galah session
noun Australian informal
A period allocated for private conversation on an outback radio network, especially between women on isolated stations: she cheered herself up by listening in on the morning galah session...
- The galah sessions soon evolved with isolated workers sharing a chinwag or three over the airwaves.
- Traeger inadvertently named the “galah session" in 1935 when sending wire to Birdsville to strengthen the aerial from collapsing under the weight of galahs.
- Her only social contact was the weekly galah session.
Origin
1940s: a jocular extended sense of galah, with reference to the bird's raucous call and habit of gathering in flocks.