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Are the Australian Religious...Christians?

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English: Uniting church at Hamilton, Victoria (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Catholics   5,439,268 No religion 4,796,787 Anglican 3,679,907 Uniting Church   1,065,795 Presbyterian and Reformed  599,515 Hindu  275,535 People professing to have no religion have moved past Anglicans to become the second-largest grouping after Catholics in the 2011 Census. Almost 4.8 million people said they had no religion, up 29 per cent from 2006, but the number of people not answering the question dropped by 2 per cent. This suggested that more people were claiming a religious identity (including no religion), said Monash University sociology professor Gary Bouma. Advertisement: Story continues below The total Christian population is 13.2 million, or 61 per cent, down three percentage points. Catholics have dropped half a percentage point to 25.3 or 5.4 million, Anglicans are down 1.6 percentage points to 3.7 million, while the Uniting Church is down to 5 per cent, or 1.1 million p