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The Bush Club is an Australian bushwalking club founded in 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [1]
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The Bush Club is an Australian bushwalking club founded in 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [1]
The club was founded by Marie Byles and Paddy Pallin in 1939. [1] The club differed from others because it did not organise walks that took more than a day. These walks which did not involve overnight camping meant that recent European immigrants could join in, even though some of them needed to report to the authorities each day. [2]
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