Australian university: Aussie accent is result of generations of heavy drinking

There's a reason this guy (and story) showed up three times on /r/badlinguistics in the last two days [1], [2], [3]. Because what he's saying is rubbish. The discussion at [3] links to the refutation [4].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qh1jj/gday...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qmt1l/aust...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/3qo63v/ling...

[4] http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2015/10/29/when-media-ge...

(Title borrowed from SFgate's version of this article, because the title of this version was far too long to fit in Hacker News' allowed space for titles.)