Australian accents sound very similar to British accents to me, but I can detect some difference. To me they sound slightly cockney. My question is from what British dialects did Australian English evolve from, when can this divergence be considered to have taken place, and why does their seem to be little diversity in Australian accents?
hi! There's lots of room for more input on this, but fyi, there have been a couple of posts on Australian that may be of interest
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