Australian Club (Sydney)

Australian Club (Sydney)
(Deep state milieu, Club)
Australian Club (Sydney) ; (Deep state milieu, Club)
Formation	1838
Headquarters	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Membership	• Joseph Palmer Abbott; • Alexis Albert; • Haynes Gibbes Alleyne; • John Anderson (Australia); • Doug Anthony; • Larry Anthony; • Bruce Baird; • Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough; • Edmund Barton; • Garfield Barwick; • Thomas Bavin; • Phillip Bennett; • Frank Horton; • John Victor Hall Best; • Douglas Thornley Boyd; • Lester Joseph Brain; • Gerard Brennan; • John Le Gay Brereton; • William Throsby Bridges; • Thomas Buckland; • James Burns; • William Westbrooke Burton; • John Busby; • William Busby; • Alexander Cambitoglou; • Robert Campbell; • Ian Campbell; • William Timothy Cape; • John Carrick; • Edward Idris Cassidy; • Jack Cassidy; • John Henry Challis; • Harry Chauvel; • Sydney Ernest Christian; • Stuart Clark; • David S. Clarke; • Charles Percy Barlee Clubbe; • Terence Cole; • Peter Cosgrove; • Bob Cotton; • Charles Cowper; • Norman Lethbridge Cowper; • James Charles Cox; • Paul Alfred Cullen; • Arthur Roden Cutler; • Peter John Cosgrove; • William John Dakin; • Thomas Joseph Daly; • William Bede Dalley; • Frederick Matthew Darley; • James Ralph Darling; • John Bayley Darval; • William Deane; • Peter Debnam; • George Dibbs; • Owen Dixon; • Hugh Dixson; • Stuart Donaldson; • John Dowd; • Justice Garry Downes; • Harold Robert Dew; • Talbot Duckmanton; • Gordon Duncan; • Donald Dunstan; • Donald J. Dwyer; • William L'Estrange Eames; • Malcolm Henry Ellis; • John Fahey; • James Fairfax; • Warwick Oswald Fairfax; • Charles Brunsdon Fletche; • Francis Forbes; • Malcolm Fraser; • George Warburton Fulle; • Hudson Fysh; • Harry Gibbs; • Murray Gleeson; • David Gonski; • William Deuchar Gordon; • Albert John Gould; • James Graham; • Peter Graha; • Norman McAlister Gregg; • William Gummo; • Jack Hannes; • John Hay; • John Hewson; • Dyson Heydon; • David Holthouse; • Samuel Hordern; • Marshal Angus Houston; • John Howard; • Michael Wyndham Hudson; • Tom Hughes; • Percival Halse Rogers; • Timothy Hawkes; • Thomas Jenkins; • Alfred Julius; • Norman William Kater; • John Kindler; • George Eccles Kelso King; • Stephen Lackey Kessell; • Peter King; • Philip Gidley King; • Phillip Parker King; • David Kirk; • Frank Kitto; • Frederick Percival Kneeshaw; • Adrian Knox; • David Leach; • Peter Leahy; • George Le Couteur; • Charles Lloyd Jones; • Jim Longley; • Robert Lowe; • John Isaacs Loewenthal; • Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur; • William Macarthur; • Denzil Macarthur-Onslow; • James Macarthur-Onslow; • Mungo William MacCallum; • Alexander MacCormick; • Hugh Mackay; • Charles Mackellar; • Michael MacKellar; • Alistair Mackerras; • Henry Normand MacLaurin; • Normand MacLaurin; • Alexander Macleay; • George Macleay; • William Sharp Macleay; • Herbert Lethington Maitland; • William Montagu Manning; • Robert Maple-Brown; • Conrad Martens; • David Martin (NSW); • James Martin; • David Maughan; • John McCallum; • Samuel McCaughey; • Derek McIntosh; • Fred McKay; • Bruce McKern; • William McMahon; • Frederick Duncan McMaster; • William McMillan; • Roderick Meagher; • Peter Meares; • Edward Christopher Merewether; • Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether; • Denison Samuel King Miller; • Douglas Miller; • Jim Milner; • David Scott Mitchell; • Thomas Mitchel; • Max Moore-Wilton; • Hugh Morgan; • William Morrow; • Leslie James Morshead; • Thomas Sutcliffe Mort; • Allan Moss; • Rupert Myers; • Charles Nicholson; • John Northcott; • Richard Edward O'Connor; • Edward David Stewart Ogilvie; • Arthur Alexander Walton Onslow; • Alexander Campbell Onslow; • Coles Alexander Osborne; • William Francis Langer Owen; • William Owen; • Langer Meade Loftus; • Clyde Packer; • James Packer; • Kerry Packer; • Earle Page; • Banjo Paterson; • Andrew Peacock; • John Beverley Peden; • George Pell; • Frank Astor Penfold Hyland; • Thomas Alfred John Playfair; • Claude Plowman; • Hugh Raymond Guy Poate; • Ian Potter; • Benjamin Quist; • Tom Raine; • George Edward Rich; • Bernard Blomfield Riley; • Alfred Roberts (Australia); • Stephen Henry Roberts; • Alan Robertson; • Joseph Phelps Robinson; • William Robson; • Christopher Rolleston; • James Rowland; • William Rutledge; • Gordon Samuels; • Kim Santow; • Paul D. Scully-Power; • John See; • Nicholas Shehadie; • Colin Sinclair; • an Sinclair; • Robert Burdett Smith; • Warwick Smith; • Kenneth William Starr; • Alfred Stephen; • Matthew Henry Stephen; • Edward Milner Stephen; • obert Campbell Stephen; • Bertram Stevens; • Francis Bathurst Suttor; • Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart; • Angus Talbot; • Edward Deas Thomson; • Robert Towns; • Ralph Townsend; • Malcolm Turnbull; • David Tiller; • John Vallance; • Walter Liberty Vernon; • Thomas Waddell; • Charles Gregory Wade; • Samuel Robert Walder; • William Wilkinson Wardell; • William Wentworth; • Morris West; • A B Weigall; • Hunter White; • Richard Windeyer; • Victor Windeyer; • William Charles Windeyer; • John Woolley; • Justice Edward Wise; • James Wolfensohn; • Eric Woodward; • John Atherton Young
	The oldest establishment club in Australia

The Australian Club is a private club founded in 1838 and located in Sydney at 165 Macquarie Street. Its membership is men-only and it is the oldest gentlemen's club in the southern hemisphere. It enjoys reciprocal arrangements with other clubs of its type including; the Melbourne Club, Boodle's and Brooks's in London, the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco, California Club in Los Angeles, Union Club and Knickerbocker Club of New York City, the Metropolitan Club in Washington D.C., and the Somerset Club in Boston.

"The Club provides excellent dining facilities, en-suite bedrooms and apartments, a fully equipped gym, and on Level 7 of the building in which the Clubhouse is located, are first rate business facilities which Members and resident guests may access."^[1]

Presidents

Hon Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS 1838 - 1848
Hon Campbell Drummond Riddell 1848 - 1856
Hon Sir Edward Deas-Thomson KCMG CB MLC 1857 - 1879
Hon Sir William Macarthur MLC 1879 - 1882
Christopher Rolleston CMG 1882 -1888
Edward Merewether FRGS 1888 - 1893
Hon Philip Gidley King MLC 1894 - 1900
Hon Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor MLC 1900 - 1908
Hon Henry Edward Kater MLC 1909 - 1924
John Archibald Anderson 1924 - 1933
Major-General Hon James William Macarthur-Onslow VD MLC 1933 - 1936
William Deuchar Gordon 1936 - 1939
Pat Hamilton Osborne 1939 - 1942
Hon Sir Colin Sinclair KBE MLC 1942 - 1945
Hon Sir Norman William Kater MLC 1945 - 1948
Edmund Irving Body 1948 - 1951
Hon Sir Colin Sinclair KBE MLC 1951 - 1954
John Gordon Crowther 1954 - 1957
Edmund Irving Body CBE 1957 - 1959
John Gordon Crowther 1959 - 1960
Rt Hon Sir Victor Windeyer KBE, CB, DSO, ED, QC 1960 - 1963
Donald Brian Hardy Arnott 1963 - 1966
Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE DSO ED 1966 - 1969
Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper CBE 1969 - 1972
Sir William Morrow DSO ED 1972 - 1975

Membership

Former Prime Ministers John Howard and Malcolm Turnbull are members of the club.^[2]

Women are excluded from membership of the club. In June 2021, around 700 members attended a Special General Meeting of the club to vote on a proposal to allow women to join the club. Seventy-five percent of attending members needed to vote for the proposal in order for it to receive approval. The proposal was defeated when 62 percent voted against allowing women to join.^[2]

Known members

9 of the 238 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
John Fahey
Malcolm Fraser
Frank Horton	Nuclear missiles force general and target planner
John Howard
William McMahon
Kerry Packer	Australian Clermont Set media magnate
George Pell	Archbishop with friends in high places
Malcolm Turnbull	Prime Minister of Australia 2014-2018
James Wolfensohn	Australian/US dual national, President of the World Bank, Bilderberg steering committee

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References

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[1] Australian Club Web Site Home page

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