GOVERNOR-General Michael Jeffery should rethink his patronage of certain men's-only, elite clubs because of the negative message it sent out, a former Labor frontbencher said today. MP Daryl Melham said the head of state's membership of exclusive clubs was a colonial relic, not consistent with modern-day Australia. The Age newspaper today reported Major General Jeffery was patron to such bastions of male privilege as the Australian Club (Melbourne and Sydney), the Union Club (Sydney), the Queensland Club and the Western Australian Club. "This is a modern Australia. This isn't a colonial relic," Mr Melham said. "The times and values of...