[11] A number of scout organisations for non-British subjects, including "Scouts-in-exile" from Ukraine, Baltic States, Russia, Hungary and Poland, were formed in the 1940s.
Packer and the Sunday Times in 1908 supported the formation of the League of Boy Scouts.
[29] St. Enoch's Presbyterian Church, Mount Morgan, Queensland formed its unit on 23 November 1908.
Troops under the British Boy Scouts (BBS) program began Australian operations in 1909.
Some of the Girl Peace Scouts joined the Voluntary Aid Detachments during World War I.
[29] Baden-Powell visited Australia in May–June 1912[32] and in later years of March–April 1931[33] and December 1934,[34] to encourage the extension of his Boy Scouts Association.
The Boys' Brigade (BB) Scouts program ended in 1927 while the Catholic Boy Scouts' Association is formed the same year by the Society of St Vincent de Paul in New South Wales and Queensland.
Also that year, the BSA's Queensland branch constitution was changed to remove State Council's elected local representatives.
Scout Groups resisted but the BSA used World War II to further the centralisation.
The final Girl Peace Scouts troop in Lindasfarne Tasmania ceased operating in 1935.
In June 1943, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, the Governor of Queensland, resigned as The Boy Scouts Association Chief Scout of Queensland in opposition to a large portion of public donations going towards the many salaries of headquarters staff, making the Chief Commissioner a paid position and its failure to respond to his call for reforms to its centralisation efforts.
[citation needed] Several scouts-in-exile groups get started in the 1940s for eastern European countries with four just for Ukrainians.
The Baden-Powell Scouts in South Australia now has about 500 members, comprising three groups in the metropolitan Adelaide area.
The Baden-Powell Scouts in Australia has a number of sections catering for a wide age range.