Wow!... Are you guys for real? You used to have men only pubs in Oz? I thought the thread was a joke until I read further.

That is saaad....
Maybe it's a cultural thing. I noticed the same when I lived in England for a while that the blokes would go out on one end of the room and the girls in another. I'd be on the girl's side chatting to them for sure. What were they thinking?