Filipinos In Australia
Large scale migration of Filipinos to Australia commenced in the 1970s after the end of the infamous “White Australia Policy” with the majority of Filipinos arriving in the 1980s peaking between 1987-1988. In the 1990s, settler arrivals began to decline and the growth in the Philippines-born population slowed. The 1991 Census recorded 73,673 living in Australia.
The last Census in 2001 recorded 103,990 Philippines-born persons in Australia, an increase of 12% from the 1996 Census.
