Bonza BBQs, Meat Pies & Live Music: Australia Day at Your Local Club

Check out what member clubs are doing around NSW.

Bathurst RSL 

Bathurst RSL will be celebrating on 26 January with a unique game of Australian musical bingo from 2:30pm. There will be $100 worth of Bathurst RSL cards up for grabs for lucky members and guests. The Club is also holding an online raffle in the lead-up to Friday, with 15 meat trays and 10 Aussie hampers to be won. For more information, click here. 

Brewarrina RSL 

There will be live music from 3pm at the Brewarrina RSL in the state’s Central West, along with a sausage sizzle and $10 cocktails for guests to enjoy across the afternoon. For more information, click here. 

Bundeena Bowling Club

The Bundeena Bowling Club will be pumping with party tunes on Australia Day as local DJ JACKDUP plays live from 4pm. The shire-based national park Club will be the place to be for the afternoon as the sun sets over the Port Hacking. For more information, click here.

Cardiff RSL Club 

It will be a big night at Cardiff RSL Club in the Newcastle & Hunter Valley region, with ‘VEGEMIC’, an Australian themed karaoke party. The party is set to start at 8pm with the Aussie anthem karaoke party. Members are encouraged to dress in their ‘Aussie best’ with the best dressed winning a voucher for the Club’s bistro. There is also a cash prize on offer for one lucky singer, and a huge giveaway of Aussie Day merchandise. For more information, click here. 

Castle Hill RSL 

Castle Hill RSL will be hosting a long weekend of fun for their members, starting with Aussie trivia night on Thursday, 25 January. The Club will then have a bunch of Aussie themed lunch and dinner specials across the weekend including a whole flounder barbequed and a white chocolate lamington dessert and $5 Coopers beer. There will also be live music across the weekend in both the courtyard and Lucy’s bar. For more information, click here. 

Club Ashfield 

There will be a set menu and entertainment for Australia Day at Club Ashfield. From 2pm in the Club Lounge you will be able to catch the Tony Mazell Duo performing Australian classics while members are able to sit back and enjoy a $35 three course meal which includes an Aussie BBQ and pavlova. For more information, click here.  

Club Bombala  

There will be a huge line-up of fun to be had at Club Bombala in the states Southern Tablelands. Kicking off at 2pm with a lawn bowl comp, the Club is then hosting Aussie themed trivia, a ‘Mega Aus Day Raffle’, and two member draws at 7:30pm and 8:30pm. The Club’s Woolley’s Bistro will also have a $25 steak sandwich and beer special. For more information, click here. 

Cronulla RSL  

The Shire’s biggest Australia Day event will be again held in Cronulla Park in South Cronulla in front of Cronulla RSL, who happens to be the major event partner of the Sutherland Shire Council’s Australia Day Long Weekend. Friday will see another year of the iconic beachside concert featuring headline performers Jon Stevens, Paulini and Isaiah Firebrace, plus the Royal Australian Navy Band and local Nicola De Sensi concluding with a spectacular firework display over Cronulla beach. For more information, click here. 

Easts Leagues Club 

Easts in Bondi Junction will have live sports on the big screens and buckets of beer for $24 on Australia Day. The Eastern Suburbs Club is also set to have some Aussie food specials on, including lamb cutlets, a surf and turf platter and pavlova. For more information, click here. 

Edgeworth Bowling Club 

Edgeworth Bowling Club will be welcoming members onto the green on Australia Day for an afternoon of music with John Wilson. There will also be fancy dressed bowls with prizes for the best dressed team. While the bistro will be closed, there will be BBQ brisket, sausages and rissole burgers available at the free event. For more information, click here. 

Gundagai District Services Club 

Down in the Riverina region, Gundagai Services Club is keeping it simple this Australia Day, offering members an all-day happy hour! Tap beer, house wine, house spirits and soft drinks will all be available for happy hour prices all day on 26 January. For more information, click here. 

Inverell Sporties 

A special day will be held at Inverell Sporties on 26 January as the Club hosts an Australia Day Charity Bowls Day to raise funds for a local who is currently battling acute myeloid leukaemia. The event will have a bowls tournament, a bowl shootout, Craybob auctions and races as well as lunch, all for $30 per person. For more information, click here. 

Kingsgrove RSL Club 

Kingsgrove RSL will host live entertainment and a sausage sizzle from 1:30pm on Australia Day, along with a mega meat raffle which consists of 50 large assorted meat trays to give away. The Club is also throwing on happy hour prices all day to bring their members into the venue. For more information, click here. 

Lake Macquarie Yacht Club  

Crusoe’s on the Lake, within Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, will be hosting an Australia Day special menu including classic Aussie lunch time favourites and desserts. There will also be live music on the scenic deck of the venue which sit on the lake, where members can relax for the afternoon. For more information, click here. 

Magpies Waitara 

There will be plenty to do and see at Magpies Waitara with a day of free live entertainment, raffles and kitchen specials. There will also be bar specials for members with schooners of Cooper’s starting from $5. For more information, click here. 

Mittagong RSL 

There will be three days of live music at Mittagong RSL in the Southern Highlands across the Australia Day long weekend. Starting with Martini Henrys on Friday in the main lounge. For more information, click here. 

North Richmond Panthers 

Celebrate Australia Day in style at Panthers North Richmond. There will be live tunes by Jack Lance from 1pm, Aussie bistro specials available all-day and delicious cocktails. Later in the evening there will also be Auddie themed trivia. There will also be a chance for members to win prizes with a winner drawn every 30 minutes. For more information, click here. 

North Tamworth Bowling Club 

The heart of the country music festival will be throwing a party for Australia Day at the North Tamworth Bowling Club. Taking a play on “A Day on the Green”, the Club will be hosting the band Simply Bushed for “A Day on the Green and Gold”. There will also be a sausage sizzle, face painting and a jumping castle. For more information, click here. 

Oak Flats Bowling Club 

Oak Flats Bowling Club is inviting members and guests to celebrate everything Australian on Australia Day. From enjoying a delicious breakfast, face painting, listening to live music, a BBQ lunch, participating in free barefoot bowls and games and winning prizes, there is something for everyone. For more information, click here. 

Oberon RSL Club 

There will be music, trivia and bingo happening at Oberon RSL Club in the Central West region of NSW on Australia Day. For lunch, there will be grilled and crumbed lamb cutlets, a mixed grill as well as prawns, lobster, fish and oysters. Once lunch is done, patrons will be able to unwind in the afternoon with their choice of a game of darts, pool, lawn bowls or corn hole. For more information, click here. 

Padstow RSL Club 

Padstow RSL will be hosting their annual pie eating competition again this year on Australia Day. It is $5 to enter the competition, with the winner being the quickest to finish five pies and a schooner of their choice winning the whole pot. There will also be a free sausage sizzle and a live band. For more information, click here. 

Parramatta Leagues Club  

Parra Leagues is offering an Australia Day feat with their all-you-can-eat BBQ on the Jacks Bar & Grill balcony, accompanied by live music. The spread of BBQ meats will include lamb cutlets, chicken souvlaki and tiger prawns, from 12pm to 3pm. For more information, click here. 

Penrith Bowling Club 

Penrith Bowling Club will have live music from 2pm, happy hour for members between 2pm and 6pm, plus over $1000 worth of raffle prizes to win on Australia Day. For more information, click here. 

Penrith Panthers 

Australia Day at Panthers Penrith is going to be jam packed with plenty of fun for the whole family. For the kids, they will be hosting a kids disco in the afternoon, plaster painting and a reptile encounter. There will also be thong throwing, lamington eating competitions, water activities and fireworks display at 9pm. There will also be non-stop live entertainment throughout the day and night. For more information, click here. 

Pittwater RSL 

There will be $4 schooners on offer at Pittwater RSL between 2pm and4pm on Australia Day, as well as $10 frozen cocktails between 6pm and 7pm and FREE finger food. For more information, click here. 

Shelly Beach Golf Club 

The Central Coast will be rocking this Australia Day with a huge live and free lineup at Shelly Beach Golf Club. There are three days of bands planned for the Club across the long weekend. For more information, click here. 

St Ives Club 

Stay at St Ives Club all day on Australia Day for lunch and dinner. There is live music between 1pm and 4pm, free barefoot bowls, Happy Hour between 2pm and 6pm plus a special three-course Australia Day dinner. For more information, click here. 

Stockton Bowling Club

Stockton Bowling Club in the Newcastle Region of the state is throwing Australia Day celebrations for the whole family! There will be bowls on the green in the day, then entertainment on the green from 6pm, pies, pea's and mash from Rust Bistro and $10 cocktails for members. For more information, click here.

The Ary Toukley  

There will be plenty of family fun to be had at the Ary in Toukley on January 26 with plenty of live music and over $2200 in raffle prizes to win for the adults, as well as free slushies and facepainting for the kids. For more information, click here. 

The Shellharbour Club 

Meat raffles, Australian native reptile show, classic Aussie food and DJs until late – that’s what The Shellharbour Club will be hosting on Australia Day. For more information, click here. 

Wagga RSL Club 

Wagga RSL Club is hosting an outdoor Australia Day, with a line-up of social bowls and live music with Zoe Glanville from 4pm-7pm followed by Jez Swan from 7pm-11pm. Clarrie & Stans popup bar will be open serving cocktails. Plus, the Sports Bar will be in full swing from 12 noon with free pool and snooker, TAB, the Australian Open on the big screens. For more information, click here. 

Young Services Club 

Young Services Club will have plenty to do on Australia day. There will be free facepainting and activities like a game of cricket to play. A big Aussie BBQ in the beer garden and plenty of live Aussie music playing through the venue. There will also be a big members giveaway drawn at 8pm. For more information, click here.  

Is your club doing something special on Australia Day? Let us know at [email protected].