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Australians

vr.tr.australians · SOC.PER

Let an agent describe Australians as a national population with attribution, present demographics and identities with sources, respect Indigenous self-designations, and avoid stereotypes.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe Australians as a national population with attribution, present demographics and identities with sources, respect Indigenous self-designations, and avoid stereotypes.

The people of Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the continent Indigenous peoples, descendants of British and other European settlers, and migrants and their descendants from every region of the world, identified by citizenship, residence and self-identification and by state and territory identities such as Queenslanders or Victorians; Australians are described with attention to Indigenous self-designation and to census definitions.

What it is for: The people of Australia.

It can be describe the population and its diversity; present demographics with sources; respect Indigenous self-designations; avoid stereotypes.

Distinguishing features

National population

Indigenous and migrant diversity

State identities

Census-defined

What it looks like

Not a physical thing; a diverse national population.

How it is recognised

People of Australia by citizenship, residence or identity

Indigenous, settler and migrant heritage

Australian is a nationality, not an ethnicity

Related models

is a kind of - category

inhabitant

is related to - another entry on peoples

Greeks

is related to - Torres Strait Islander connections

Austronesian peoples

is related to - Australian studies

cultural studies

In practice

Families and kinds

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Australians of European descent

Australians of Asian, Middle Eastern, African and other descent

Australians by state and territory

Australians abroad

Standards and regulation

Australian census definitions

Citizenship law

Anti-discrimination law and Indigenous rights frameworks

Failure modes and hazards

Stereotyping

Erasing Indigenous peoples

Partisan presentation of contested histories

Also called

QueenslandersSouth AustraliansNew South WelshmenVictoriansWestern AustraliansTasmaniansNorthern TerritoriansAustralian Capital TerritoriansChristmas IslandersCocos IslandersNorfolk IslandersNorth African and Middle Eastern AustraliansRomanians in AustraliaEuropean AustraliansAfrican AustraliansArab AustraliansAsian AustraliansAustralians in ItalyAustralians in TurkeyBelgian AustralianLatin American AustraliansTongan AustraliansWelsh AustraliansScandinavian AustraliansLatvian AustraliansEstonian AustraliansLithuanian AustraliansSerbian AustraliansTurkish AustraliansBelarusian AustraliansMaltese AustraliansPolish AustraliansPortuguese AustraliansSpanish AustraliansNorth African AustraliansSouth African AustraliansJordanian AustraliansPalestinian AustralianPunjabi AustraliansVietnamese Australians

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Identity Who Australians are.

Respect.

Diversity

Diversity and identity.

Diversity

Diversity.

  1. Who are Australians in terms of Indigenous, settler and migrant heritage, and how do people identify, according to the census? provenance
  2. How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples describe themselves? provenance

States

State and regional identities.

States

States.

  1. What do identities such as Queenslander, Victorian or Tasmanian mean, and how are they used? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific group? action
History History of the population.

Attribution.

Past

Peopling of Australia.

Past

History.

  1. How do historians and Indigenous communities describe the history of Australia population, from Indigenous presence through colonisation to migration? provenance
  2. Are contested aspects attributed neutrally? boundary

Migration

Migration.

Migration

Migration.

  1. How has migration shaped Australia, according to official data and historians? provenance
  2. Which policies were significant, with positions attributed? provenance
Data Demographics.

Sources.

Census

Population data.

Census

Census.

  1. What are the population, ancestry and language figures for Australia, according to the census? provenance
  2. How are Indigenous Australians counted? provenance

Abroad

Australians abroad.

Abroad

Abroad.

  1. How many Australians live abroad, and what rights do they retain? provenance
  2. What are the limits of the data? boundary
Culture Culture and boundaries.

Respect.

Culture

Cultural life.

Culture

Culture.

  1. What are the cultural traditions and contributions of Australians, including Indigenous cultures, in their own terms? provenance
  2. Which institutions represent them? provenance

Boundaries

Harmful requests.

Boundaries

Boundaries.

  1. Is the request stereotyping or demeaning, which should be declined? boundary
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should Indigenous peoples be separate entries?
  • How should census data be linked?
  • How should contested histories be attributed?
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