Billionaire boys’ club: trucking magnate Lindsay Fox celebrates birthday with men-only knees up

High profile male politicians, sports stars and businessmen attended Scottish-themed lunch at National Gallery of Victoria - but not their female counterparts

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There were bagpipes, tartan-clad security guards and plenty of kilts, but there was one thing conspicuously missing from billionaire trucking magnate Lindsay Fox's 86th birthday party: women.

The Scottish-themed private lunch at the National Gallery of Victoria, to which the Fox family donated $100m last year, was a men-only affair attended by several prominent politicians, sportsmen and businessmen.

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