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Caribbean and West Indian Australians are people of Caribbean ancestry who are citizens of Australia.
Demographics
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.
History
Connections between the West Indies and Australia began in the early days of European settlement. Australia’s first newspaper publisher, and founder of the Sydney Gazette in 1803 was George Howe, a white convict from the island of St Christopher. At the height of the British Empire, officers and administrators moved freely between far-flung colonies. Many came to Australia from the West Indies while others, like Edward Eyre, left Australia to take up appointments there.
Black convicts, servants and sailors from the West Indies also arrived in Australia and many of them later integrated into Aboriginal communities. These relationships, and links forged through the sport of boxing, contributed to later alliances between the Black Consciousness Movements in Australia, the USA and the West Indies, including a branch of Marcus Garvey’s UNIA-ACL in Sydney in the 1920s.
Caribbean people were also among the many nationalities flocking to the Victorian goldfields after 1851. One of the thirteen miners killed at the Eureka Stockade was a Jamaican. Arthur Windsor, editor of the Age newspaper from 1872 – 1900 was born in Barbados.
Especially since the abandonment of the White Australia policy, West Indians have arrived from many countries of the Commonwealth. From honky-tonk pianist Winifred Atwell to environmental engineer Ken Potter and writer Ralph de Boissière, they have brought wide-ranging skills, experience and cultural richness to Australia.
See also
African Australians
American Australians
Arab Australians
Asian Australians
Black Australians
European Australians
Indigenous Australians
North African and Middle Eastern Australians
References
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West Indian Literature Conference (CFP) – The Caribbean Commons
The Australians congratulate themselves after beating West Indies ...
West Indies & The Caribbean
West Indies & The Caribbean
How to spot a West Indian outside of the West Indies – Bene Caribe
Cocktail conversations: West Indian Vs Caribbean - The Economic Times
Picture Of The Caribbean Islands West Indies
A Caribbean Color Palette – Australian home of West Indies Wear
Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Islands
Legacy Of The Carib Indians In The Caribbean
Olan Negus — The Caribbean East Indians, Part 1 of 2
LIVING THE COLUMBIAN LIE: I AM NOT A WEST INDIAN - The Howlers
