backblock
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2BACKBLOCK + NOUN
roads
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solely
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noun
A remote tract of land in the interior; hence (in plural) sparsely populated country far from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads.
It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.
Land behind that which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.
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3I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads.
WiktionaryIt has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.
WiktionaryBackblocks hardship is a very real thing, but Mary Scott expresses it somewhat too much in the Victorian ‘There′s a tear on your eye’ mode, little graves on the hillside and old servants, horses and d
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