We too may immigrate to SA-Adelaide area and are interested in this issue. We are a transracial family-white parents with 3 children through adoption. One child African American the other two girls from Ethiopia. Anyone willing to speak up on this issue??

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Australia has received considerable "flak" over the past couple of years about how it deals with new comers. You have probably seen press reports about the "Tampa" boat incident November 2001 and you may have heard of Pauline Hanson who was elected to Federal parliament, Canberra.
I think that you need to refer to the ABS Census data to get a better indicator of the racial mix of Australia. The sterotypical "White" Australia has long gone. The ABS data indicates that about 70% of people in Australia were born in Australia and only about 60% of them were born to parents who were also born in Australia. Australia is truely a multi-cultural society with all of the issues and problems that are associated with multi-culturalism, but on the whole things are okay, and once past the bureaucracy newcomers are welcomed into all facets of Australian Society.

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I am happy to concur with andrewcx's posting. We moved to Sydney from the UK 5 years ago. We bougt our house from a family born in Seoul, live next to a family of Hong Kong Chinese origin and two doors down from another couple of Brits. We also play host to students from Japan. Sydney really is very cosmopolitan, and we have only once witnessed and rascist 'incident' (a drunk on a train who was soon turned on by fellow passengeres of all colours!). That said, Sydney is the most cosmopolitan of Australian cities. Outside of the main capitals, the percentage of the 'true blue' anglo-saxon Aussie increases. Even in Sydney, there is a natural tendency for families to move into suburbs populated with people of similar backgrounds and cultures, be they Italian (Leichardt), Vietnamese (Cabramatta), Lebanese (Canterbury) or South African (St Ives).
I hope this helps.

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As an 'ex-Adelaide' resident, I found the city to be very accepting of all, including Asians.

There are Asian communities/groups, for support and networking, American associations and great schools -most of whom have many students from other nationalities - very culturally diverse, including Asians..

The people all mix, regardless, and there are a lot of inter-racial families, from all nationalities. There are a large number of Asian families.

Good luck, you'll enjoy Adelaide -very easy to get around, great cultural lifestyle and plenty to see and do.

Some great schools, are: Co-Ed - St Andrews, Pembroke, Scotch College; Boys - St Peters College, Prince AlfredCollege, Christian Brothers College; Girls - Wilderness Girls.

South Australian GOvernment schools website list- http://www.schools.sa.gov.au/schlparents/

South Australian Independent schools list - http://www.ais.sa.edu.au/html/home.asp (click on 'about our schools')

General Adelaide information: http://text.sacentral.sa.gov.au/education/organisations/

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I have posted a reply to priestma - does it help?

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As an African American living in Sydney for a year and a half, I found it more palatable than the collective 5 years I lived in the United States. I grew up in Japan and experienced a great deal of nationalistic racism there. Australia, based upon my limited perspective, by far exceeds the quality of life of most of the countries I have been to. I have been all over Asia Pacific, Europe, South/North America, etc.

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