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| At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:{{refn|group="N"|As a percentage of 199,426 persons who nominated their ancestry at the 2016 census.}}<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au" /><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au" /> <!-- Only ancestries with >1% are listed. Do not use the QuickStats data from ABS for ancestries. Use the full ancestry data series (eg from ABS Community Profiles series) as the QuickStats data shows each ancestry as a percentage of all ancestry responses (where each person can list up to two, thus a far greater number than the total population) while the full data series in the ABS Community Profiles show the percentage of people nominating a given ancestry as a percentage of the population who nominated an ancestry -->
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| * [[Indigenous Australians|Indigenous]] (30.3%){{refn|group="N"|Of any ancestry. Includes those identifying as [[Aboriginal Australians]] or [[Torres Strait Islanders]]. Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.}}
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| * [[Australians|Australian]] (28.1%){{refn|group="N"|The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry are part of the [[Anglo-Celtic Australian|Anglo-Celtic]] group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/49f609c83cf34d69ca2569de0025c182!OpenDocument|title=Feature Article - Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Australia (Feature Article)|first=c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of|last=Statistics|website=www.abs.gov.au|date=January 1995}}</ref>}}
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| * [[English Australians|English]] (27.5%)
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| * [[Irish Australians|Irish]] (9.3%)
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| * [[Scottish Australians|Scottish]] (7.5%)
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| * [[German Australians|German]] (4.4%)
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| * [[Filipino Australians|Filipino]] (3.5%)
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| * [[Chinese Australians|Chinese]] (3.1%)
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| * [[Indian Australians|Indian]] (2.3%)
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| * [[Italian Australians|Italian]] (2.1%)
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| * [[Greek Australian|Greek]] (2%)
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| * [[Dutch Australians|Dutch]] (1.3%)
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| 31.2% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from the [[Philippines]] (2.6%), [[England]] (2.4%), [[New Zealand]] (2%), [[India]] (1.6%) and [[Greece]] (0.6%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au" /><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au" /> | | 31.2% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from the [[Philippines]] (2.6%), [[England]] (2.4%), [[New Zealand]] (2%), [[India]] (1.6%) and [[Greece]] (0.6%).<ref name="quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au" /><ref name="censusdata.abs.gov.au" /> |