backblocks

They could benefit by remaining closer to the grassroots, by absorbing what people are saying, and by sending their reporters to what they might view as the "backblocks" and seeing what is happening out there - however inconvenient this may be to the news-gatherers.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

He is the son of a Jamaican father and German mother who bought him a camper van to slog around the backblocks of the lower-level European circuit for four years.

Dustin Brown hopes to make Jamaica's loss Britain's gain 2010

I am now in Geelong, having spent a good amount of time in the interim working in sales for Neighbourhood Cable which, apart from keeping me fit hoofing it around the backblocks of Geelong, gave me a direct insight into what broadband users are thinking.

A little about me 2005

I am now in Geelong, having spent a good amount of time in the interim working in sales for Neighbourhood Cable which, apart from keeping me fit hoofing it around the backblocks of Geelong, gave me a direct insight into what broadband users are thinking.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

My countrymen -- Australians -- men with whom I had hunted for silver in the desolate backblocks of New South Wales; men with whom I had scoured the interior of West Australia seeking for gold; men who had been with me on the tin fields and opal fields.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

They come down from the backblocks with perhaps a hundred pounds to spend on a week of blissful unconsciousness.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

You'll be jolly glad to get rid of me and be off with the uncle into the backblocks.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

Men come from up-country with a big cheque to knock out -- shearers and men like that, who live in the backblocks for months, hundreds of miles from hotels.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

"Are you going to live and die in the backblocks, David?"

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

The Lintons had heard many bands since they had been away, and some had played before the King himself; but no music had ever gripped at their heartstrings like the music of the little backblocks band that stood on the gravelled platform of Cunjee and played to welcome them home.

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918