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According to the 2006 Australian census, 4,852 Australians were born in the Caribbean while 4,242 claimed the Caribbean ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.
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communities. These relationships, and links forged through the sport of boxing, contributed to later alliances between the
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Black convicts, servants and sailors from the West Indies also arrived in Australia and many of them later integrated into
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and Australia began in the early days of European settlement. Australia’s first newspaper publisher, and founder of the
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Caribbean people were also among the many nationalities flocking to the
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Total responses: 25,451,383 for total count of persons: 19,855,288.
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in Australia, the USA and the West Indies, including a branch of
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after 1851. One of the thirteen miners killed at the
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