-
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...
-
their eventual defeat in 1869. Bent then went into
hiding first in the
backblocks of
Taranaki and
later in Wairau, Blenheim. He
spent his
remaining years...
- More, a
clown from the
circus in
Stumptown (somewhere in the
humdrum backblocks of the
United States of America), and a serious-minded
orphan boy called...
-
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...
- New
Zealand nursing journal, is published. 1909 – A new role
called '
backblocks'
nursing was
introduced to New
Zealand providing services to
rural parts...
- gold rushes, the
brutality of
relaxed restraint, the
boredoms of the
backblocks, the
feeling of
making life anew.
There may be more
similarities between...
- duties. The last
section converted was Piriaka-Owhango. A 1926
article by "
Backblocks"
described conditions for
staff at
these stations where four
workers lived...
- 1943 (1943) Plans,
plots and
appraisals from the
backblocks (1945)
Later notes from a
backblocks hospital (1949) Ancott-Johnson,
Barbara (1973) Nurse...
- 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)...
