Iraqi Australians are Australian citizens who identify themselves to be Iraqi descent.Since the 1991 Gulf War, thousands of Iraqis have found refuge in Australia. The total of population is estimated to be as high as 80,000.Australia's Iraqi-born population includes Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandeans, Turkmens and Jews.The first year in which the Australian Census of Population and Housing recorded the Iraq-born separately was 1976, when the population was 2,273.