I thought you were just mucking around about the expression, but my sincere apologies as it turns out it IS just an Australian expression, after all:
link to a page with the definition of the expression

Yes, these mounds aren't the tall, point sort one normally sees on wildlife programs about Australia or Africa. There are two main species in this area (and all of the way down up and down the coast until one hits the tropics) that make ground mounds, but the mounds of only one species are used (by both lace and heath monitors). The tree mounds they use occasionally are also made by the same genus, if not species, of termite.

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