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Fact Check: ARE ITALIANS THE SAME RACE AS AUSRAILAINS

“ARE ITALIANS THE SAME RACE AS AUSRAILAINS”
Not the same
Confidence: High Checked on August 13, 2026

Summary

Italians belong to a European Mediterranean ethnic group with a genetic profile distinct from that of Australians, whose population is a mix of Indigenous peoples with deep, separate ancestry and later immigrants from many continents. Consequently, Italians and Australians are not the same race.

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  • Italy | naa.gov.au

    In the 2021 Census, 1,108,364 Australians self-identified as having Italian ancestry.

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  • Italian Australians - Wikipedia

    As O'Connor reports in his work on the first Italian settlements, when Italians began to compete with Britons for work on the Kalgoorlie goldfields, the Parliament was warned that they, along with Greeks and Hungarians, "had become a greater pest in the United States than the coloured races". In other words, during the 1890s, a political and social alliance was formed between the Australian ...

  • Australians - Wikipedia

    The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on race, but asks each Australian resident to nominate up to two ancestries each census. These ancestry responses are classified into broad standardised ancestry groups.

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