Romanian-Australians
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Romanian-Australians may include those who have immigrated to Australia from Romania, and those born in Australia from Romanian ancestry. According to ABS (2001 census) figures, those identifying with some degree of Romanian ancestry number somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000, with 12,950 reporting as Romanian-born (but not necessarily all of Romanian ancestry)[1].
Romanians were for the first time registered in Australia more than 80 years ago. They were people that came there for working, missionaries, or seeking a more prosperous economic status. But the first wave of Romanian emmigrants in Australian was after the World War II, when Romania was experincing one of the worse economical problems in its history. The Romanians that were then emigrating to Australia came for economical or political reasons. They were principally spread in areas around Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The number of Romanian-Australians that came in the time to the Australian continent is estimated to be around 2,000 people.[citation needed]
The second wave of Romanian emigration to the Australian continent began after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, when the Communist Regime fell and the citizens received the right to get out of Romania. They came in large numbers for the same reasons as in the first time.
Today, the largest communities of Romanian-Australians can be found in the Sydney (14,000), Melbourne (15,000) and Brisbane (4,500).[citation needed]
[edit] Notable Romanian-Australians
- Harry Seidler, architect;
- Ioan Adrian Teaha, Academic Scholar
- Daniela Costian, Olympic bronze medalist;
- Ted Theodore, politician
- Mihai Maghiaru, president of the Romanian Australian Association;
- Augustin Luchian, leader of the Romanian-Australian Health & Welfare Organization;
- Frank Timiş, businessman
- Andrew Ilie, tennis player
- Dorin Baragan, composer
