Australian English

Australian English variation

Although Australian English is relatively homogeneous, some regional variations are notable.

The dialects of English spoken in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria, Queensland and the Torres Strait islands differ slightly from each other and from the English spoken in New South Wales. Differences in terms of vocabulary and phonology exist.

Most regional differences come down to word usage. For example, swimming clothes are known as cossies or swimmers in New South Wales, togs in Queensland, and bathers in Victoria and South Australia. The word footy generally refers to the most popular football code in the particular state or territory; that is, rugby league in New South Wales and Queensland, and Australian rules football elsewhere. Beer glasses are also named differently in different states. Distinctive grammatical patterns exist such as the use of the interrogative eh?.

There are some notable regional variations in the pronunciations of certain words. 

This phonological development is more advanced in South Australia, which had a different settlement chronology and type than other parts of the country. 

L-vocalisation is also more common in South Australia than other states. In Western Australian English the vowels in near and square are typically realised as centring diphthongs, whereas in the eastern states they may also be realised as monophthongs. A feature common in Victorian English is salary–celery merger. 

There is also regional variation in /u:/ before /l/.

Here you are a comedian video about the AusE accent in different places: