Australia - Introduction

There has been a strong bond between the University of Oxford and Australia since the first European settlement of the continent. In fact, many of the original settlers and colonists were Oxonians, among them John Garrett Bussell, a prominent settler and Sir Richard Bourke, governor of New South Wales from 1831-1837. Today a striking number of top Australian students and scholars find their way to Oxford: with a population of just twenty million, Australia is Oxford's fifth-largest source of students (276) and sixth largest source of academic staff (127).