What happened here?
Townes Van Zandt made at least one Australian tour, performing in the kind of small-venue, off-the-beaten-path settings that suited both his music and his character. This entry is believed to reference a performance at a small RSL (Returned and Services League) club in the south coast or tablelands region of New South Wales -- the kind of rural Australian venue where Van Zandt, playing solo acoustic with no entourage, could sit across from a room of puzzled and gradually converted locals and play his devastating songs at close range. The coordinates suggest a location in the Southern Tablelands area of NSW, in the vicinity of Braidwood.
For Van Zandt, the RSL setting would have felt familiar in a strange way -- the RSL clubs of rural New South Wales share DNA with the VFW halls and Legion posts of rural America where he played throughout his career. Low ceilings, poker machines, a bar with cold beer, an audience that came for a drink and stayed for the music because the music turned out to be extraordinary. These are the venues that Van Zandt preferred, or at least the ones he ended up in, and the stories told by people who saw him in such places tend to be the most vivid.
The specific RSL venue cannot be definitively identified from available sources, and the precise address should be treated as approximate. Townes Van Zandt's Australian connection is not extensively documented in English-language sources, and details of specific venues from his tour are difficult to verify. What is documented is the music he left behind and the impression he made on the few hundred Australians who caught him in rooms like this.