Slovene Australians are

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citizens who are fully or partially of Slovene descent or Slovenia-born people who reside in Australia.

History

Central European people called Slovenians began migrating to Australia in the mid-nineteenth centur

Until the 1900s, there was only a small number of Slovenian immigrants to Australia. The largest number of Slovenians migrated to Australia after

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The exact number who came after WW1 is impossible to determine because Slovenians were often classified as

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. After WW2, many Slovenian refugees migrated to Australia to escape death and persecution at the hands of Dictator Tito's totalitarian Communist regime.

Demographics

Numbers

In the 2001

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, 14,189 Australians declared that they were of Slovenian origin. In the 2006

, 16,093 Australians declared that they were of Slovenian origin. Because many Slovenians came from the

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they identified themselves as Austrians.

Notable individuals

Paula Gruden Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden (14 February 1921 – 26 January 2014)Suša, Barbara. 2002. "Pavla Gruden." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 16. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 73. was an Australian poet, translator, and editor of Slovene descent. ...

Tanya Plibersek Tanya Joan Plibersek (born 2 December 1969) is an Australian politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998 ...

* Lyenko Urbanchich *

Aurelio Vidmar Aurelio Vidmar ( ; born 3 February 1967) is an Australian association football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Thai League 1 club Bangkok United. He is a former captain of the Australia national team and former coach ...

Tony Vidmar Antony Vidmar (born 4 July 1970) is an Australian soccer coach and former player, who serves as an assistant coach with the Australia national team. He was a member of the Australia national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona ...

Mitchell Starc Mitchell Aaron Starc (born 30 January 1990) is an Australian international cricketer who plays for the Australian national team and New South Wales in domestic cricket. A left-arm fast bowler and a lower order left-handed batsman, Starc repres ...

* Milan Faletic *

Dana Faletic Dana Faletic (born 1 August 1977 in Hobart) is an Australian former champion, national representative, World Champion and dual-Olympian rower. Her international representative success was as a sculler, though she represented her state of Tasmani ...

Damian Mori Damian Mori (born 30 September 1970) is an Australian former football player who is an assistant coach for Adelaide United. He won two Johnny Warren Medals, awarded to the best player in the Australian league and was top scorer on 5 occasions. ...

Ivan Rijavec Ivan Rijavec (born 1951) is an Australian architect. Early life Rijavec was born in Trnovo, PR Slovenia, at the time part of Yugoslavia, in 1951. When he was one year old, his family emigrated to Australia, settling in a coastal town of Alb ...

* Dayne Zorko *

Stan Rapotec Stanislav Ivan Rapotec (4 October 1913 – 18 November 1997) was a Slovene-Australian artist. Early life Stanislav Rapotec was born in 1913 in Trieste, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 he moved with his family to ...

References

External links

History of immigration from Slovenia

Slovenian community in Australia

Historical Archives of Slovenians in Australia

The Slovenian: An independent online magazine

Slovenian Australian Network
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