The Poles of Australia, numbering approximately 53,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a West Slavic people of Central Europe whose culture has been shaped by Slavic heritage, Roman Catholic traditions, agricultural and urban communities, and a long history of statehood, foreign rule, and national resilience They are an Diaspora people, with Polish as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Slav, Western people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism. They primarily speak Polish.