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WARNING: SOMEWHAT "BLUE".
I found on the web this list of Ozzie slang terms. Would anyone more knowledgeable than I care to comment its accuracy?
arvo: afternoon
bikkie: biscuit
blower: telephone
blue: a fight or argument
bonzer: great
boobley: a big fight/argument
bugger-all: very little
go to buggery: go to hell!
carked it: died (e.g. the car carked it half way to the beach)
chockie: chocolate
chook: chicken
crack: a mental express extreme anger or rage
daks, underdaks: pants, underpants
deadshit: a person of low intelligence (an insult)
divvy van: police van, paddy wagon
drongo: a really dumb dude
up the duff: pregnant
dunny: toilet
fag: cigarette
fair dinkum, dinkum, dinky-dye: honest, truthful, honourable
fart-arse: screw off, waste time
crack a fat: get a boner
footy: a football, or a game of football
franger: condom
goes like a shower of shit: really fast or impressive
hooroo: goodbye, see you later
no wucker’s: a polite shortened form of the spoonerism ‘no wucking furries’
norks: breasts
piss: alcoholic beverage
pissed: drunk
root: synonymous with the word f*ck
sook: a ‘cry-baby’
wanker: one who masturbates... A good all purpose insult.
wowser: prude
yobbo: a rude or ingnorant person
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I can vouch for most of them, because a lot of them are the same or similar to the UK but theres plenty Aussies round here could tell you more
PS I have to claim "Wanker" for Britain , er no ....let me rephrase that........
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Looks pretty good to me. I imagine a number of them are shared with the poms. "Up the duff" is more British that Aussie. Other slight alterations include:
boobley - never heard of this one
crack: (v) to suddenly express extreme anger or rage; to have a "break-down"
drongo: a really dumb guy, often used affectionately in response to a stupid action or remark
fart-arse: (always ~ around) screw off, waste time
yobbo: a rude or ignorant person; a loud supporter
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Yep Aphonic - these are all the real McCoy, though like doc I have never heard of a boobley - that's a weird one! As for the insult "deadshit", that's very widely used but so are the two alternatives "dickhead" (which can then be gussied up as "richard cranium")and - I'm not sure if I should use asterisks but I'll err on the side of propriety -"f**kwit" . Only other comment Aphonic is that we prefer "aussie" to "ozzie" - the latter is best saved for Mr Osbourne! 
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Like the others - never heard of boobley! Maybe being a girl is the reason, but I've not heard 'norks' very much either; bonzer is a bit stereotypical - few people really use it - but they/you haven't included that ultimate stereotypical phrase, which people actually do use, that wonderful "G'day mate!"
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Further to what zootsuit said....
Like z/s and doc_c, I've never heard of boobley. I suggest it is not widely used and, at a guess, is from Melbourne or Tassie. It seems temptingly close to a cross between "blue" (fight/argument) or "wobbly" (display of anger or frustration).
The others seem to have heard of "divvy van" (divisional van - ie bull wagon - ie paddy wagon) but I haven't. It sounds like it's an old term and, again, Victorian. Various police departments were (are?) known as Divisions.
Note to zootsuit: There's previously been encouragement to US'ns to refer to us as "Ozzies" at this Board. Without guidance, they persist in pronouncing "Aussies" as "Ossssssies" which, as you no doubt would be aware, we HATE!
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There's previously been encouragement to US'ns to refer to us as "Ozzies" at this Board. Without guidance, they persist in pronouncing "Aussies" as "Ossssssies" which, as you no doubt would be aware, we HATE!What the blue blazes makes you think you get a choice, eh? You're only Awstrarlyans when all's said and done!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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persist in pronouncing "Aussies" as "Ossssssies"
If you don't want USns to pronounce it that way why do you spell it with a double s?
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In the spirit of promoting cross-cultural friendship, I ask, is it ok to call you 'Ozzies' 'Australians'? Or is that an insult?
Thanks for the edification,
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