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April 01, 2019

We’ve done it. We’re proud to announce that with a LOT of help from our friend and new Chapter President David Harris, we have finally opened our 2nd chapter in New South Wales. Join us in welcoming the lads of the Northern Rivers to...

March 05, 2019

Though most of the region is on fire the mighty Heyfield Chapter could not be stopped opening tonight. Seriously, there’s bush fires all over Gippsland and the town of Heyfield is real smoky today but with the experienced hand of Clean Pete at the...

February 15, 2019

TGBC is pleased to announce that we will be opening a chapter in the Victorian town of Castlemaine in March. Castlemaine is a town with a long history, great bookshops and many fine drinking establishments. It was meant to be and now it is....

February 12, 2019

Name: Alex Dobson **Chapter: Sydney Who are you: Wine wanker, pasta nerd and passionate lover of, and advocate for, all forms of creative expression from fashion to fine art. How long have you been with TGBC: TGBC: March 2015? How did you end up...

February 12, 2019

Yet again piles of our goons have participated in our end of year book swap. This year we had 140 goons get involved and send guys they have never met a book, or books, or books and booze, or books and booze and a...

February 05, 2019

2019 is off to a flying start with 2 Melbourne Chapters opeing tonight. The first is one directly between the existing Footscray and Williamstown Chapters in the notoriously civilised but likes to party suburb of Yarraville, which continues our ongoing expansion into the western...

December 05, 2018

This last month a bunch of our goons grew moustaches (or ran k’s) to raise money for vital men’s health research and there was truly some shockingly bad ones. Seriously, on its best day this clubs not exactly an oil painting but the mo’s...

July 03, 2018

Every year we have Hemingway Month. We do this because he is interesting. He’s an icon of 20th century masculinity, with all the drinking, women and guns but he’s also a mean, misogynistic alcoholic who was worried about how much of a man he...

June 13, 2018

When surveyor Charles Scrivener was charged with finding a suitable site for our fledgling nation’s capital in 1904, little could he have imagined what was to follow over one hundred years later. Anyone who has ever been on a school excursion to Canberra (and,...

May 31, 2018

We have chapters all up the east coast of Australia but now it is time to move west. We are looking for people who live in Adelaide and are interested in helping us get a chapter off the ground there. If you know anyone...

May 31, 2018

Name: "Clean" Pete Collings **Chapter: Castlemaine East Who are you: An ordinary bloke with extraordinary dreams. I'm also a proud husband to an awesome woman and father to two awesome teenage girls. How long have you been with TGBC: My first meeting was in...

November 19, 2017

I didn’t sleep. I had an early start and I was worried I’d sleep in. I was too hot under the medium thickness spring/autumn doona and kept stealing sweaty glances at the clock. 23:17 00:43 03:56 04:32 I got up before my alarm and...

November 05, 2017

To round out another great year for our club we are opening two Chapters this December, the long overdue Bendigo and Ballarat. We’ve been planning on open many more central Victorian Chapters after our success in Castlemaine and these two towns are the obvious...

October 31, 2017

This year to change things up a bit, instead of participating in Movember as a club like we usually do, we decided to put a team together for Ocsober. It’s a charity fundraiser where you promise to lay off the beers for a month....

October 23, 2017

It started out in 1949 as The Apex Soap Box Derby. In 2017 it would return as the Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge. When our goons in the Victorian town of Castlemaine got wind of the challenge, they got romanticising. Naturally, nearly everyone had great...

October 18, 2017

Name: Sam Stops **Chapter: I feel most at home at Hobart chapter. Who are you: I’m your average man in his late 30s. I have a beautiful wife who’s way out of my league and we own a home in South Hobart. We have...

October 10, 2017

Point to Pinnacle On the 19th of November, well know goons Wash and Sam Stops Presedent of Hobart Chapter are tackling the self proclaimed “World’s Toughest Half Marathon”. It starts at sea level and over the 21.1 Km course ascends 1270m to the pinnacle...

October 06, 2017

You’re hanging from a wire, attached to a dead eucalyptus tree, suspended over a freezing lake in alpine Victoria. Your zipline harness pulls your thighs up to your shoulders and your testicles up somewhere around your chin. Your breath is choking hot, because for...

July 11, 2017

Chapter: Melbourne City What’s your story?  I discovered Tough Guy Book Club back in 2015. At the time, I was struggling with depression and anxiety and had cut off a lot of my friends, some who I'd known since Primary School. Part of getting out of my...

June 06, 2017

Today we welcome on-board our newest crew, the mighty Toowoomba Chapter. This first meet will be tonight the 7th of June at the Spotted Cow around 7pm. If you never been to “The Cow” before it’s a great local boozer with an excellent beer...

March 31, 2017

Tickets for TGBC Camp 2017 are now for sale on this website via the Store tab. You can buy full tickets or you can buy a tenth of a ticket. If you have bought 10 of these by camp you have a whole ticket....

March 01, 2017

In an exciting club first, TGBC has broken away from its metropolitan roots to establish its first regional chapter. An hour and a half north of Melbourne, in the Victorian Goldfields district, our new Castlemaine Chapter has moved into The Bridge Hotel. At the...

February 07, 2017

Where better to procrastinate with a great book? Tough Guy Book Club is coming down to Monash University Clayton campus, to found our new Monash Clayton Chapter. Furthering our reach and building on the remarkable diversity in our ranks, our crew is chuffed to...

January 10, 2017

After the roaring success of last year’s camp we are gearing up to do it all over again. The camp will be held over grand final weekend, 29th September - 2nd October. We are currently on the hunt for a new location, if you...

December 27, 2016

Our annual holiday period book-swap has been a wild success this year, with 70 members coming from every single chapter, including our American brothers and some rural goons who play along from home, signing up to be involved in the holiday tradition. Each year...