Fascinated by the cluster of Australian, British and South African. As an Australian living in UK, I hear an enormous difference between these accents - even just in the British ones, the Yorkshireman and the Geordie stick out like a sore thumb to me - the narcissism of small differences perhaps. Interestingly, my partner, who is from England, often says, of various Australians we hear (either on TV or my friends), that they sound British to her. I, meanwhile, can pick an Australian from very few words. What are we hearing differently? It is a mystery to me.