Danish Australians

There was some Danish immigration at the time of the Australian gold rushes. It was estimated that there were 1,000 Danes on the Victorian goldfields.{{citation|last=|chapter=Danes|pages = 252 – |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA252|editor-last=Jupp|editor-first=James|title=The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-521-80789-0}} Danish immigrants had a significant effect on the Australian dairy industry from the 1880s, in particular establishing and managing butter factories.

During the 1870s, a number of East Prussian and Danish Lutherans arrived in Tasmania. Most of them settled in the farming district of Bismarck, attracted by the cheap land and an abundance of clean water. The area was declared a town in 1881.Webb, Kerry: [http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/scanlink/nornotes/vol7/articles/frederikandmary.html Rallying the Danes: Prince Frederik of Denmark] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209071430/http://socsci.flinders.edu.au/scanlink/nornotes/vol7/articles/frederikandmary.html |date=9 February 2009 }}, Nordic Notes (Flinders University), 2003.

Lutheranism was very slow to establish in Tasmania. Due to the absence of a Lutheran church, some of the Germans in Bismarck joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which arrived in the region in 1889.[http://www.utas.edu.au/lib/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Seventh.htm]{{Dead link|date=July 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}[http://collinsvale.adventist.org.au/collinsvale-church-history Collinsvale Seventh-day Adventist Church - Collinsvale Church History] A Lutheran church was finally opened in Hobart on 11 August 1871[http://gravesoftas.dyndns.org/Graves%20of%20Tasmania/Church%20History/st__peter%27s_lutheran_church_hobart.htm]{{Dead link|date=July 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} and remains active today{{Cite web |url=http://www.stpetershobart.org.au/index.html |title=St Peter's Lutheran Church |access-date=20 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410062447/http://stpetershobart.org.au/index.html |archive-date=10 April 2013 |url-status=dead }} but none was ever built in Bismarck.

There was little emigration from Denmark to Australia in the first half of the twentieth century: in 1901, Australia had a population of 6,281 people who had been born in Denmark; in 1947, that number had slackened to 2,759. At both counts, the population was approximately 75% male. Danish men married women of other ethnicities in Australia, which made it harder for the community to maintain its identity.

Danish citizens were within the scope of Australia's Post-war immigration scheme. From a population of 2,954 Danish Australians in 1954, there were 7,911 Danes living in Australia in 1981. Masculinity ratios were healthier, with 58% of these being males.

At the 2006 Census, 8,963 Australian residents declared they were born in Denmark.{{Cite web |url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/download?format=xls&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Country |title=of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex&producttype=Census Tables&method=Place of Usual Residence&areacode=0 ABS Census - Country of Birth, 2006 |access-date=15 April 2008 |archive-date=2 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902012427/http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/download?format=xls&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Country |url-status=dead }} In addition, 50,413 Australian residents claimed Danish ancestry, either singularly or with another ancestry.{{Cite web |url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/download?format=xls&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&areacode=0 |title=ABS Census - ethnicity, 2006 |access-date=15 April 2008 |archive-date=22 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722065340/http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/download?format=xls&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&areacode=0 |url-status=dead }}{{verify source|date=February 2017|reason=Links don't lead to any tables. Also, ethnicity isn't the sama as ancestry}}

There is a Danish Australian Cultural Society.{{Cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dacs/?q=node |title=Danish Australian Cultural Society |access-date=20 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007071658/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dacs/?q=node |archive-date=7 October 2012 |url-status=dead }} The Australian Danish community has been written about in books.[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&safe=active&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS256US257&q=%22Danish%20community%22%20Australia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp "Danish community" Australia - Google Search]

The Danish Royal Life Guards have a chapter of their veterans association in Australia.[http://www.garderforeningerne.dk/lokalforeninger/region-vi/australiens-garderforening/ Australiens Garderforening]

• Australia–Denmark relations
• Collinsvale, Tasmania
• Scandinavian Australians
• Anglo-Celtic Australians
• Danish diaspora

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• [http://www.dacs.org.au Danish Australian Cultural Society]

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