I wonder if there’s any information on how the Australian dialect (if there was any) was accepted when it was still a penal colony? Cockney would also be a gre

I wonder if there’s any information on how the Australian dialect (if there was any) was accepted when it was still a penal colony? Cockney would also be a great comparison as both it and AAVE can be seen as class signifiers while the Australian dialect currently isn’t.