backblock

1. (Australia, New Zealand, usually in the plural) 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.Examples: "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."; "Backblocks 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 dogs, faithful to the last."AustraliaNew-Zealandplural-normally