Scouting and Guiding in Australia: Scouts Australia, Scouting and Guiding in Victoria, Rovers, Scouting and Guiding in New South Wales

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Scouts Australia, Scouting and Guiding in Victoria, Rovers, Scouting and Guiding in New South Wales, Australian Scout Jamboree, Rovering in Victoria, Scouting and Guiding in Queensland, Scouting and Guiding in Western Australia, Baden-Powell Award, Queen's Scout, Scouting and Guiding in the Australian Capital Territory, Venturer Scouts, Michael Baden-Powell, Assyrian Scouting and Guiding, Independent Australian Scouts, John Russell Savige, Britannia Park, Scouting and Guiding in the Northern Territory, Girl Guides Australia, Scouting and Guiding in South Australia, Australian Rover Moot, Nella Levy, Charles Hoadley, Surrey-Thomas Rover Crew, W. F. Waters, Scouting and Guiding in Tasmania, Cub Scouts, Australian Venture, Guide Gift Week, Joyce Price, Joey Scouts, 16th World Scout Jamboree, Centenary of Scouting Peace Boomerang, Baden-Powell Guild, Clement Roy Nichols. Excerpt: Scouts Australia is an organisation for children and young adults from 6 to 26 years of age. Scouts Australia is part of the global Scouting movement and has been a national member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement since 1953. Scouting in Australia has been open to girls since 1971. Boy Scouts reviewed by Lord Baden Powell in Canberra in 1927Scouting came to Australia in 1908, the year the first Boy Scout training handbook Scouting for Boys was published in England. Baden-Powell visited Australia in 1912 and in later years (1927, 1931 and 1934) to encourage the extension of the movement in Australia. Initially each Australian state branch was directly and individually responsible to scout headquarters in London. A federal council of state branch nominees was formed in 1922 to achieve co-operation and coordinated at a national level. The national body later appointed an Australian Commissioner. The Federal Scout Council functione...