The Coalition MPs defending men-only club memberships
Coalition MPs have defended Melbourne’s few remaining colonial-era men-only clubs as a safe space where privacy is respected, after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews slammed the “archaic” institutions.
Mr Smith said people had a right to join private clubs that exclude members based on gender, but said Mr Burnside had been exposed as a hypocrite. Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh has been a member of the men-only Athanaeum Club for about 20 years. Former Labor attorney-general Rob Hulls tried in 2009 to revoke the exemptions to the equal opportunity act that enable the clubs to exclude women.
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