» For other meanings see Strine (disambiguation) Strine was a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a joke or made-up "language" purportedly spoken by Australians. The term is a syncope, derived from a phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an exaggerated Broad Australian accent. It was the subject of humorous columns published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the mid 1960s and a later series of books written by Alastair Ardoch Morrison under the St… (More on Strine)