How the Australian accent has changed without us knowing There’s a subtle change that has crept into the accents of one group of Australians - and you probably haven’t even noticed yet.

A woman from the US, who has been living in Australia for three years, says there’s one word – and primarily our pronunciation of it – that baffles her.

A subtle but telling change in the Australian accent has been delicately unfolding in recent years, but most would be hard pressed picking out the change unless someone pointed it out.