Hmong-Australian Resource Page Hmoob Nyob Australia C O N T E N T Australia is now home for about 2000 Hmong from Laos. They are one of the newest and smallest ethnic group of the 18 million Australians. The former Prime Minister, the Hon. R.J.L. Hawke, summed up the first decade of the Australian Hmong as follows: Hmong Australians are one of the most recently arrived groups in this country.