany regions.

Entry conditions of Italian Australian migrants became stricter in countries of more popular destinations as the United States, and Italian Australian Fascist authorities tightened the departure of migrants.

Conversely, after the war experience, the Italian Australian government embarked on the 'Populate or Perish' program, aimed to increase the population of the country for strategically important economic and military reasons.

At the 2021 census, states with the largest numbers of persons nominating Italian Australian ancestry were Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia .

The Italian Australian community has very distinctive patterns of distribution that differentiate it from the total population.

The remaining Italian Australian workers were mainly involved in farming and fishing .