back-blocks

• “I'm only a back-blocks shearer, as easily can be seen”

  Widgegoweera Joe

• “And there were other salesmen, less regular patrollers of the back-blocks than the Watkins man but equally welcome, hawking everything from tailor-made cigarettes and fancy pipes to whole bolts of material, sometimes even luridly seductive underwear and lavishly beribboned stays.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “Education is compulsory, the Government providing an elaborate system to see that every child gets at least the rudiments of education; even in the far back-blocks, where settlement is much scattered, it is necessary and possible to go to school.”

  Peeps At Many Lands: Australia

• “One hears still of acts of cruelty in the back-blocks (as the far interior of Australia is called), but, so far as the Government can, it punishes the offenders.”

  Peeps At Many Lands: Australia

• “As if we don't all know what boys is; why, there'd be no chance of rarin 'them without touchin' nothing, unless you carted them off to the back-blocks where there wasn't no one within reach.”

  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

• “After a short sea-journey they took train to a dusty back-blocks township, where Gordon picked up one of the many outfits which he had scattered over the country, and which in this case consisted of a vehicle, a dozen or so of horses, and a black boy named”

  Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life

• “As the above conversation shows, my husband's chief care was to make his sister's visit bright and enjoyable -- no easy task in the lonely back-blocks where our station was, and where the dreary loneliness and deadly monotony of the West Australian bush reaches its climax.”

  The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911

• “About this time news came that the Governor, Lord Malice, would pass through Wadgery on his tour up the back-blocks.”

  Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete

• “Might live here for a thousand years and he'd still be the nonesuch of the back-blocks.”

  Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete

• “The back-blocks has its tricks as well as the towns, as you would see if you come across a stock-rider with a cheque to be broke in his hand.”

  The Judgment House

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