What do visitors to Australia want to take home? Usually something small because airline luggage weight limits restrict them. There are tourist shops and roadhouses willing to sell all kinds of tacky little sourvenirs to tourists to take home with them. Even our own locals can’t resist buying them to send to relatives or to take home themselves from their holidays.

So what are some of our tackiest souvenirs that visitors are representing Australia with? Here are some we found, know of any more?

• Bottle openers made from kangaroo paws
• Purses and pouches made of kangaroo scrotums
• Tacky bumper stickers
• Boxing kangaroo pens
• Ned Kelly dolls
• Kangaroo jerky
• Stuffed Koalas, Kangaroos and Platipi
• Koala backpacks
• Australia map thermometres and plates
• Kangaroo thimbles
• Koala toys with a mini boomerang
• Kangaroo and Koala jewellry
• Koala and Kangaroo keyrings
• Chromed Kangaroo and Koala bells
• Aboriginal man with a didgeridoo fridge magnets

Now have a 2nd look and see where it’s made?

If you want to take home a piece of Australia, make sure it genuinely Australian! Check out the label.