galah session

English

Etymology

From galah (“type of cockatoo”) + session.

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

galah session (plural galah sessions)

1. (Australia, informal, obsolete) A period on an outback radio network, allocated for private conversation.
   • 1986, Phyllis Gibb, Classrooms a World Apart: The Story of the Founding of the Broken Hill School of the Air‎^[1], page 59:

     She also had an opportunity to talk to some of these schoolmates on the Galah Session. This is the unofficial session when, at allocated times, people on the network are free to chat to each other.

   • 1992, Herb Wharton, Unbranded, unnumbered page:

     If they headed out to investigate, Forklift and his mate, who listened to everything on the Galah session of the Flying Doctor network, would know the police were on their way and might get rid of Comet so as to have no evidence.

   • 2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories, unnumbered page:

     Now, aligned to this online radio service, the Flying Doctor base also ran what us station hands called ‘galah sessions’. And these galah sessions were in part set up so that, after the business was concluded, the station women could have a good chat to each other and catch up on all the gossip and stuff.