ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE PADDO RSL?

Vote NO to the Coogee Diggers Amalgamation
VOTE NO
Voting Opens: 9:00am Monday 17th November 2025 Voting Closes: 5:00pmThursday 27th November 2025

Vote NO to the Coogee Diggers amalgamation

For nearly 70 years, the Paddo RSL has been a home for veterans, families and the wider community. It’s where we gather, remember, celebrate, and belong. But a proposal is now on the table that would transfer our club — including its $20+ million property that's been paid for and operated by members of the local community since 1956 — to Coogee Diggers Ltd, a for-profit company.
*Artist representation of development risk

With limited protections in the contract to maintain the community spaces, Coogee Diggers Ltd could on-sell it to developers within a few years or less — and we’d have no power to stop it.

How members can vote online:

1. Head to: netvote.com.au/857
2. Input: your voter access code and your Paddo RSL Badge Number where indicated. If you don't have your Paddo RSL Badge Number, just call the Paddo RSL.
3. Follow: the on-screen instructions to make your preference and submit your vote.
VOTE NO

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Why other members are voting: NO

1. Risk of Closure & Redevelopment: fine print on this deal could mean the loss of community space for everyone – our veterans, families, schools and arts. This is a land-grab.
2. Misinformation, Lack of Transparency: true value of property transfer was not disclosed to members to inform their votes. Paddo RSL is not insolvent, doesn’t need to close, and doesn’t need to give its assets away to refurbish. There are other options.
3. No Alternatives Considered: other RSL’s offered support. Transfer of property out of local community management is not necessary to refurbish it.

Wider support for the NO VOTE

"There’s a bit of tension brewing between a number of RSL clubs in Sydney’s eastern suburbs at the moment. It has to do with one club’s plan to merge with another, but a third party says it’s not a good idea."
"A proposed amalgamation between two popular RSL clubs in elite Sydney suburbs has been labelled an “asset grab” for a vastly undervalued property on the eve of a member vote this weekend."

Non-members can’t vote in this ballot, but there are still important ways you can help:

  • • Spread awareness among members you know and encourage them to vote NO.
  • • Share the website with voting instructions: www.savepaddorsl.com
  • • Contact us with in-kind corporate law legal support: voteno@savepaddorsl.com
  • • Provide printing support for leaflets and materials.
  • • Leaflet distribution across the community in the 10 days of the postal ballot.
  • • Standing outside Paddo RSL and other community points to distribute leaflets (shifts).
  • •1,700 current members need to hear the message — every action counts.

1,700 current members need to hear the message — every action counts. Together, we can save the Paddo RSL


Get involved | voteno@savepaddorsl.com