The Australian Accent is renowned for its lack of regional differences.
- Roughly speaking, General accents represent the most common type of English spoken in Australia.
- Broad accents are usually described as more extreme (and associated with more working-class speech),
- While Cultivated Australian accents are a prestige variety somewhat closer to the British Received Pronunciation (although actual speakers of the latter are in the minority).
For a frame or reference, these corresponding celebrities might help:
- Broad: the late Steve Irwin.
- General: Australian PM Julia Gillard.
- Cultivated: Cate Blanchett. (Blanchett’s somewhat more “British-Sounding” accent may be a result of her being an actress, but her speech nonetheless resembles this type of elevated Australian speech).
Source link: http://dialectblog.com/2011/07/10/types-of-australian-accents/