The following link sums things up rather well:

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/news/speeches/australian-identity

What Australian identity?

There is no longer a stereotypical Australian they we can point to and say "He's an Australian."

We now have to identify people as being racially determined: He's a Chinese-Australia, I'm an Indian-Australia, she's a White-Australian.

"Yes, it's on the other side of the road, just left of where that African-Australian is standing."

But don't ever make the mistake of referring to someone by race . . . That's racist!

What Australian identity?

You do jest Mr O,

What about Sir Les Patterson, white male, knighted by the Queen of another country, a sleazy politician, loved meat pies, beer gut, hated sheilas. Who could come close to Sir Les, maybe Arthur Dunger, Barry Mackenzie, Dame Edna, count him out straight away, a bloke dressed up as a sheila. Little Johnny Howard? Only when he wore his green and gold Aussie tracky dacks.

P.s to the Forum Old Farts; Don't forget Tracky Dacks Day this year August 27th, come hell or high water, covid or World War Three, come Tracky Dacks Day I expect all you Old Farts to be dressed appropriately in your K-Mart $12 trackies, 2 sizes to small of course, with a discreetly exposed bum-crack, naturally wearing thongs on your clod hoppers! I hear you fellas say; "So what's the special dress for TD Day? Down at Shady Pines we dress like that everyday! Remember the Shady Pines motto "No Chicks Allowed!"

Dear Jack,

"I am exploring preferences for Australian identity."

"Identity" means that A and B are one and the same.
A is just A, it never preferred to be B nor can it change that simple fact.

Our biggest mistake and malady is when we try to identify with something that is not ourselves. We are already who we are and we remain who we are regardless, whether or not we mentally identify ourselves with anything.

Identity cannot be changed. Had we indeed been identically Australian, then nothing could change that fact, whether we recognised it or not, whether we liked it or not. If that were the case, then we would have been Australian long before we were born and would remain Australian long after we die, in fact long before Australia was separated from Gondwana and long after this planet will be melted and swallowed by the red-giant sun.

So please do not mislead others into identifying with anything that they are not. Whatever it is that you wish to explore, you should do better and obtain clearer results by changing the title of your research and survey to reflect accurately what it is.

Maybe we could make LNP deviant the Australian identity.

Just look for the guy rubbing his crutch up against an office desk and mumbling "Come on baby, come on Baby."

I must add that after the last 3 posts, if that lot are Australians, would you want to be identified as one?