Australiana Village

WANTED POSTER!

You can print off your very own Australiana Village Souvenir Wanted Poster, customised with your own name, alias and crime, like this:

Click on the poster to download your very own!

BOAT BULDERS!

During the Jamboree our team of highly skilled boatbuilders will be constructing an authentic full-size colonial style timber rowing boat, using mostly traditional methods and tools. You will be able to watch the progress each day and even help in the construction. There will also be a competition to name the boat. This is just one of the many interesting things to see and do at Australiana Village.

BRANDED!

Like the convicts transported to the colony of NSW two hundred years ago, scouts and visitors can be "branded" with Australiana Village's very own "CONVICT" stamp. The broad arrow symbol was traditionally used in the past to label Government property and possessions and was stamped on convict's clothing to identify their lowly status. This stamp can be your "tattoo" souvenir of your visit to the village!

Did you know there will be special court sessions at Australiana Village, where you will have the chance to bring your leaders to trial for the many irritating ways they may annoy you?

Have them charged with disturbing the peace because of their snoring or for child slavery because they made you wash all the dirty cooking pans!  Are their weak jokes making you suffer too much mental torture? 

Get even by making a citizen’s arrest and bringing them to trial. See them be publicly humiliated and subjected to the hash punishments suffered in colonial times, if they are found guilty!

 

 Imagine your leaders here!

Ever wanted to bend and shape steel? If so, make sure you visit the Blacksmith’s Shed at Australiana Village, the Jamboree’s own historic recreation of colonial life in Australia – from about 200 years ago! There are many other interesting and exciting things to do at the village, such as gold panning and candle making, as history comes to life!

Yes – you could strike it rich when you pan for gold at Australiana Village, the Jamboree’s own historic recreation of colonial life in Australia.

As well as discovering if there really is gold “in them there hills”, you can make candles, try your hand at blacksmithing, watch the courthouse trials, see convicts flogged and much more. Experience some of the fun and see what life was like in this by-gone era.