Corporate Body

Wallaby Club (1894 - )

From
22 June 1894
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Membership Organisation
Website
https://wallabyclub.org.au/

Summary

The Wallaby Club is a Melbourne-based walking club which was established on 22nd June 1894 and held its first walk on 23rd June. It is the oldest such club in Victoria and probably in Australia. The Club motto À Votre Santé [to your health] neatly captures the spirit of the Club and its objectives of walking, talking, good companionship and entertaining engagement, with an appreciation of both the natural and built environments. Membership is limited to 75 and is by invitation only. Membership has had a focus on engineers, scientists and senior members of the medical profession. Members included Sir John Monash and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

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Note: There were no Presidents between 1897 and 1901. Various histories of the Wallaby Club can be downloaded from their website.

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See also

  • Wheeler, Graeme, The Scroggin Eaters. A History of Bushwalking in Victoria, to 1989 (Melbourne: Federation of Victorian Walking Clubs (VicWalk) Inc, 1991), 275 pp. pp.14-18. Details

Gavan McCarthy

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