At Melbourne’s regal female-only Alexandra Club, which has for 120 years sheltered the city’s poshest and most blue-blooded female inhabitants, trouble has brewed all year about the nomination of one Peta Credlin, of Abbott government and Sky News fame.

The once all-powerful political operator and now right-wing TV star tried to join mid-year, but the nomination was withdrawn after internal opposition. She tried again, and on her second attempt has succeeded, as first reported in the Herald Sun. But not without putting a few noses out of joint.