How Hinduism And Sikhism Became Two Of Australia's Fastest Growing Faiths

How Hinduism And Sikhism Became Two Of Australia's Fastest Growing Faiths

On the night of the 2021 Census, 684,002 people in Australia recorded their religion as Hindu, and about 210,400 recorded it as Sikh. Five years earlier those figures had stood at 440,300 and 125,900. Two traditions carried to Australia largely by migrants from India and Nepal had become among the fastest growing faiths in the country, at a moment when the census counted fewer Christians and more people of no religion than at any time in its rec…