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
This history of Chinese immigration to Australia is only slightly relevant for modern Taiwanese Australians. Though many Taiwanese still have some connections to China, especially those Taiwanese Australians who have grown up surrounded by Chinese Australians, the history of Chinese Australians doesn't exactly cover the history of Taiwanese Australians very well. Additionally, the inspirational stories of Chinese heritage in Australia probably aren't too inspirational for most Taiwanese people, even for those who do identify as Chinese. Even those who do identify as Chinese still cannot avoid the fact that their families' histories have been intertwined with the history of Taiwan for the past 70 years or so. This is why so many (Taiwanese Waisheng/Mainlander) die-hard supporters of the KMT, which is pro-Reunification, still cling onto the Taiwanese identity.