Take a taxi from Sydney Airport and chances are that the driver will not say “G’day” with the broad accent you might expect. Probe a little further and you will probably   1  that he was not born in Australia.   2  the United States, Australia is a society of   3 , and Sydney has been a preferred destination for many of these new   4 . Over the past half century the Anglo-Irish immigrants who   5  the city’s original population have been joined by successive waves of Italians, Greeks, Turks, Lebanese, and , more   6 , Asians. This mixture has   7 a cultural activeness and energy that were missing only a generation   8 . Sydney is a city   9  .