I meet Stone on a rehearsal break in the backblocks of Sydney’s Fox studios.

She began as Vickie Lynn Hogan, a peroxide-blond waitress from the dusty Texas backblocks.

Along the Ophir River, in the far "backblocks" of Queensland in the '80s, life bravely tried to illustrate Hobbes's definition of man's existence in a state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."

Naturally, throughout the whole of the State of New South Wales, right to the very backblocks, there was an earnest wish on the part of the members of the New South Wales military forces to be in Sydney at the time of the fleet’s visit.

In this article the paper spoke of backblocks bushmen under the generic soubriquet of Billjim.