Regular Events...
The Club provides a social meeting place for students, staff and friends. Regular events held at the Club include:

• Happy Night (Thursday nights)
  This easily is the BIGGEST weekly event at The Club. They are huge! Our local DJ ("DJ Harddrive") is onhand to keep you in music . The dress is casual and the atmosphere relaxed. Be there!
  Happy Night Photos - Click here
• Bludgers - Bands in the Beer Garden (Fridays from 4.00pm)
  This is the best way to deal with a bad week. Bludgers is a place where everyone is welcome - students, staff and their guests. It features live entertainment each week.
• Other Regular Events
  The BIGGEST time of year for the Club is the famous "O-Week" celebrations. This is a great time for new students "freshers" to meet the hardened older students "fossils". There are even a few All Ages events for those students who aren't yet of the legal age.

Club History...
The Student Club started from the humble beginnings of a "Bludgers' Club" which was run under the auspices of one of the 1981 Activities Committee's affiliated clubs, the "Mullers & Packers' Union". At that time the newly appointed Executive Officer, who hailed from Newcastle, turned Bludgers' into a Friday entertainment event with appropriate liquor licenses under the guise of holding, variously, an agricultural exhibition, an athletics event, etc (whatever the act allowed for a "booth licence") and the Union took control of the sale of liquor from the "volunteers".

It took over a year to persuade the (then) Union Council (and the University to allow the Union) to borrow the money. The JCU Union Student Club Inc was invented while the building was under construction, as a vehicle to apply for the liquor license. 200 members was the minimum requirement to form an incorporated association, so that many members were signed up at Bludgers Club to apply for incorporation.

In those halcyon days of Bludgers' you could buy VB, Melbourne Bitter and Tooheys Old (which was brought up by the pallet from "down south"), a little XXXX for the locals, and some Cairns Draught. There may have been some OJ, too.

The President of 13th Union Council, Peter Chanel Dewes, his President of Vice, Timothy Skewes, and Kevin Pinsker-Watt, the Treasurer finally got the finance and the Club Building in place. The Union's Administrative Secretary (and the Union's first ever employee), Mrs Cavell, did the hard yards to get the license. In recognition of Mrs Cavell's years of service to the Union and her major contribution to the Club's establishment, the Club's bar was named The Cavell Bar.