Learn to say thanks where you'd normally say please.

When driving, be prepared to wait possibly a long while to enter a busy main road because it will occur to absolutely no-one to let you in.

Get used to people saying 'yes - no - yes' at the start of sentences, and be prepared for the spurious 'but....' at the end of sentences in Victoria eg "I went to the shops today, but." I used to wonder "but, what?" till I realised it was just an extra word that means nowt!

The yes/no combination in the same sentence is a common thing in the Afrikaans language.

Person A: "I'll see you at 5pm."

Person B: "Ah, yes well no, fine. See you then."

I seem to remember that the man who invented - I mean, identified - the Strine language reported the word yebbut. "Are you going out now?" "Yebbut. Not right away."

In our house, the favourite Strine word is bim-bye. "What's that red lump on your arm?" "It's a bimbye." In company, we would say "I was bitten by [a spider, or whatever]."

I probably should have registered my qualifications for writing about Strine. My wife and I were both born and brought up in Oz - she in Melbourne ("Mairlb'n") and I on the Darling Downs ("Dahlen Danns") - and both read The Book that introduced Strine to the world in the '60s. Every immigrant in Australia really should be required to be familiar with the language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferbeck_Lauder

In our house the favourite Strine word is 'egg nishner'.

It's been getting a workout recently.

Had to google that

Learning that despite what you may have heard in the northern hemisphere the hard shoulder/emergency lane of the motorway is actually a perfectly safe place to stop, cycle, smoke, wander about, socialise or just fiddle around with whatever load your vehicle is carrying/towing (and being Australian it WILL be something, as carting/towing piles of pointless old c*ap around is just part of the cul-cha).

Aussies whinge just as much as Poms do- but you are never allowed to tell them so......

I have told a few and they're usually lost for words - because they know its true

Yes, we use that, too. Nice to see someone posting from Sinny. I went to boarding school in Brizzie, and once went on a school trip to Air Delight which is a lovely little State capital. Mersten choiple!*** A friend and I drove down to Cambra once, which we found rather soulless.

*** Do I need to translate that? Pronounced "most enjoyable", in standard English.

But if the truth be known, almost all of 'Straya can seem rather soul-less. Saying that, "soul" is really what we put into it in terms of our relationships, the putting down of roots and making the most of where we are. Just driving through a town or city or taking a day-trip there doesn't really reveal it's "soul" - you need to live there to find that.

Ahh, sorry Paulry! But our trip was a long time ago - 1962, if I recall. Maybe it's gotten better since then - OR, maybe we did jump to the wrong conclusion! I'm too old now to go and check it out again.

It doesn't mean nowt, it means 'though'