‘Aye’ meaning It is usually tacked on to the end of sentences to finalize what you are saying to someone. It is often used for no reason at all. It’s apparently more commonly used by Queenslanders. Pronounced like Ay or simply the letter A.

Destroy/Break/Demolition/Destruction

Straya in British English (ˈstraɪə ) noun. Australian slang a jocular name for Australia.

It is considered impolite to ask a direct question about a person’s salary or wealth. Inquiring about someone’s weight or age is also highly inappropriate in many situations. Spitting in public is rude. Always say please when asking someone for help or a favour or you will come across as rude.

Australia is a continent, a country and an island! It is nicknamed the “Land Down Under” because it is below the equator. Australia is made up of six states and two territories but the only country in Australia is Australia! Australia is the smallest continent. The only country in Australia is Australia.

Pommy or Pom The terms Pommy, Pommie and Pom, in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand usually denotes an English person (or, less commonly, people from other parts of the UK). Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912.

Under the reciprocal healthcare arrangements, British citizens resident in the UK and travelling on a British passport are entitled to limited subsidised health services from Medicare for medically necessary treatment while visiting Australia.

The online wictionary.org defines a yobbo as: “(slang, Australia) Someone, usually a male, who is uncouth, badly behaved and obnoxious. The night before, some yobbos avoided a protective fringe of wooden bollards and managed to drive onto one of the fields.

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Either way, the word “wog” went out with Alf Garnett’s generation in Britain and is an almost inconceivably offensive term of abuse for blacks or Asians. Curiously, however, the term has metamorphosed in the Antipodes.

Julia Robinson, an editor and researcher at the Australian National Dictionary Centre, she described “heaps good” as an informal term used across Australia, rather than just by Croweaters. “Certainly, there does seem to be a perception that it’s a particularly South Australian expression,” she said.