Backbencher

I looked at the Dec/Jan 2008 issue of Outback magazine and found it very interesting. The purpose of this magazine is easy enough, to make money. The audience of this magazine, however, is more difficult to understand. It is called Outback magazine and is in the most part about Australia's outback and the people that live there. However, the magazine is probably expensive and is probably sold mostly to people who live in the cities, like Sydney. So obviously the average person in Australia looks at this magazine as a representation of what and who they are; but are they? One of the articles in the magazine was about a man who considered himself a bushman, in 1983 he was in a accident and "finished up" with a broken neck. When he woke up some weeks later the first question he asked was if anyone knew where his R.M. Williams boots were. His wife responded to him saying they were cut off; he goes on to say that he is paralyzed in an electric wheel chair and he can handle that just fine but the thought of someone cutting off his R.M. Williams boots he will never forget. That is very interesting to me, he sees his boots more of a representative of what he is than his body! The thought of someone cutting off his boots is like someone taking his identity away from him. As far as the nature of the magazine, the pictures are beautiful and portray what seem to be very real circumstances. There are many Ute advertisements and even some issues of Outback magazine called Bush Utes and Street Utes. Other than that it does remind me of an American magazine without the drama and he said she said to it.