Australia 51

Listen to Australia 51, a 45-year-old man from Naracoorte and Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 45

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/10/1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Stirling, Western Australia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Australian/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: manager

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject has never lived outside Australia. (From age 2 to 22, he lived in the small town of Naracoorte, in southeast South Australia. He moved to Adelaide at the age of 22 and was still residing there at the time of this recording.)

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

As influences, he lists his university and higher education, plus working with a lot of non-native English speakers in the health industry.

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RECORDED BY: subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/12/2025

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I grew up in a small town of about, um, 5,000 people in southeast South Australia, um, from about the age of 3 to 18. Um, after 18, I went to Adelaide for university, and, um, returned every holidays or so until I was about, uh, 22, then made the decision to move permanently to Adelaide.

Um, in terms of influences, um, most of my friends had done something similar: um, came to university for study and things like that in the late 90s. We would, um, do what normal teenagers and 20-year-olds would do.

Um, but since then, uh, after joining or finishing university — sorry — um, I’d been, um, been working in, um, in a management, uh, role, and, um, that’s about it.

TRANSCRIBED BY: subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/12/2025

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