As a Centralian advocate, I cannot allow this to pass without reminding Boarders that it was Alice Springs' very own Alf Traeger who invented the pedal wireless for use in the Royal Flying Doctor Service pioneered by the famous flying padre, Flynn of the Inland (but how come he was Flynn of the Inland and not Flynn of the Outback?? ).

BTW, following further inquiries, I have received two independent reports of a local using the expression 'Shiver me wombats', in which, presumably, 'wombats' is synonymous to the woody word in the Bette Midler song.