IMPORTANCE OF XATIONALITY. 



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E< 



E 



A ^^ 5 ^4 Eg S2 



A< 



Australian born. 



One parent immigrant. 



A< s 



A ^ £ As S2 E2 



A<E 



Australian born. 



Of Australian-born parents. 



A< A 

 A< 1 A,, 



"^ A 



All grandparents Australian born. 



It is worthy of note that these queries were in the great 

 majority of cases answered satisfactorily by parents. Very few 

 of the cards were not returned filled in, say less than 1 per cent., 

 and as this includes a number of boarded-out children the total 

 of refusals is a very small one. 



children are born in Australia of Australian-born parents, while 

 only one in ten are the children born in Australia of parents born 

 outside Australia or immigrants. This is probably a reversal of the 

 conditions in our schools within only 10 to 15 years ago. 



This table throws an important light on the controversy 

 mentioned, as it shows that the majority of those whom we really 

 can call wholly Australian — the children born in Australia of 

 Australian-born parents — -are at present in our schools, and have 

 scarcely appeared in any number among the general population. 

 If I am right in regarding them as the first fruits of the Australian 

 nation, then aU this talk about the Australian characteristics, 



* At least one grandparent Australian born. 



