Afrikaner Australians (Leo Australis)

Afrikaner Australians (also referred to as Boer Australians or Afrikaans Australians) are Australians of Afrikaner descent. About 1.8 million Australians cited this ancestry in the 2015 Australian census; the majority of them speak Afrikaans or Dutch at home. Australians of Afrikaans descent are most heavily concentrated in the Dutch Coast states, as well as New Wales and South Australia. Their ancestors mostly arrived in Australia from South Africa between 1840 and 1930, though some families became established as early as the 17th and 18th centuries.

The term Boer Australian may be used either in reference to nationality or ethnicity in regard to this population group. Afrikaner Australians, because of sharing latitude with South Africa, kept their language, culture, and religion alive much longer than any other ethnic group in the Pacific. Many "Boertown" neighborhoods developed in Australian cities, but gradually disappeared as their residents eventually assimilated into the Australian mainstream. A revival of the South African identity has taken place in the Outback states, where some families of Afrikaans descent have lived for many generations.

Origins of Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th and 18th centuries. Most Afrikaners are of Dutch descent and trace their origins to the provinces of North Holland, South Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Utrecht and Flanders. Other ethnic groups contributing to the construction of the Afrikaans identity include French Huguenots, Low Germans, Danes, Swedes, Flemings, Walloons, Malays, Javanese, Portuguese, Bantu peoples, Khoi peoples and Malagasy peoples.