Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: australian accent?

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2699967.htm
Does the woman reporter sound any Australian?
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 Does the woman reporter sound any Australian?
Only very very slightly, at least to my ears.

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To my American but somewhat discerning ears, only slightly. Some of her 
vowels betray an Australian speaker trying not to sound Australian.
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Joe/Joey da New York
English as she is spoken (and sometimes written) in the US

 Does the woman reporter sound any Australian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG0Ecf-zHSI
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 Does the woman reporter sound any Australian?
I would have mistaken her for a Brit, but she presents herslelf as "an
Italian who grew up in Australia". Actually we are told that she "spent
her infant years in Italy".
I found her utterance very clear and easy to understand, anyway. 
As to the merits, I happened to notice a few factual inaccuracies and
omissions in her story (I listened to the first ten minutes). 
For instance, she reports about the alleged extramarital affairs of Mr.
Berlusconi, but she  omits telling us that Mr. Berlusconi and his wife
haven't been living as man and wife for many years now. 
The Italian-born Australian journalist reports from Ischia: "... my second
cousin twice removed in-law here is in the industry and he's lamenting the
fact that their tourism minister has been recruited from the ranks of
showgirls". Well, that's simply not correct. She, or her cousin, probably
mixed up Ms. Brambilla (Tourism minister, entrepreneur and former
president of the under-40 entrepreneurs council at Confcommercio) with Ms.
Carfagna (formerly a showgirl, now "ministro per le Pari Opportunit�"). 
Never trust a cousin! ;-)
The journalist also pontificates: "Anywhere else in the world these
scenarios might become explosive scandals that could obliterate a
political figure's career.". 
Well, that might be true, at least sometimes, but in France Prime Minister
Fran�ois Mitterrand's mistress stood next to his wife at his funeral, and
in the USA Bill Clinton's and John Kennedy's political figures were not
obliterated by their sexual dalliances. Maybe that was worth mentioning
too.
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E' tristemente corretto invece; la Brambilla faceva l'inviata per Medal 
in qualche trasmissione di scarso successo.
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Ciao Pizzi

 in qualche trasmissione di scarso successo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtUXaCh-whM
Ciao,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtUXaCh-whM
Did you notice the year? 1991. That was eighteen years ago, some minor
show. According to Wikipedia, she also modeled. But she was not a
well-known figure. After that, she became an entrepreneuress, since 2003
the chairwoman of an association of entrepreneurs and, as such, a public
figure. She entered politics in 2006.
You may like her or not, but saying that the present tourism minister "has
been recruited from the ranks of showgirls", which she was two decades
ago, and omitting who she really was and what she realized in the rest of
her life, would be in my view a gross mistification and an example of bad
journalism.
I prefer to think that the Australian reporter just mixed up Ms. Brambilla
with Ms. Carfagna.
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 with Ms. Carfagna.
Hai ragione, mi domando come abbia potuto chiudere la sua rete 
televisiva con cosï¿œ tanti ammiratori...
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Ciao Pizzi