 Portuguese-language radio programs, weekly newspapers, language classes and sporting clubs help maintain the community in Australian cities.Events such as performances by Madeira folk dancing provide an opportunity for the wider community to appreciate Portuguese culture.Portuguese migrants from the islands of Madeira settled in Fremantle in Western Australia in the 1950s and established a fishing community which, by the mid-1980s, had grown to about 6,000 people, including their descendants.