Accents

The Greek Australian accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep8FHim97dw
Lebanese Australian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQsIf9lb0bc
The working class Australian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dik_wnOE4dk
But this is the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgUVov1SGI

I remember being in Adelaide in the 1960's and wanting a pastie, my NSW pronunciation did not impress the seller and he corrected me, saying SA style, pastie I presume!. I think South Australians have a different name for pumpkin, In Qld they do carry a port and Australians wear thongs, which raises lots of eyebrows in the US

Ah yes, but Americans wear fanny packs, which raises eyebrows with Australians.

I suppose it's worth mentioning that differences in the names for things (fanny packs v bum bags, etc) is fine, but doesn't exclusively constitute an accent (or a dialect) - the pronunciation of words - the differences - are at least as important.

I would also suggest that the South Australian accent is NOTHING like a Kiwi one (shudder!).

I wonder if I should advise the Powers-that-be, what fanny means in Australian slang and some people may be offended by it and so no one may use it

I agree that its more a difference in names for things in different areas than an accent difference. Like the first time I was offered a juice box by a Victorian, I just stared at her for a second before I worked out she was offering me a popper. There are some differences but they are not universal. I live in a small country town but was brought up in Sydney. There is a difference in the way older farmers that have lived their whole life on a family farm talk compared to North Shore Sydney compared to Western Sydney. But its not exactly an accent. If I met another Aussie overseas I wouldn't be able to tell from an accent what part of Australia they were from.

I really cringe when I hear someone say fanny pack. It sounds horrendous

I've noticed that among the Australians I've met they either say dance or dahnce, or say chance or chahnce. Is that a regional variation?

I am from Victoria but have lived most of my adult life in NSW. I think that SA accents probably the most distinctive. They had a higher proportion of British immigrants there which I think has affected the accents. They say things like dahnce and chahnce but also pronounce words like our as ahr. The politician, Christopher Pyne (aka Christopher Pahn) is often mocked for his posh SA accent. See here (I think those doing the mocking in this clip are from Melbourne and you can quite clearly hear the difference):
https://youtu.be/r_7Z6Mh2N9Y

There was also an excruciating pair of women on a cooking show a few years back who had really strong SA accents. I suspect that is why they never went on to have much of a tv career. The woman called Jess was always Jessay and they always swallowed their final consonants, eg, but was buh etc.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/my-kitchen-rules-winners-bree-and-jessica-laugh-off-comments-about-south-australian-accent/story-fn8yvfst-1226900855191

There are a few giveaways with Queenslanders as well, eg, the propensity to say éh' at the end of a sentence. That is more a low socio economic or country thing though.

I've noticed that among the Australians I've met they either say dance or dahnce, or say chance or chahnce. Is that a regional variation?

It's a ludicrous latterday affectation picked up newsreaders and corporate captains in an effort to sound more like the educated elite. Ridiculous. Different rules for different words. One recent example. Newsreaders now say, Grahnt instead of Grant, but couple it with Hackett and they certainly don't run with Harkett.

Just to add. If you're from overseas then no, you would have no chance in picking where in Australia somebody was from.