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Kevin Rudd calls Speedos "togs" and says when he refers to the King, he means Wally Lewis, not Elvis Presley.
The Prime Minister cited the examples in an effort to prove he was still a "fair dinkum" Queenslander, news.com reports.
Stung by Opposition leader Tony Abbott's comment last week that he was a "fake Queenslander", Mr Rudd felt the need to show his fellow banana benders he was still one of "them".
"Kevin Rudd is not a fair dinkum Queenslander," Mr Abbott said. "There's a lot more of Canberra in Kevin Rudd than there is of Nambour. He left Queensland a long, long time ago."
But Mr Rudd has hit back, telling The Sunday Telegraph his attendance at the season-opening Broncos-Cowboys NRL game last weekend was ample evidence of his maroon roots and he went further.
He packs his "port" (port is Queensland-speak for a suitcase or a schoolbag) - and he gets blank looks from his staff when he refers to NSW as "down south".
He says it's an undisputed fact the "Ekka" (the Exhibition, Brisbane's version of the Sydney Royal Easter Show, held each August) remains the greatest show on earth.
To the Prime Minister, "the King" is a Wally (Lewis), not an Elvis.
He still finds it almost impossible to use the name "Suncorp Stadium" for the former Lang Park.
He lived in Eumundi before there was such a thing as the Eumundi markets (the Sunshine Coast hinterland town is now famous for its markets - still exciting events in Queensland, apparently).
And he grew up in a town where sugar cane meant "soot on the clothesline".
He remembers when the cane toad only lived in Queensland.
He knows to never, ever to drive in Brisbane after 5pm on the night of Riverfire (the city's huge fireworks event on the Brisbane River each September).
Missing from Mr Rudd's list was any admission he got stuck into such Queensland staples such as Bundy (Bundaberg) rum, XXXX beer, Moreton Bay bugs or macadamia nuts, or whether he went camping on Moreton, Straddy (Stradbroke) or Fraser Islands - or wore those style-defying Stubbies shorts and hit the surf like mate Wayne Swan.
