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2011 Australian Census: Language Overview

Posted on 21 June 2012 by Mark Gwynn
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The details of the 2011 Australian census were released today. An interesting change from the last census (2006) is that Mandarin is now the second-most spoken language at home. In the last census it was Italian. What follows is a summary of language used at home as provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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