The majority of Slovenes living in Australia today (according to the estimates some 25,000) moved to the fifth continent after the Second World War. Among the first were political refugees, followed in the 1950s and 1960s by economic émigrés. After an initial stay in collection centres, they settled throughout the entire continent, from Western and South Australia to the Northern Territory. In the 1950s, many worked on the construction of the famous Snowy Mountains hydroelectric power station project. Later they found employment in industry, construction, in mines, iron works and such like. Before long, many became financially independent by setting themselves up as independent entrepreneurs (the best known among them is Dusan Lajovic, the owner of the multinational Impact International Group). Some also made a breakthrough onto the Australian political scene (Misa Lajovic was the first Australian of nonEnglish origin to became a senator; Tanya Plibersek, who has Slovene parents, is currently a member of parliament). Australian Slovenes were able to make full use of all the opportunities provided by Australia's multicultural policy. There are Slovene societies and religious centres in all large cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and others) with their own premises for socialising; they organise numerous activities, supplementary Slovene education, have choirs, folklore groups, sports and hunting sections, etc. Throughout Australia, radio broadcasts in Slovene can be heard on the national SBS network; lately there has been a growing number of Slovene language TV broadcasts shown by local cable networks. Several Slovene language newspapers are published on a regular or periodical basis; some of them for the entire Australia (like Misli monthly or Glas Slovenije fortnightly). The Slovene language is granted the status of a matriculation subject in a number of state colleges (in Victoria, New South Wales). Australian Slovenes have libraries which house rich selections of books in Slovene. A number of Australian Slovenes has published their own works of fiction, non-fiction or expert subjects in Slovene or in English.