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In an island roughly the size of the continental United States, Australia has a population of approximately 20,000,000, representing an increase of 13% since 1991. About 4,000,000 (20%) of the inhabitants were born overseas. Between 1995 and 2000, over 400,000 permanent settlers arrived in Australia. Twenty percent of the population speak a language at home other than English, including Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), and Greek (1.4%) (Yearbook Australia 2001).
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Nurcombe, B. (2004). Systems of Care in Australia. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., Goodyer, I. (eds) Facilitating Pathways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18611-0_6
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