A colour that dare not speak its name

Presumably the BBC means “non-descript white” in the sidebar on ancestry here, because the last time I looked the rest of the people listed were also Australians:

“Total population: 21 million

Australian: 6.7m (38.7%)

English: 6.4m (36.5%)

Irish: 1.9m (11%)

Italian: 800,000 (4.6%)

German: 742,000 (4.3%)

Chinese: 557,000 (3.2%)

Greek: 376,000 (2.2%)

Dutch: 269,000 (1.5%)

Lebanese: 162,000 (0.9%)

Indian: 157,000

Vietnamese: 157,000 (0.9%)”

Note that this is an ancestry table, not an immigration table, where it might be appropriate to distinguish between Australian-born and others.

Last time I looked, Aborigines made up 2.4% of Australia’s population. Why on earth have they been ignored?