An informal network by which information or gossip is spread rapidly; the bush telegraph.
official communications were poor but word travelled swiftly on the mulga wire
Example sentencesExamples
- I had been receiving worrying reports about her by mulga wire.
- Local gossip flourished through a word-of-mouth medium generally referred to as 'the bushman's mulga wire'.
- I heard on the mulga wire you would be on the road.
- Ah, the mulga wire's been at work.
- 'No, the mulga-wire's not working too good,' he said.
- That news came by mulga wire and in due time was confirmed by one person and another.
- For once the mulga wire had failed to function.
- He gives the mulga wire version of the expedition.
- The mulga wire is still a mystery to me, Inspector.
- The news goes round by mulga wire to homes that are far and near.