In July, Sydney Speaks presented papers at the International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE|10 (Leeuwarden, Holland) and the International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ICHL24 (ANU)  exploring the role of ethnicity in language change in diphthongs in Australian English. They find little evidence for ethnolectal variation, but rather that Chinese Australians are ahead of an ongoing change away from broad pronunciations, associated with the high socioeconomic status of this group.