The Lizard has a London accent. He sounds just like me! There's about 10 million English with this accent (or a wannabe version we call Mockney).

The reason that the Aussie accent so so similar is that the British Government tried to get rid of the unwashed hordes back in the 18th Century and the majority were from London. They were sent down on unwarranted or trumped up charges. Now, of course, Australia is a wonderful country full of some of the best people in the world.

Aussies and Londoners share many similarities although they are better looking but we can drink more beer!!!

I've lived in the US for 10 years now and get asked everyday if I am an Aussie and every other day if I am Irish. Very rarely do people think I am English as Americans associate the upper class accent with the British people, which is probably spoken by less than 2% of us.

Sorry to go ona bout this but even my mother in law thought he was an Aussie and she has been hearing me talk for about 5 years now!!!!!