Australia is as much a melting pot as the USA. Both countries were orignally
colonised by the English, and hte native peoples very badly treated in the
process.

Australia was orignally a penal colony for the British, and therefore many
of the early Buropeans here were Irish (because the Irish tended to get
arrested alot in Britain at the time), and Australia did have a "white
Australia Policy" up to the 1950's. But since WW2, there has been a deluge
of immigrants from all around the world, the first "wave" being Mediteranean
(in the 50's and 60's), South East Asian in the 70's and 80's and more
recently, people from the Middle East.

I live in a City that is ethincally diverse, thanks to the Steelworks
sponsoring immigrant workers to come to Australia. Its also a university
town, so we get alot of overseas students. But the further from the big
cities you go, the less multicultural it seems to get. Now days people are
proud to have a convict ancestor.

But yes, the majority of Australians have ancestors from the UK and/or
Ireland.

Yowie