The form of Australian English spoken by the majority of Australians.
you should use General Australian in any formal writing
Example sentencesExamples
An intermediate category of accent variation, General Australian, was the most common type.
We should probably find that General Australian would be the inevitable choice among the three varieties of Australian English.
Most Australians now speak General Australian, something very similar to the foundation accent of the 1820s.
This move towards the centre is in part the linguistic expression of Australian nationalistic feeling elevating General Australian to the standard variety.
General Australian developed as mostly an urban speech in a demographic pattern of a good balance of the sexes and rising rate of natural increase.
She found that younger people moved more towards the use of General Australian.
He proposed a new system which more accurately represents the actual pronunciations of an average speaker of General Australian.
General Australian grew out of mass migrations, population movements, and demographic influences.
In the first half of the 20th century, Cultivated and Broad Australian sit as extremes on either side of General Australian.
It is possible that the exclusion of General Australian overly narrowed its potential readership.