Taiwanese Australians
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 46,822+ (Taiwanese-born at 2016 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Brisbane · Sydney · Melbourne | |
| Languages | |
| Australian English · Taiwanese Mandarin · Taiwanese Hokkien · Taiwanese Hakka · Varieties of Chinese · Formosan languages | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhism · Christianity · Chinese folk religion · Freethinking · Taoism · Other |
Taiwanese Australians are Australian citizens of Taiwanese ancestry or Taiwan-born people who reside in Australia. This term also sometimes broadly applies to those whose parents or relatives are associated with the post-1949 Republic of China as well as pre-1949 Chinese people in Australia who recognise themselves as ROC citizens (like the Chinese in the United States) before the communist revolution.
The exact number of Taiwanese Australians is hard to calculate since most demographic research tends to clump immigrants from People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, into the broadly defined "Chinese Australian" category as both the governments of People's Republic of China and Australia force Taiwanese Australians as a subgroup of Chinese Australians due to the 'One China Policy' adopted by the Australian government with the recognition of the People's Republic of China in 1972 as Republic of China was ousted by majority of Member States of the United Nations General Assembly voting in United Nations Resolution 2758. This has consequently been a subject of controversy especially with those of the Pan-Green coalition in Taiwan that advocates Taiwan independence, that contradicts Australia's One China Policy to the island of Taiwan with recognition of People's Republic of China as the sole government of China that Taiwan is a part of China, and One China Policy adopted by Australia is different from the perspective of the United States that Australia does not have a "Taiwan Relations Act", but Australia does have a (number of) domestic Racial Equality-related Act(s) since Multiculturalism of Australia after the era of White Australia Policy from 1980's onwards as Australia was preparing to integrate in Asia, therefore, the term Taiwanese Australian officially refers to the Asian community in Australia although there is split identity in Taiwan all people with Taiwanese citizenship or background are regarded as Taiwanese/Formosan. At the 2016 census, 46,882 people declared they were born in Taiwan.
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