Australians love to shorten words, and very rarely use the full one if they can help it. This results in all sorts of odd new professions and inclinations -- journos, posties, foodies and nudies (journalists, postal workers, food freaks and nudists), for example -- as well as entirely new concepts -- like arvos, mozzies, brekkie, brolleys and trakkie daks (afternoons, mosquitos, breakfast, umbrellas and track suit pants). Australians have a knack for knowing precisely how to shorten which words or, ironically, how to lengthen them in a way that makes you think the word's been shortened. 'On ya.
