If your child has been asked to dress up as something from Australia...

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

Don't pick Ned Kelly. It's a right bloody faff.
He didn't want to be a kangaroo or a dunny spider.
So I thought - Ned Kelly! A few bits of big card from the craft shop and I can throw it together in half an hour.
No no no no no.
He wants me to paint on some bullet holes too.

Kylie! Do you have gold hot pants? I do!

Australian child shorts t shirt sandals and a sunhat that covers the back of his neck !!!

I was trying to save up corks to make a silly hat, but we've not been drinking much recently.
I really did think it would be simple. Now I'm threatening my stapler with certain death if it doesn't stop misbehaving.
My younger child has to go in as a penguin.

Aboriginal? Red /brown/yellow shorts, some body paint and a spear/stick/boomerang

Sports person- green and gold clothes ( or a tennis player - rod laver, cricketer)

Dame edna

Everything in red, stand very still - Ayers rock

I'm committed now. Ds1 has been looking Ned Kelly up online and is really keen. Sigh.
I wanted to send ds2 in as an iceberg but he has to be a bloody penguin.
Continents Day. Argh.

Shark

Ned Kelly is probably easier than my first thought which was hte Sydney Opera House!

Dame Edna?

Lifesaver - zinc on nose, red/yellow cap and red shorts

Laminating, thong, vegemite, crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin?

don't you just stick a wastepaper bin over his head?

Surfer? That would be easy and he could look pretty cool. Bright shorts and t-shirt, tousled hair, sun block streaks on face, etc. If you have a body board he could take that along, or a toy shark... or is that bad taste?