By Madeleine Heffernan,Max Maddison,Stephen Brook

Copyright brisbanetimes

Back in June, former president David McCubbin announced a mixed dining trial for six months, letting women guests of club members through the dull red doors to allow them to dine at lunch on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the main dining room.

This was designed to arrest falling attendance, as business groups and members wanting to dine with their wives had to seek alternative city luncheon venues “probably nowhere near as good as the Savage Club”, as a club information sheet put it.

Apparently it was a success, with visitation increasing.

The trial was due to run until the end of the year, but some members have already had enough, proposing a special resolution at an extraordinary general meeting this week that the experiment “cease forthwith” and urging that the club revert to its old ways of allowing women only as dinner guests and at suitable club events “whether held in the Social Room, the Private Dining Room, the Long Room, the Yorick Tavern, or in the main Dining Room”.