Chinese Australians
As a whole, Australian residents identifying themselves as having Chinese ancestry made up 5.6% of those nominating their ancestry at the 2016 census and numbered 1,213,903. At the 2016 census, 509,555 people declared that they were born in Mainland China, 86,886 declared that they were born in Hong Kong, while 46,882 declared that they were born in Taiwan. There are also a large number of persons of Chinese ancestry among those born in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Taiwanese Australians
Overall, it would seem, at first, that Taiwanese people have only started coming to Australia since 1973, when the White Australia Policy was abolished. The current Taiwanese community in Australia is decently large, at roughly 45,000–55,000 people, but it is also very young. 95 to 90% of Taiwanese Australians are first-generation (meaning that they migrated to Australia) or second-generation (meaning that their parents migrated to Australia). A possible extra 9.9 to 4.98% of Taiwanese Australians are third-generation, meaning that their grandparents migrated to Australia. Roughly 0.01 to 0.02% of Taiwanese Australians, which is roughly 20–50 people, are fourth-generation, meaning that their great-grandparents migrated to Australia. The number of fifth-generation Taiwanese Australians is currently believed to be 0%, though this will definitely change in a few years from now.