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Try living in Queensland, Australia. That's essentially their accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBYnL5fAXE
first half a minute
Philip_J_Fry
@krikov
Perhaps not strictly relevant to this thread, but the ongoing uptake of the rising /question intonation now appears to be inexorable and I still fucking hate it. There was a guest on R4 earlier who did it at the end of nearly every sentence. SO PAINFUL.