How does the 'Australian' keyboard layout differ to US?

As a geek in Australia, It had always been my understanding that all keyboards here were US keyboards.

What are the differences, (if any) between selecting the Australian keyboard layout, from the US?

2 Answers

English (Australian) is an alias to English (US).

From : xkeyboard-config/-/blob/master/symbols/au

//
// Default Australian is the same as American
//
default partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" { include "us(basic)" name[Group1]= "English (Australian)";
};

There do not seem to be any differences. However, some software chooses the spelling based on your keyboard layout (which for me most of the time is annoying). So, this may lead to different spelling dictionaries being used.