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QUEENSLANDERS make "eh" while the sun shines, South Australia has its OAFish ways, and nothing is more distinct than the buried cockney of Perth or the Toorakian Honk in Melbourne. What kind of regional accent and oddities of diction can be found in what the Croweaters call "New South Wayoos"? Do we subscribe to the subliminal feeling of "local's" that the premier state is really Australia and the rest of the country is What Fails Away?
"Dreadful vulgar place, Australia," claimed the Duchess of Berwick in a play by the much-puffed Oscar "Straight to Video" Wilde. Nothing, it seems, will prevent producers from making fills that flop from Wilde's rubbish, but the ...