outback

The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.

In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.

Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.

[…]the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.

In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.

To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.

If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.

This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.