Does a QLD dialect really exist?

I was talking with a person who has just moved up from NSW. He reckons that Queenslanders speak differently. He was teasing around locals, so I was not sure if he was serious or just joking. According to him, they do not use the words like "togs", "thongs" and "reflex" in Sydney. I wanted to ask how they call them instead, but I was too shy to do so. I can think of other words for "togs" and "reflex" as "swimmers" and "UBD", but not for "thongs". Maybe "flip flops"?? We call them as "beach sandals" in Japanese, but I have been corrected as "thongs" all the each time, so I had believed "thongs" were the universal English. It will not affect me too much whatever they are called as I love it here and I do not have any plan to move out. But, I am just interested to know if dialects really exist within Australia.

We always say "thongs" in Sydney - it's an Australia-wide word for beach sandals with only one toe separator. Be careful though, because 'thongs' mean a g-string bikini in the UK and America! My first day as a coach of a girls football team in England, I said "It's too cold for me to wear my thongs to training!" and they had a great laugh at my expense :) We also refer to swimmers as 'togs' in Sydney, although not that often. I have no idea what reflex/UBD is about, but my guess is that the Sydneysider was just joking around with the 'banana-benders' up there! ;)

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