In the Club: Thinking outside the box

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Concordia Club Director Manfred Koch (R) and volunteer Uta Panayotakis Source: SBS News / Peggy Giakoumelos

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Welcome to In the Club, a closer look at some of Australia's unique migrant clubs. A mainstay of the Australian community, venues like the Concordia Club, the Cyprus Club and the Polish Club have been supporting new communities for over a century. But with many of these migrant communities now well established, many clubs are struggling to survive. In this episode we visit a club that's reinvented itself by attracting patrons from outside its traditional community.

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