Polish community of Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria has the largest Polish population in Australia[1][2] which comprises a large part of the city's eclectic multicultural community. In 1986, the state of Victoria accounted for 36.4 percent of Australia's Polish-born population compared with 25.8 percent of the national population. A vast majority of these immigrants reside in Melbourne's south-east, in suburbs such as Bentleigh and Caulfield.[3]

The largest portion of Melbourne's Polish population immigrated to the city after the Second World War, with the second largest influx occurring in the 1980s.[2] However, Melbourne's Polish history goes back much further than the 1940s, with a Polish Relief Fund and a Polish Society both established in the city as early as 1863.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "ABS Census - Country of Birth, 2006". Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 Leuner, Beata (2008). Migration, Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia: Polish Migration to Melbourne in the 1980s. Peter Lang. ISBN 3039115138.
  3. 1 2 "History of immigration from Poland". Museum Victoria. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

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