The accent can vary from a light almost English or even mid Atlantic style through to a very broad "ocker/bogan" style. But that doesn't really track to a location. You're more likely to pick up on them using different words for the same thing than picking up specifically by accent. Potato scallops, cossies, for example
Guess where I'm from π
Judging by "cossies", I'm thinking Mexican?
Sydney?
You can spot a WAssie by how they pronounce words ending in L sounds.
It disappears. Thereβs still a vowel sound but itβs more like a soft W. Miβwβk instead of milk.
No idea why, but when I moved to the east coast people thought I was Irish. So maybe there is a bit of an accent, from the north at least.
I'm not expert, but i assume it's the same as anywhere else.
I live in Quebec, a cousin of mine goes to a French school in Montreal. She struggles understand my Grandmother when she speaks French, and she only lives 2hrs away in the country.
In theory the accent should be the same, but it's not. It's just different enough.