Serbian Australians
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Sydney, Melbourne, Perth | |
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Australian English, Serbian | |
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Serbian Orthodox Church |
Serbian Australians are citizens of Australia who are of Serbian birth or descent. According to the 2016 census, there are 104,549 people in Australia who are of Serbian ancestry. Large Serbian communities and ethnic neighbourhoods can be found in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. There are many Serbian Australians that were born in today's Croatia as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, due to this they are recorded under those statistics. The Serbian Australians are one of the largest Serb diaspora communities.
History
Serbs have migrated to Australia in various waves during the 20th century. A wave of immigrants came during and after the World War II, the majority of whom were members of royalist Chetniks movement along with their families. Serbs were a large part of the immigrant community between 1948 and 1955. In 1951 the mostly pro-royalist Serbian communities founded a chapter of the Chicago-based Serbian National Defense Council in Sydney.[3] In 1954 there were 6,118 Yugoslav immigrants in Victoria. Many of those who settled in Victoria had worked in Western Europe (i.e. Germany) prior to coming. The 1961–1971 numbers increase to 49,755 people. After the Yugoslav Wars that broke the federal state of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) succeeded as a federal union.[4]
Demographics
The 2011 census recorded 69,544 people of Serbian ancestry[5], 55,114 (0.3%) of which were English and Serbian-speakers and 9,857 only Serbian-speakers.[5] The 2006 census recorded 95,362 people of Serbian ancestry.[5]
Estimations of the total number of ethnic Serbs (including by ancestry) vary between over 100,000,[6] c. 350,000.[7]
Notable people
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- Frank Arok – former soccer player and manager
- Milan Blagojevic – Australian national team soccer player
- Pedj Bojic – soccer player
- Nick Cotric - Rugby league player
- Milos Degenek – football player
- Bobby Despotovski – Australian national team soccer player
- Jelena Dokić – Tennis player
- Ivan Ergić – Serbian national team soccer player
- Tom Rogic – Australian national team soccer player and Celtic FC player
- Vedrana Grbovic – model
- Milan Ivanović – Australian national team soccer player
- Marko Jesic – soccer player
- Robert Jovicic – Immigration case
- Sam Kekovich – Media personality and sports commentator
- Aleks Marić – Australian national team basketball player
- Steven Marković – basketball player
- Zdravko Micevic – boxer
- Daniel Subotic – famous Melbourne socialite
- Jim Milisavljevic – soccer player
- Danny Milosevic – soccer player
- Dragan Durdevic – former Rugby League player
- Jake Trbojevic Rugby league player
- Tom Trbojevic Rugby league player
- Nik Mrdja – Australian national team soccer player
- Ralé Rašić – Order of Australia awarded media personality and former soccer player and Australia national team manager and administrator
- DJ Mish – National DJ, light and sound entertainer, major events organiser and has a sound lighting and entertainment production company
Dirty South – DJ, remixer and record producer
- Nikola Roganovic – soccer player
- Karl Stefanovic – TV presenter
- Vuko Tomasevic – soccer player
- Holly Valance (born Holly Vukadinović) – Singer, actress and model
- Olympia Valance – model and actress, Holly's half-sister
- Dragan Vasiljković – Best known as the founder and Captain of the Serbian paramilitary unit Knindže, but he was also worldwide weapons instructor, businessman and golf instructor
- Lazar Vidovic – retired Australian rules footballer
- Nick Vujicic – Accounting and Financial Planning graduate best known as preacher and motivational speaker.
- Danny Vukovic – Soccer player
- Sreten Božić aka B. Wongar – writer, author
- Ursula Yovich – actress and singer
- Lew Zivanovic – Rugby league player
- Valentina Novakovic – fictional
- Bojana Novakovic – actress
- Andrew Nikolic (born 1961), Australian former politician and retired senior Army officer
- Eli Babalj (born 1992), Bosnian-born Australian football player.
- Monika Radulovic (born 1990), Australian model, Miss Universe Australia 2015. Bosnian Serb parentage.[8]
- Vedrana Grbović, Serbian-born Australian model, Miss World Serbia 2006.[9]
- Andreja Pejic, Bosnian-born Australian transsexual model. Serb mother.[10]
- Nik Cubrilovic, Australian hacker and internet security expert.[11]
- Biljana Dekic, WIM represented Australia in 12 Women's Chess Olympiads
- Dusan Kecmanovic, psychiatrist, WHO fellowship (Institute of Psychiatry in London), Fulbright fellowship (Columbia University), member of the European Academies of Sciences and Arts[12]
See also
References
- ↑ "Fact sheet – Ancestry – Serbian". Abs.gov.au. 16 August 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ "Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection" (PDF). Immi.gov.au. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Stefanovic, D.S. (2002). "Serbs". In James Jupp. The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 678. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0.
- ↑ "Origins: History of immigration from Serbia – Immigration Museum, Melbourne Australia". Museumvictoria.com.au. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- 1 2 3 "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Department of Immigration and Border Protection. 2014: 59. ISBN 978-1-920996-23-9.
Ancestry
- ↑ "Manje Srba u Australiji?". Srpska Dijaspora. 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Palić, Svetlana (17 July 2011). "Četiri miliona Srba našlo uhlebljenje u inostranstvu". Blic. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
Australiji (130.000)
- ↑ "Srpkinja sa titulom Mis Australije: Upoznajte Moniku Radulović". Cosmopolitan.
- ↑ "Bivša Miss Srbije Vedrana Grbović: Đoković me nasmejao do suza!". Svet.
- ↑ "Naš Andrej je lep ko lutka!" [Our Andrej Is Beautiful Like a Doll!]. Alo! (in Serbian). 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 9 January 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ↑ "One Serb's Crusade Against his Privacy Being Invaded by Facebook". Britić.
- ↑ https://www.smh.com.au/national/eminent-psychiatrist-escaped-murderous-sarajevo-20140530-zrswl.html