Introduction

 ﻿ The current population of Australia is 22,409,582. About 20% of these Australians were born overseas. This means 80% were born in Australia. Does this surprise you?

In this webquest you will discover different aspects of Australian society and history to help you to understand the national community that you live in. If we are all to live peacefully together in the future, we need to make the effort to understand our own and other’s backgrounds.

If we each follow our own family backgrounds we will see that we all originate from countries both near and far. So just who exactly is Australian? Can one person be more Australian than another?  