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Scouts Australia is a trading name of The Scout Association of Australia, which is the largest scouting organisation in Australia, with an estimated 55,038 youth participants in 2021, and a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. It was formed in 1958 and incorporated in 1967. It operates personal development programs for children and young adults from 5 to 25 years of age with programs successively opened to girls after 1971.
Scouting started in Victoria, Australia, as early as 1907 and local Boy Scout patrols and troops formed independently. Several separate central organisations began operating including Boys' Brigade Scouts, Church Lads' Brigade Scouts, Chums Scouts, Imperial Boy Scouts, Girl Peace Scouts, Imperial Boy Scouts Victoria Section, Imperial Boy Scouts Victorian Section, Gippsland Boy Scouts Association, Australian Boy Scouts, Australian Imperial Boy Scouts, The Boy Scouts Association, Life-Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army and Methodist Boy Scouts.
John Frederick Colquhoun, CBE, nicknamed "Koko", was a long-serving headquarters official of The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom and served on the World Organization of the Scout Movement's committee from 1959 to 1965.
Clement Roy Nichols,, of Kew, Victoria was an Australian Boy Scouts Association Scouting senior official.
Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley CBE was an Australian geologist.
Hui Chung-shing, BBS, MH, JP, anglicised as Herman Hui, is a former chairman of the World Scout Committee, the executive board for the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 2005 to 2008.
Chau Cham-son, OBE, CStJ, JP, was the Chief Commissioner of the Scout Association of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1996. He was the son of Sir Chau Tsun-nin.
Sir William Garth Morrison, was the Scout Association's Chief Scout from 1988 to 1996 and a member of the World Scout Committee from 1992 to 2002.
Niaz M. Khan served as the Chief Commissioner of the Pakistan Boy Scouts Association, and served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1963 to 1969.
John Clive Cecil May from London, United Kingdom, was the Vice-Chairman of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. He was elected at the 38th World Scout Conference in South Korea for a six-year term, the first United Kingdom Scouter elected since former Chief Scout of the Scout Association, Sir Garth Morrison. In his youth, May worked for Colony Holidays.
William Francis "Bill" Waters was Scouts Victoria's Headquarters Commissioner for Rover Scouts between 1930 and 1965.
Daniel Gil Ownby is an American energy professional. In 2020, Ownby was elected to a two-year term as National Chair for the Boy Scouts of America, the highest volunteer position in the Scout Organization. Previously, he served as International Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America. He also was a member of the Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America and headed the United States Fund for International Scouting (USFIS). He is known as an advocate for youth leadership and a life-long volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America.
The Silver Kangaroo is the highest award for adult leaders in Scouts Australia. It is awarded by the Chief Scout of Australia, on the recommendation of the Chief Commissioner of Australia. It is awarded for eminent achievement and meritorious service to the Association for a period of at least twenty years. It may be awarded to any member of a Scout Association affiliated with the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
David Bull is an Englishman who served as the International Commissioner of The Scout Association, as well as the Chairman of the European Scout Committee.
Mrs. Kirsty M. Brown of Australia served as the Chairman of the World Program Committee and World Adult Resources Committee and as a member of the Educational Methods Group the World Scout Committee, Chief Commissioner of Scouts Queensland, and as Vice-Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Scout Committee. Currently (2017) Kirsty is Immediate Past Chief Commissioner and Life Member of Scouts Queensland, Life Member of Scouts Australia, Consultant to the Asia Pacific Regional Scout Committee and Chairman of the World Honours and Awards Committee?
Bruce Hugh Garnsey served as the Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Scout Committee.
Henry C. Ma served as the Chief Commissioner of the Scout Association of Hong Kong.
Neil M. Westaway, of Victoria, Australia served as the Chief Commissioner of the Scout Association of Australia, as well as the Chairman of the World Scout Committee and the Chairman of the Board of Scout Resources International (SCORE), replacing Kun-Bae Park.
Dr. William George Wells AM served as the Chief Scout Commissioner of Scouts Australia from 1992 to 1999, and as Chairman of the Australian Queen's Scout Association in 2008.
Norman S. Johnson (d.1989) was a dentist and an Australian and international Scouting official.
References
- ↑ "John George Ravenhall". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ↑ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
