Really not my area of knowledge but this seems a good piece about the decline of Cantonese in Australia and beyond. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-06/takeover-melbourne-teen-and-the-cantonese-language/103069564
I got very used to hearing the lilt and tone of Cantonese in Perth during the 1980s thanks to a couple of cinemas running lots and lots of Hong Kong movies.
While I'd occasionally hear it on campus and around the city it seemed to fade away during the decade.
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