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.

- “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.

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

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.

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.

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).