Strine

Strine, also spelled Stryne, is Australian slang for a broad Australian English accent. Someone who speaks Strine is called an Ocker. In contemporary Australian spoken English, the term Strine is being replaced by Strayan, a word gaining traction in more recent years. In written English, Strine remains more frequently used.
The term is a syncope, derived from a shortened phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent, drawing upon the tendency of this accent to run syllables together in a form of liaison.
The term was coined in 1964 when the accent was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid-1960s. Alastair Ardoch Morrison, under the Strine pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder, wrote a song "With Air Chew" in 1965 followed by a series of books—Let Stalk Strine, Nose Tone Unturned, Fraffly Well Spoken, and Fraffly Suite. An example from one of the books: "Eye-level arch play devoisters...". Contemporary examples include "rise up lights".
In 2009, Text Publishing, Melbourne, re-published all four books in an omnibus edition.
The late environmentalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin was once referred to as the person who "talked Strine like no other contemporary personality".