Independent Australian Scouts, known as Scouts of Australia from 1992 to 2001, is an alternative Scouting organisation to The Scout Association of Australia, operating as a central umbrella organization for independent local scout clubs or associations. Independent Australian Scouts is a member of the Order of World Scouts and became an affiliate and successor to British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association in Australia.
Independent Australian Scouts emphasizes scouting as a simple, experiential, outdoor activity emulating frontier scouts in being self-reliant, thrifty and resourceful and useful and helpful. The association views the Scout Movement as part of the wider Woodcraft Movement. The association eschews the cult-like idolization of Baden-Powell, "family scouting", the unnecessary connection of scouting with later juvenile Wolf Cub (and Beaver, Kea or Joey) schemes and the adult over-organization of scouting and its monopolization and manipulation as a commercial product.
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