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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...