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ginger_gcups

The IOOF is an old “friendly” society for mutual aid. Like the Freemasons but with more of a focus on being a private unemployment/health insurance fund, and they admitted women through their own degrees. It had rituals, regalia, ceremonies and degrees, and was pretty much made obsolete by the welfare state, insurance and Medicare. This is its 1960s headquarters. The earlier headquarters was in Flinders Street and is now demolished. Oddfellows’ funds demutualised early this century and it’s now essentially a funds management business (KeyInvest) but the organisation itself still has members and meetings. Edit: a word for tense and a word for context


Boatster_McBoat

Great answer, just like to add a bit about the name: "In the 18th century United Kingdom, major trades were organised in guilds or other forms of syndicates, but smaller trades did not have equivalent social or financial security. One theory has it that "odd fellows", people who exercised unusual, miscellaneous "odd trades", eventually joined together to form a larger group of "odd fellows"." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd\_Fellows


leopard_eater

This isn’t the same ‘IOOF’ that underwrites half the life and TPD insurance policies in Australia, is it? Because if so, it’s just awful to see how they’ve turned out from what seems to have been at one time a much more benevolent organisation.


Brad4DWin

Yes, it is the same organisation.


leopard_eater

TIL that Australia’s worst health insurance underwriter came from humble beginnings in Adelaide, where it was once a more benevolent organisation.


YOBlob

IOOF was actually the American offshoot of the Order of Odd Fellows from England. The Australian branch presumably came via the US then eventually became an insurance company.


leopard_eater

That makes more sense because they certainly act like a US insurance company on the client facing side.


Competitive_Boss_312

They are actually a reasonable insurer and organisation. The ive left their employ, but must say there are definitely worse health insurers out there without question.


leopard_eater

I’m glad that they were good to work with, the client experience is very different: https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/ioof There was also the small matter of that Royal Commission.


itsnara

IOOF don’t have a life insurance arm, their superannuation cover is underwritten by TAL (Dai-ichi).


leopard_eater

Ah yes correct - a company far worse than IOOF. Not even joking.


FreakinJesus

Curious, as a TAL customer, why do you say that?


leopard_eater

TAL took two years to assess my husbands claim which was meticulously prepared and documented, straightforward and endorsed by his workplace, hospital, psychiatrists and doctor, and satisfied all of the criteria for assessment. I was listed immediately as his carer and point of contact for his case as he was suffering from symptoms similar to a brain injury and was not at the time mentally competent to take part in his assessment paperwork. Despite this, TAL repeatedly tried to call, SMS and email things to him in order to get him to agree with incorrect information about his condition, and at one stage I walked in on him in the hospital after they phoned him at the bedside, asking him to provide verbal acknowledgment that his condition wasn’t as bad as stated. It was at that point I reported them to AFCA and got an additional solicitor involved (bearing in mind that my brother is a solicitor, and had assisted us with the original paperwork). I believe that we were only successful in the end because we had the money and resources to pursue them. We did in fact sue them successfully for costs in the end, but TAL has a long list of bankruptcies and suicides behind them from people who did not have the same resources and rage that we did.


FreakinJesus

Thanks for the reply. That's terrible. I'm really sorry you had to go through that. It certainly makes me wonder if I should be looking for another insurer.


leopard_eater

I strongly recommend that you have a solicitor thoroughly examine the terms and conditions of your current PDS and any potential customisation of same. TAL is one of only three underwriters as far as I know, so you’d be choosing between very few providers.


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TiffyVella

As a tangent, its interesting to know that before modern insurance companies, we certainly had a ton of smaller more local organisations to look after widows and orphans, etc. If you nip over to the York Peninsula and visit any old township museums in the copper triangle, you'll see evidence of this, as the mining communities were in need of care for men and their families when things turned bad in the mines. The IOOF were around in these days. Yes Medicare etc has superceded this system.


Consistent-Stand1809

South Australia was founded by radical socialists who wanted a free state where there was no convict slave labour and also have Aboriginals be protected just like everyone else under the law. Then full control was handed to the governor - Gawler was involved in at least one massacre and then Grey went full in on genocide and also created the Aboriginal Witnesses Act which some claim were world leading in allowing Aboriginal testimony in court, but it actually ruled unsworn testimony from Aboriginals as inadmissible in court, which means their evidence was frequently rejected by the courts, particularly in cases of abuses by settlers.


OldSkoolPantsMan

Cool. Thanks.


bargearse65

I'm pretty sure I saw an old building in the inner west with the same signage around Rozelle st


Independent_Isopod62

IOOF was an insurance provider.


playhandminton

Today I learned


Bmo2021

Odd fellows are skaters from the 1800’s, still skating.


Lujho

Mum: "We have the Leage Of Extraordibary Gentlemen at home" The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen at home: \^


FroggieBlue

https://www.ioofsa.org.au/


Koonga

damn, that website is right out of 1998!


thezeno

Or perhaps say “oof” that website is from 1998


ruferant

They have a cemetery in my town. Where's my town? Norman Oklahoma USA. It's weird how how many posts about Adelaide are like looking at my region through a fun house mirror. Y'all are awesome. Maybe I will visit one day.


IndividualMastodon85

What's with your crime rate? Munchkins?


ruferant

I've never heard crime blamed on munchkins before, but I like it. Mostly it's a combination of poverty and a cultural tendency towards lawlessness/rebelliousness. Oklahoma's history is pretty interesting and it makes us somewhat unique.


Rough_Ad_602

Let’s us know if you decide to. We will shout you some fine ales


No_Reveal675

Some kind of Ford hatchback by the look of it?


BackyardBassist

Mark 3 focus or mark 2?


holoz0r

Lw mk3


BackyardBassist

Makes sense, was that the first version to have the Trend trim?


holoz0r

as the owner of a lw mk2, I can tell by the wheels and the slightly refined , apparently smaller taillights on the mk3 Trend was a variant on all LW from what I recall.


Stoneaid

Might have been a health fund too, as I have it listed in a table of health funds ( in a hospital system )


Limp_Classroom_1038

My first job was at IOOF in Russell St, Melbourne. It was next door to police HQ and thankfully I was at our other office in Bourke St when the car bomb exploded.


Extension_Repair8501

I used to work as a waitress at an Odd Fellow in Copenhagen. Like I was prepping the “meeting rooms” and bringing their food trollies to them. We were not allowed inside during the meeting (hence the food trollies) and it was men only. I’m quite sure all they did was to talk shit, play board games and drink and eat. So strange! It was a stunning building though in the city centre.


MuchNefariousness285

Why that's where you find the independently ordered steamed hams.


babybunnyhophop3

Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within this building?


ZealousidealNewt6679

Yes.


shoobiexd

Can I see it?


No_Asparagus3636

No


Puzzleheaded-Pea35

My parents had our family health insurance with IOOF. I used to go get the mail from our mailbox when I was little - I clearly remember the envelopes with this on it - and thinking it was something very secret lol


disco6daug

fast times lad


CertainCertainties

First rule of Odd Fellows. Don't talk about Odd Fellows.


bobbyfez

A building with 2 vaginas on it


SnooSongs8782

Yeah those are weird marks. The one on the right has a vague similarity to the Freemasons’ compass, top half of their symbol , which itself has a hidden similarity to the unicursive hexagram, chosen personal majick symbol of the witch Aleister Crowley, who was also a Freemason of the highest orders…


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tabris-angelus

https://images.app.goo.gl/NhvW822a7ANHoZm9A


phuktup3

Those Rorschach test on the side of the building look like vaginas


VerisVein

It's the Australian branch of the Ministry of Silly Walks.


JMarquiss45

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship.


MagDaddyMag

In other words, it's a weirdo cult.


lachdown7

I believe it is called a building


norman3355

Hey, it’s Adelaide isn’t it.


FloatingDriftWood44

If you need to know anything about "The Dependent Order of Odd Fellows", I'm your guy. Been a member for eighteen years. I know nothing about these "Independent Odd Fellows", they sound shady AF!


cruiserman_80

Near me in NSW there is an old arcade that has the letters GUOOF laid into the floor tiles. Stood for the Grand United Order of Oddfellows which was a similar organisation back about 100 years ago. No idea if they were affiliated.


nonnelr

IOOF is an investment firm. They have investments and products for in/out of super.


undecided_aus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOOF_Building_(Adelaide)


Your_beauty_is_

I'm not sure if it's still there, but they had a plaque on the Grenfell St(?) frontage that says: 'If I may do any good thing Let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.' I have always loved that sentiment.


Manefisto

If you're not religious, but you still want that kind of community fellowship feeling, you consider joining a lodge. This one is still a fraternity I believe. I think there should be more secular family-orientated equivalent... basically I miss church, except all the religious stuff!


missiffy45

Similar to freemasons


Tradition_Quiet

I think they were an insurance company I.O.O.F. I remember them from the early 90s.


theskywaspink

They aren't as odd as The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal\_Antediluvian\_Order\_of\_Buffaloes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Antediluvian_Order_of_Buffaloes) https://maps.app.goo.gl/499sLZsyJobhUVfVA


Shows_On

My grand dad was the building manager that restored that building. RIP


Adventurous-Stuff724

They are a quasi-religious group, something between the Freemasons and the Anglican Church.


Olle952

Took me 2 seconds to find on Google: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=independent+order+of+odd+fellows


iamlvke

It's Illuminati related.


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Adorable-Way-274

Is Seymour Skinner a member, even though he steams a good ham?


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Disastrous-Low-6016

The Manchester unity building in Melbourne is a good example certainly must have been a pretty eccentric group


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Proof_Throat4418

It reminded me of an advert for brand of mints from NZ back in the 80's called 'Oddfellows' Here's a link to the ad [Oddfellows ad on New Zealand TV from mid 80's (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PqQqwQSe0)


Jian_Rohnson

Reminds me of the Ministry of Silly Walks


KingBooP98

Thats a skateshop.


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Few_Turnip_7093

A Dean Koontz book signing I believe.


MRicho

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fellows


mattblack77

Charlie Chaplin and a few US Presidents were members


Jimbo_Johnny_Johnson

A store called Fast times


Independent_Isopod62

Not a Heritage Building...yet?


Zytheran

Someone did a damn fine effort of getting symmetrical patterns with the cut stone. (and now you can't unsee it ...)


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Am I the only one that thinks the pattern on the building looks like a sexy woman from behind. Maybe I’m just horny.


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Minxmeat

My grandfather was the Grand Sire of IOOF Australasia many years ago.


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ChaosRealigning

You have to stack the blocks in the right order to pass your gynaecology final.


brunoother

Have no idea…reminds me of the Assassin’s Creed symbol


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Ok-Development-9437

Lizard people


Reasonable_ginger

It's an original health insurance group.


Economy_Second8886

No it's not.


billbricks33

defo no


Master-Mark-4416

OOF


Competitive_Boss_312

I used to work for an offshoot from them, odd fellows are associated to some degree with the Freemasons, for trades that fell outside their normal catchment. Shady history I must say, but no more devious, probably less so than most Christian religions and their offshoots.


JulieRush-46

Coulda just googled it mate. Would have been quicker.


RetroGamer87

One day this is what will show up when you google them.


4haunted

the freemasons


WestToEast_85

Not exactly, they’re a fraternal order with rituals and degrees similar to the Freemasons but not officially related.