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Similar slang or
colloquial words are "the sticks", "the ****s", "the
backblocks", or "Woop Woop" in Australia, "the ****-****s" in New Zealand, "bundu"...
- to
elderly men. The
chorus of a
famous Australian shearer's song, The
Backblocks'
Shearer (also
known as
Widgegoeera Joe),
written by W.
Tully at Nimidgee...
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Backblock Ballads and
Other Verses is the
first collection of
poems by the
Australian writer C. J. Dennis,
published by E. W. Cole, Melbourne, in 1913...
- 1943 (1943) Plans,
plots and
appraisals from the
backblocks (1945)
Later notes from a
backblocks hospital (1949) Ancott-Johnson,
Barbara (1973) Nurse...
- gold rushes, the
brutality of
relaxed restraint, the
boredoms of the
backblocks, the
feeling of
making life anew.
There may be more
similarities between...
- 2020. "Life in the
Backblocks".
Otago Daily Times. 18
December 1937.
Retrieved 17
December 2020. ""Barbara of the New
Zealand Backblocks"".
Manawatu Times...
- rural) practice,
later publishing two
volumes of her autobiography,
Backblocks baby-doctor and
Doctor down under.
Gordon was
devoted to
midwifery care...
- as
Dennis and is set
around the time when
Dennis produced The Gadfly.
Backblock Ballads and
Other Verses (1913) The
Songs of a
Sentimental Bloke (1915)...
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really saw. The
Brisbane Courier stated that the
story came "to
paint the
backblocks in the
colours of ****.
Compare this
horrible nightmare with Lawson's...
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later included in the author's
poetry collections Backblock Ballads and
Other Verses (1913) and
Backblock Ballads and
Later Verses (1918). It was subsequently...
