If your house has a gas leak but it’s not too strong, she’ll be right.

If your bathroom faucet is leaking but it’s a drop an hour, she’ll be right.

If it’s bushfire season and you haven’t prepared for your house getting burned down, but it hasn’t happened in the last five years, she’ll be right.

Cynically, it’s shirking responsibility. Optimistically, it’s playing the odds.

I've never known anyone to leave a gas leak, and everyone I know would also get a leaking tap fixed (or do it themselves). I think you're exaggerating this aspect of Australian culture quite a bit.

I think the exaggeration was for humorous effect

Fair enough, it's more for an international audience who might take it as a totally serious assessment of Australian culture (if they care!). Can't keep the reputation of being too relaxed forever.

“She’ll be right”, meaning “it’ll be OK” describes one of the ways in which life in Australia and New Zealand differs from, say, the UK. It manifests in two ways:

- “It’ll be OK, don’t worry about it”, which leads to a more relaxed, less bureaucratic way of life.

- On the other hand, “it’ll do, don’t bother fixing/improving it”, which leads to things like New Zealand’s appalling housing quality.

Basically means, "it's good enough," or "don't worry about it."

It's also well-known as 差不多 (cha bu duo) in the Chinese-speaking world.

Here's my favourite example.

We were renovating an old 1920s house and wanted to replicate the timber/wood/plaster look on a wall that needed replacing. The timber was cut to a certain profile.

Went to the local builder supplies and asked about getting some timber cut to the profile of my sample. The guy behind the desk says:

"Whaddya wanna do that for? Just chuck a bit of gyppie up mate, she'll be right!"

Translation: Cover the wall with gyprock (sheet rock for Americans). Don't worry about making it look the same.

It's an attitude, an instruction and a lifestyle rolled into one thing. I got the timber cut somewhere else.

"She'll be right" is just "It will be alright, don't worry about it."

Often used when some issue is raised and no one thinks it's important. "This bridge has cracks in it..." "She'll be right!"

It isn't really an issue in the workplace though, depends on the company but most everywhere I have worked cared very deeply.

She’ll be alright = It will be fine, don’t stress.

Doing the bare minimum, with not a lot of TLC.

It makes for excellent work environments if you derive your joy and fulfilment from activities outside of work, but can be immensely frustrating if you want to deliver on quality (or expect quality delivered).

When somebody is fretting about something, usually unimportant, you can say, "Don't worry, it will be all right"

Forgetaboutit

Not really the same thing: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuhgeddaboud...