Before I moved to Australia from NZ, I always though of the Australian accent as your typical Ocker Steve Irwin accent. That's the Aussie accent we use in NZ to

Before I moved to Australia from NZ, I always though of the Australian accent as your typical Ocker Steve Irwin accent. That's the Aussie accent we use in NZ to take the piss out of Aussies. I've since moved to Melbourne, and in under a year, nobody even thinks I'm not an Aussie. The inner-city Melbourne accent is so similar to the Kiwi accent. All I had to do was start saying 'feesh and cheeps' instead of 'fush and chups' and I was 90% of the way there. The other 10% has been picking up the slang. No way am I going to start calling jandals thongs though. That's just odd.