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South Sudanese Australian
South Sudanese Australians are people of South Sudanese ancestry or birth who live in Australia. Demographics Following South Sudan's independence in July 2011, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) included the country amongst the country of birth and ancestry options in the 2011 Census that took place in August. This census recorded 3,487 people born in South Sudan in Australia. However, the ABS note that "South Sudan-born were previously included in the Census count of the Sudan-born, and this is highly likely with a large number in the 2011 Census". Of the 3,487, the largest number were living in the state of Victoria (1,118), followed by Queensland (715), then New South Wales (561) and Western Australia (489). A total of 4,825 people indicated that they were of partial or full South Sudanese ancestry. The 2016 census recorded 7,699 South Sudan-born people in Australia, with 2,750 living in Victoria, 1,430 in Queensland and 1,201 in Western Australia. 10,755 people ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Australian Census
The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 25,422,788 – an increase of 8.6 per cent or 2,020,896 people over the previous 2016 census. Results from the 2021 census were released to the public on 28 June 2022 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. A small amount of additional 2021 census data will be released in October 2022 and in 2023. Australia's next census is scheduled to take place in 2026. Overview In Australia, completing the census is compulsory for all people in Australia on census night, only excluding foreign diplomats and their families. Census data is used to "help governments, businesses, not for profit and community organisations across the country make informed decisions", including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deng Adut
Deng Thiak Adut (born ) is a defence lawyer and refugee advocate in Western Sydney, Australia, and a former child soldier from South Sudan. His story is told in a popular short video by Western Sydney University, where he earned his law degree. He was named the 2017 New South Wales Australian of the Year. Early life Adut was born around 1983 near Malek, a small fishing village in South Sudan near White Nile River. He is a member of the Dinka people. One of eight children, he had a happy early childhood spent with his family at their banana farm. At the age of around six or seven, Adut was taken from his mother and marched for 33 days to Ethiopia along with 30 other child conscripts. During the march, some boys died of starvation or thirst, others were shot by bandits, and others attacked by wild animals. The boys were forced to fight for the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the Second Sudanese Civil War. They were brainwashed and given daily doses of khat, a herbal stimul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabior Chol
Mabior Chol (born 29 January 1997) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL), having formerly played for the Richmond Football Club. He was drafted by Richmond in the 2016 rookie draft and made his debut in round 23, 2016. Chol was delisted by the club in 2018 before being immediately re-rookied in the 2019 rookie draft. In 2019 Chol won a VFL premiership while playing with the Richmond reserves side. Chol moved from Richmond to Gold Coast as a free agent in October 2021. Early life and junior football Chol was born in present-day South Sudan, before his family fled to Egypt to avoid the ongoing civil war when he was two years old. They moved to Australia in 2005 when Chol was eight years of age, settling in the Brisbane suburb of Acacia Ridge. After playing soccer and basketball at a younger age, Chol took up Australian rules football when he joined the Yeronga State High School team at age 12. After p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Government. Before the establishment of the order, Australian citizens received British honours. The Monarch of Australia is sovereign head of the order, while the Governor-General of Australia is the principal companion/dame/knight (as relevant at the time) and chancellor of the order. The governor-general's official secretary, Paul Singer (appointed August 2018), is secretary of the order. Appointments are made by the governor-general on behalf of the Monarch of Australia, based on recommendations made by the Council of the Order of Australia. Recent knighthoods and damehoods were recommended to the governor-general by the Prime Minister of Australia. Levels of membership The order is divided into a general and a military division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bol (runner)
Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol (born 22 February 1994) is an Australian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. He placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Bol represented Australia in the men's 800 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is the Oceanian record holder for the event. In January 2023, it was announced that he had been provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia after failed out-of-competition doping test, with the test showing signs of synthetic EPO. On 14 February, it was reported that his suspension had been lifted as his B sample returned an atypical finding (ATF) for EPO, but Sport Integrity Australia would continue investigation. Early life and education Bol was born on 22 February 1994 in Khartoum, Sudan. His mother is Sudanese, and his father from the region that is now South Sudan. His family fled the civil war in Sudan when he was four. In 2016, it was falsely reported that they lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangs (hip Hop Artist)
Ajak Chol (born 28 September 1990), better known by his stage names Bangs, Ur Boy Bangs, or Ur Boi Bangs, and formerly Bstar Bangs, is a South Sudanese-born, Australian hip hop artist. He released viral songs, "Take U to Da Movies" (2009) and "Meet Me on Facebook" (August 2010). In December 2009, he released an album, ''Hard 2 Be Up''. Early life and education Ajak Chol was born in Juba, South Sudan in 1990. At the age of 11, he moved to Egypt with his family after his father married another wife. He spent two years there before emigrating to Australia with his family in 2003. Career In 2005, Chol formed the Nubian Knights, a hip-hop collective with fellow East African migrants Ezeldin Deng, Francis Dbuia, Abraham Adet, and Tong Bol. It resulted from the Footscray Community Arts Centre's ID Check project. The Nubian Knights produced a self-titled album and performed at St Jerome's Laneway Festival in 2009. Chol recorded his debut album ''Hard 2 Be Up'' in mid-2008 at Gatew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Athiu
Kenjok "Kenny" Athiu (born 5 August 1992) is a South Sudanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cambodian Premier League club Visakha and the South Sudan national football team. Club career Youth Athiu joined South Springvale SC in 2006 at 14 years of age, and became a member of the first team three years later. In 2012, Athiu signed a short term deal with rivals Springvale White Eagles, with the success from the Springvale based clubs later earning him a deal with the more prominent Victorian State League side Box Hill United in the same year. Following more success, in 2014 Athiu signed for Heidelberg United in the NPL Victoria. Melbourne Victory After initially being linked with a move to Perth Glory, Athiu signed his first professional contract with Melbourne Victory in October 2017 on a season-long loan from Heidelberg United. Victory coach Kevin Muscat initially stated that it would be some time before Athiu would make the first team due to injury and fitn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliir Aliir
Aliir Mayom Aliir (born 5 September 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He formerly played for the Sydney Swans. Early life and career Born in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya to South Sudanese parents, Aliir's family moved to Australia when he was eight years old, eventually settling in Brisbane. After learning to kick a football at Kedron State High School, he was invited by a friend to play Australian rules football for the Aspley Hornets as a 14-year-old. Within a few years, he had made the Queensland side and was invited to play for the world XVIII at the under-16 championships in Sydney. It was during this trip that Aliir discovered he had a long-lost sister trying to contact him. In 2012, Aliir's mother, brothers and sisters moved to Perth to reunite with extended family. Aliir decided to remain in Brisbane, and that year, he made his debut in the NEAFL for Aspley. Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DyspOra
Gabriel Erjok Majer Akon (born 1994), known professionally as DyspOra (pronounced "die-spora"), is a South Sudanese-born Australian hip hop artist, poet and activist. He is the founder of the music collective and independent record label Playback 808, and released the 8-track EP, ''The AustrAlien'', in partnership with the not-for-profit organisation Music in Exile in April 2020, after a series of singles and shorter collaborations. He calls his brand of hip hop "Sonic Activism", as he uses his music as a tool to influence social change. Early life Born around 1994 as Gabriel Erjok Majer Akon, he spent his first seven years living in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, before migrating to South Australia as a 10-year-old with his family in 2004. Attending school in Adelaide, he wrote poetry, and soon became a socially-conscious rapper called DyspOra. Career Akon established Playback808 as an independent hip hop collective in 2011 and later (around 2017) as a record label. Ako ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac Andrew
Mac Andrew (born 4 December 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Andrew was born in Cairo, Egypt, to South Sudanese parents. In 2005, at 18 months of age, he moved to Australia with his family. He began playing Australian rules football for Wantirna South at the under-9s level and later played at Berwick, he also played basketball throughout his upbringing. Andrew progressed through the junior football ranks before being selected to represent the Dandenong Stingrays in the NAB League. He was also a member of the Melbourne Demons' Next Generation Academy but was later ruled ineligible to be selected by the Demons due to restrictions on NGA prospects bid on with first round picks. At the age of 17, Andrew was drafted to the Gold Coast Suns with pick 5 in the 2021 AFL draft and became the first player of South Sudanese heritage to be taken with a top five pick in the national dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leek Aleer
Leek Aleer ( ; born 21 August 2001) is a professional Australian Rules Footballer. He was selected by the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the 2021 AFL draft. He previously played for the Central Districts Football Club in the SANFL and the Angle Vale Football Club in the Adelaide Plains Football League. Aleer was born in Kenya to South Sudanese parents by Marc McGowan 28 July 2022 and came to Australia as a refugee when he was six years old. After arriving, his uncles were big fans of the |
