Caravans first appeared in Australia during the 1920s, but the real craze for the "home-away-from-home" holiday struck in the 1950s, when greater prosperity, better roads and wider access to cars enabled this leisure pursuit. Caravans offered holidaymakers a sense of freedom and unshackled them from the constraints of railway schedules and destinations. This stamp issue celebrates the great Australian holiday, with a rearview-mirror look at caravanning from the 1950s to today's mobile generation of grey nomads.
Stamp design: Melinda Coombes, Coombes Whitechurch Design
Stamp images:1950s — Caravanning Industry Australia, Vic. (caravan and family), Ben Healley/Museum Victoria (FX Holden), Travel Victoria (background); 1960s — RACV Heritage Collection (caravan), Travel Victoria (background); 1970s — Newspix/News Limited (caravan), Travel Victoria (background); 1980s — Coombes Whitechurch Design (caravan), Alessandra Schellnegger/zefa/Corbis (people), Tourism Queensland (background); today — Jayco (caravan), Newspix/Tracee Lea (people), Lonely Planet Images/John Banagan (background)
Cover design: Jo Muth, Australia Post Design Studio
Cover image: map section reproduced with permission of UBD
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