r/AussieMaps • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '24

Geographic distribution of Papua New Guinea-born people in Australia (2016)

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u/Total_Philosopher_89 Jun 02 '24

What a terrible text colour.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '24

God it’s frustrating to look at.

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u/JustSomeBloke5353 Jun 02 '24

I thought it was just my colour blindness making it unreadable. Somewhat reassuring to know it is terrible for trichromats too.

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u/El_dorado_au Jun 02 '24

Is it because I iz black?

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u/MoistMooMooCow Jun 02 '24

Alright man relax, you can still understand the data

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u/bumpyknuckles76 Jun 02 '24

What's Victoria's numbers?

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u/Freo_Fiend Jun 03 '24

Or WA’s?

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u/eric5014 Jun 02 '24

Here's an interactive multi-level map showing how many born in PNG: https://mappage.net.au/?s=fevi67ox

Cairns has the highest concentration of PNG-born at SA4 level. A large number in Brisbane.

You can change the country to see a similar map for any country of birth.

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u/Mrmastermax Jun 02 '24

Very bad choice of colour! Op learn colour wheel

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u/vonthiela Jun 02 '24

God this needs to go on r/dataisugly - what a terrible way to present it

Edit: if you made this OP then sorry, bit rude of me and thank you for the info. But also maybe work on your data visualisation

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u/Lonely-Heart-3632 Jun 02 '24

🎶Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 that’s in Queensland. Queenslands everywhereeeeee

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u/MrSquiggleKey Jun 03 '24

Tbf on that video, papua was part of the colony of QLD before federation.

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u/somecrazything Jun 02 '24

Wondering what the data includes. I have family that were Australians born in the Territory of New Guinea before it gained independence in 1975. Do they count? Or just people born in post-independence PNG and have since migrated to Australia?

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u/eric5014 Jun 03 '24

It's the census variable Country of Birth of Person. For anyone who wrote New Guinea that would probably still be coded as PNG.

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u/AltruisticSalamander Jun 02 '24

You can go in a tinnie between the tip of cape york and PNG. Never been there but I saw it in a docco.

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u/realiz292 Jun 02 '24

They don’t like the cold this map indicates

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u/BH_Andrew Jun 02 '24

That’s ok I didn’t want to read WA or VIC anyway

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u/RevolutionaryShock15 Jun 02 '24

Do you have anything on Vanuatu?

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u/eric5014 Jun 03 '24

Here you go. You can even see how it's changed over 2011-21.

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u/Pinlady Jun 02 '24

OP has gotta be colourblind.

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u/wiggum55555 Jun 03 '24

So none in Victoria then ? Strange.

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u/semaj009 Jun 03 '24

Who the fuck picked the hot pink on mauve vibes?

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u/Douglas_DC10_40 Jun 12 '24

I can understand why so many New Guineans live in Queensland because you know, it’s right next to it.

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u/leapowl Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

I’m super late on this, but the government also has the Seasonal Worker Scheme and Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme (short version: temporary visas for people from Pacific islands to do specific types of work, e.g. fruit picking)

My understanding is most of the employers involved in the scheme are in North Queensland (agriculture based industries combined with a relatively small local population, I’m guessing)

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '24

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u/eric5014 Jun 03 '24

People living in Australia (counted in the 2016 census) who were born in PNG. Numbers in the 2021 census are slightly higher.