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Oh, I've heard briefs too. It's not very common in Oz though, you're right.

In fact, we just sort of called them undies. Or knickers if you're a young girl (and grundies - short for grandma/grandpa undies - for really ugly high waisted underwear). But everyone just gets lumped into undies in the end. For the longest time, panties was an anime-only word to me, and I've still never heard them refer to male underwear.