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There have been, in Australia, the following Jamborees: 1934 1st Australian Pan-Pacific Jamboree at Frankston, Victoria - which B.P. attended 1938 2nd Australian Jamboree at Bradfield, NSW. 1948 3rd Australian/Pan-Pacific Jamboree at Wonga Park, Victoria. 1952 4th Australian/Pan-Pacific Jamboree at Greystanes, NSW. 1955/56 5th Australian/Pan-Pacific Jamboree at Clifford Garden, Victoria. 1960/61 6th Australian Jamboree at Landsdowne, NSW. 1964/65 7th Australian Jamboree at Dandenong, Victoria. 1967/68 8th Australian Jamboree at Jindalee, Queensland. Attended by Ashley Knights, Michael Powell and Trevor Smith. 1970/71 9th Australian Jamboree at Sydney, NSW. 1973/74 10th Australian Jamboree at Woodhouse, South Australia. 1976/77 11th Australian Jamboree at Dandenong, Victoria. Attended by:
1979/80 12th Australian Jamboree at Perth, Western Australia. 1982/83 13th Australian Jamboree at Ipswich, Queensland. Attended by 23 Scouts from Turi Troop and Kai Kai Troop together with 3 Leaders. Eugene Duff remembers the plumbing at this Jamboree consisted of large PVC pipes with taps fitted along the pipe. The water pressure was very high. One afternoon, whilst showering and he was all covered in soap suds, one of the taps blew out of the pipes. In the quarter of an hour it took to fix the tap, half the camp had come to look at the white Santa. Prior to the 14th Australian Jamboree at Cataract Scout Park, NSW it was decided to try out some new ideas from lessons learned at the 13th Australian Jamboree. However due to general apathy the camp fell apart. North Metropolitan Area decided to go ahead in a modified form at Nords Wharf. There were 120 boys in 4 Troops with about 90 Leaders hell bent on making the camp a success - and it was. Every boy had a turn at every activity and the obstacle course was a credit to the Venturers who made it. 1985/86 14th Australian Jamboree at Cataract Scout Park, NSW. Among the Scouts who attended were the following:
The Leaders were:
At this camp it was decided to have a rest day half way through the Jamboree, so all the Scouts would recuperate, clean up and write a letter home. The Troop adjacent to Kai Kai became bored and dug a mud-wrestling pit in the nature strip between the sub-camps. What followed is best described as a riot. About 200 Scouts attracted by the noise came running through camp lines, through fences etc. Even darkness didn't slow them down - they gathered torches to light the area. Eventually the fighting was stopped and it was apparently reported in the Jamboree newspaper as "an example of Scouts using their initiative." 1987/88
16th World Jamboree at Cataract Scout Park, NSW, attended by:
1989/90 15th Australian Jamboree at Woodhouse, South Australia. 1991/92 16th Australian Jamboree at Ballarat, Victoria The following Scouts attended:
1994/95 17th Australian Jamboree will be held at Perth, Western Australia from 30 December 1994 until 8th January 1995.
The following 29 Scouts have nominated to go to the 17th Australian
Jamboree:
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