Our Rural Magazine was a monthly magazine produced for school children who were located in isolated circumstances, between 1926 and 1946 - by the Education Department of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. In the inter-war period, many isolated rural localities did not have primary schools, and the students were required to have their education by correspondence.

The magazine was operated by the Education Department, with writers such as James Pollard John K. Ewers

John K. Ewers

John K. Ewers was a novelist, poet, schoolteacher and short story writer from Western Australia. He was the second son Ernest Ewers, orchardist, and his wife Annie Eliza, née Gray. When he was 6 his mother died. He was educated at James Street Intermediate and Perth Modern schools, and...

  Also heads of various institutions wrote on topics related to their position - in the September 1933 edition - the Government Botanist C.A.Gardner writes, as well as the curator of the Museum Ludwig Glauert

Ludwig Glauert

Ludwig Glauert was a British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator. He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils, and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia.Glauert was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England...

 conducts a correspondence column.

Also senior community leaders made encouraging messages to the isolated students like Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood:

I earnestly advise you to take full advantage of the educational correspondence classes that are open to you and by which my two grand-daughters have started their education. Be guided by the help and valuable instruction to be derived from 'Our Rural Magazine' and do not forget that the country districts, handicapped as their people may be in many respects, have been responsible for many of the most able leaders in the public life of Australia