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June 24, 2020

Tough Guy Book Club is a club for men who don't read enough. Or men who want to read more. Or men who read too much and need somebody to talk to about all the amazing and interesting shit they've been reading... look, you...

June 03, 2020

That's our thing, always has been, right from day one. We like to read, pubs, chat, think about what's going on with ourselves and the world around us, drink beer and read. So, what do we do when the pubs are all closed? And...

May 07, 2020

The challenge for May 2020, apart from finding a path through your hoarded toilet paper, was to show us something at home. How do you make your signature dish?, are you working on a renovation project?, an instrument or langauge you are learning, building...

April 01, 2020

TGBC is more than just a book club. Each month TGBC sets a challenge – a suggestion on an activity, thought or task - always angled at making a positive difference in a man's life. Somehow always topical; it might be a blood pressure...

March 17, 2020

2020 has thrown up more than its share of curveballs. Pressure around jobs, income, cancelled plans, changing circumstances and breaks in our day to day structure and routines impacted most people. True to the nature of Tough Guy Book Club - it’s much more...

January 09, 2020

Name: Lucas Earl Chapter: Southbank Who are you: I'm just your average late 20s early 30s bloke struggling to balance work, friendships, hobby and starting my own family. How long have you been with TGBC: Somewhere close to 4yrs, longer than I’ve been with...

December 20, 2019

Anticipation. End of Year Book Swap is all about anticipation. It’s not just about what treasure you’ll get in the mail from some far away Goon, it’s about the book that you source from your own collection, or that you buy and send off...

September 05, 2019

This challenge was about getting outside your normal circle and getting to know a goon you don’t know much about. Blokes have a reputation for not being good at getting out there socially so it was great to see the goons putting a major...

July 18, 2019

The TGBC Model of Care report.

June 19, 2019

We've been to a mountain range national park, a high-country lake, the rugged southern coast and now we're headed to Victoria's longest river. It's difficult to capture a TGBC camp with words. It's different things to everybody. It's slow and steady or intrepid and...

May 07, 2019

Encompassing more than just reading a book each month, Tough Guy Book Club has challenges for members. This started with a yearly reminder to get a blood pressure test and some fundraising activities for men’s health initiatives, over time, these challenges have evolved and...

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

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...

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...

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....