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According to the Sunrise program (Australia) on Sunday 22 July, the dating game is changing here:

• Australians are marrying later in life,
• They are having children later, with a second or third child not coming along until the mother is in her late 30s/early 40s, and
• SLIMs  (single low income males) are losing what attraction they had as marriage/family prospects.

This could mean that a fine Aussie tradition, the Bogan (AKA Westie, Booner, Hoon or Lout) could be a dying breed. They are the epitome of the SLIM ideal.

I cannot imagine an Australia without Bogans… a world without beat-up VK Commodore cars with home-made body kits and oversized tachometers,  without Jim Beam labels in car windows, without obscene bumper stickers, without mullet haircuts, without Victoria Bitter, and without torn western shirts/tracksuit pants/Ugg boots. The demise of the Ugg boot alone could force a glut in the sheepskin industry (and New Zealand jokes aside, there is a limit to alternative uses for sheepskin).

I believe that we need a Bogan Preservation Society. If we cannot conserve these Aussie icons in the wild (in garden spots like Macquarie Fields) then they must be preserved in captivity.

I’m not sure how to structure the captive breeding program, or fund it, but I do know that something must be done. Otherwise we will one day have to answer to our grandchildren…

“Grandad, what’s a Bogan?”