The Shudokan was established in 1947-48 and is probably the oldest post-war Judo Club in continuous existence. In 1951 at the request of the secretary of the Australian Olympic Committee (A. O. C.
) formed the Victorian Amateur Judo Union with several then existing clubs to facilitate the reformation of the Judo Federation of Australia from a group of individual clubs into a Federation of State Judo Associations and receive formal recognition from the A. O. C. and the then embryonic International Judo Federation (I.
J. F).