| Gribble arrived in Western Australia in 1913 to reopen the Forrest River Mission in the wild backblocks of Wyndham. |
| Ferrets and stoats, introduced by European settlers in the nineteenth century, pushed the birds further into the backblocks of New Zealand. |
| You'll be jolly glad to get rid of me and be off with the uncle into the backblocks. |
| She began as Vickie Lynn Hogan, a peroxide-blond waitress from the dusty Texas backblocks. |
| Out in the rural backblocks, things haven't changed much from early settler days when fires often raged due to a lack of water. |
| Born in Stratford in 1889, John Edward Shewry grew up on a backblocks farm at Tahora. |
