Accents

[6ft3Aussie]

Being originally from New Zealand, and living in Australia for nearly 20 years, I know that my accent now is probably 98% Aussie... I even have both passports.
New Zealand has accent differences depending on where you're from, for example in the southern parts of the South Island, they roll their Rs, the areas from Dunedin and south were populated with migrants mainly from Scotland and Northern England, while Canterbury, (I was originally from Christchurch) was settled by folks from Southern England where they spoke more of the "Queen's English" which still forms an influence in their accent.
I lived in Auckland for 11 years, and in that area I guess the Maori and Polynesian influence affects the accent there. Whenever I went back to Christchurch, people picked that I was from Auckland just like that.
These days when I travel to New Zealand people ask me what part of Australia I'm from... The difference between the Aussie accent and New Zealand is very obvious. Don't ask a New Zealander if there from Australia.....

Then my wife who hails from the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, tends to turn many vowels into a U sound, that's a factor from the regional dialect in their island group, and then as a result of the American influence in the Philippines, she has, like all Filipinos, a slightly American accent when speaking English. I do sometimes have trouble with some things she says, but that's not just her accent. She does pretty well as she speaks 4 languages fluently (English, Tagalog, their regional dialect plus the dialect of the adjoining province) plus a little Japanese on top.