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Bosnian Australians
Total population
	39,440 (by birth, 2011); 20,247 (by ancestry, 2011)
Regions with significant populations
	Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane
Languages
	Australian English · Bosnian
Religion
	Sunni Islam, Orthodox Christianity

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Bosnian Australians are Australian citizens of Bosnian ancestry or Bosnia and Herzegovina-born people who reside in Australia. According to the 2011 Australian census 39,440 Australians were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[2]

History

There have been three major influxes of Bosnians to Australia. The first period occurred in the aftermath of World War II, and the second occurred in the late 1960s/early 1970s following an economic depression and open border policy in the former Yugoslavia.

The most recent wave of migration was during the 1990s when many Bosnians sought refuge from the Bosnian War. This migration was assisted under the refugee scheme of the Red Cross in Australia.

Bosnian migrants who arrived in Australia in the 1960s made important contributions to modern-day Australia through their role in the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in New South Wales.

Religion

The majority of Bosnians that arrived in Australia are Muslim, with a fewer number having Orthodox and Catholic backgrounds. Some Bosnians are inter-ethnic with some having interfaith marriages. The recent war in the 1990s created a situation where sensitivity is required in relation to ethnicity for self-identification and language spoken.

Communities

Bosnian Australians mainly live in New South Wales and Victoria, especially in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne they reside mostly in the City of Greater Dandenong and in Sydney mostly in Liverpool and Fairfield.

The Bosnian community in Queensland is centered around Logan Central in Southeast Queensland.

Perth's vibrant Bosnian community are predominantly located in and around the City of Swan.

Media

Radio

Currently in Sydney and Melbourne SBS Radio broadcasts in the Bosnian language for an hour a day. Other community stations such as 3ZZZ and 4EB also broadcast in Bosnian.

Sport

FC Bossy Liverpool

Notable Bosnian Australians

Almir Pandzo, handball player
Ajdin Hrustic, soccer player
Azra Hadzic, tennis player
Andreja Pejic, model
Bernard Tomic, tennis player
Ed Husic, politician, Member for Chifley
Reshad Strik, actor
Husein Alicajic, filmmaker
Dino Djulbic, soccer player
Dijana Alić, academic
Inga Peulich, politician
Ned Catic, former professional rugby league footballer
Omar Jasika, tennis player
Milica Ilic, guitarist
Monika Radulovic, model
Esma Voloder, model

Notes

^ "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Australian Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
^ "Migration, Australia, 2011–12 and 2012–13" (XLS). Australian Bureau of Statistics. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013. (table 9.1 of downloadable XL file: "Estimated resident population, Country of birth, State/territory, Age and sex – 30 June 2011")

External links

[1] "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Australian Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2015-03-19.

[abs34120_2013-2] "Migration, Australia, 2011–12 and 2012–13" (XLS). Australian Bureau of Statistics. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013. (table 9.1 of downloadable XL file: "Estimated resident population, Country of birth, State/territory, Age and sex – 30 June 2011")

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-Bosnian Australians mainly live in [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], especially in the cities of [[Melbourne]] and [[Sydney]]. In Melbourne they reside mostly in the [[City of Greater Dandenong]] and in Sydney mostly in [[Liverpool, New South Wales|Liverpool]] and [[Fairfielf, New South Wales|Fairfield]].
+Bosnian Australians mainly live in [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], especially in the cities of [[Melbourne]] and [[Sydney]]. In Melbourne they reside mostly in the [[City of Greater Dandenong]] and in Sydney mostly in [[Liverpool, New South Wales|Liverpool]] and [[Fairfield, New South Wales|Fairfield]].
 The Bosnian community in [[Queensland]] is centered around [[Logan Central]] in Southeast Queensland.

v t e Bosniak diaspora
Europe	Austria Croatia Kosovo Montenegro North Macedonia Serbia Slovenia
Asia	Arab World (Syria) Turkey
Americas	Canada United States
Oceania	Australia

v t e Ancestry of Australians
Ancestral background of Australian citizens
Indigenous	Aboriginal Australians Torres Strait Islanders
Africa	Angolan Beninese Burundian Cameroonian Congolese Eritrean Ethiopian Gabonese Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Ivorian Kenyan Liberian Malawian Malian Mauritian Nigerian Rwandan Senegalese Sierra Leonean South African Tanzanian Togolese Ugandan Zambian Zimbabwean
Americas	American Canadian Caribbean and West Indian Australian Hispanic and Latin American Argentine Bolivian Brazilian Chilean Colombian Cuban Ecuadorian Guatemalan Honduran Mexican Panamanian Paraguayan Peruvian Puerto Rican Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan Jamaican Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Asia	Afghan Hazara Pashtun Armenian Azerbaijani Bangladeshi Bengali Bhutanese Burmese Chin Karen Mon Cambodian Chinese Hmong Hong Kong Cantonese Mien Taiwanese Hakka Fuzhou/Hokchiu Hoklo Tibetan Uyghur East Timorese Filipino Georgian Indian Bengali Gujarati Indo-Fijian Malayali Punjabi Sindhi Tamil Telugu Indonesian Acehnese Balinese Javanese Madurese Sundanese Japanese Kazakh Korean Kyrgyz Laotian Malaysian Bruneian Kadazan Temoq Maldivian Mongolian Nepali Pakistani Baloch Hazara Pashtun Punjabi Sindhi Pathan Singaporean Sri Lankan Tamil Tajik Tatar Thai Turkmen Uzbek Vietnamese Hmong Mien
Europe	Albanian Anglo-Celtic Cornish English Irish Northern Irish Scottish Welsh Austrian Belgian Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot Czech Danish Dutch Estonian French Finnish German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Italian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maltese Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romani Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swedish Swiss Ukrainian
Middle East and North Africa	Arab Algerian Bahraini Egyptian Emirati Iraqi Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Libyan Moroccan Palestinian Saudi Somali Syrian Tunisian Assyrian Bari Berber Coptic Chaldean Darfur Dinka Iranian Israeli/Jewish Kurdish Mandaean Nubian Nuer South Sudanese Sudanese Turkish Yezidi
Oceania	Fijian Indo-Fijian Niuean Ni-Vanuatu New Zealander Māori Papua New Guinean Samoan South Sea Islander Tongan
according to Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012–2013 and Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016