Exhibit 5.1

           [LETTERHEAD OF FREEHILL HOLLINGDALE & PAGE APPEARS HERE]

10 October 1997                                 Our ref    Rick Narev
                                                Phone      02 9225 5604
                                                File no    1811824

                                                Doc no     SYDCA\97276005.A

Barbeques Galore Limited
327 Chisholm Road
AUBURN NSW 2144
AUSTRALIA


Ladies and Gentlemen

Registration Statement on Form F-1

We have examined the Registration Statement on Form F-1 to be filed by you with 
the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Registration 
Statement"), in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 
1933, as amended (the "Act"), of ADSs representing up to 2,350,000 Ordinary 
Shares, par value A$3.64 per share (the "Shares"), of Barbeques Galore Limited, 
a corporation registered under the national Corporations Law of Australia (the 
"Company").

We have examined a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the 
Company, as amended to date, certified as true copies by the company secretary 
of the Company and copies of resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of 
the Company certified as true copies by the company secretary of the Company. In
such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the 
authenticity of all documents presented to us as copies of originals, the 
conformity to the originals of all documents presented to us as copies, the 
authenticity of the originals of such latter documents and that there have been 
no other actions of the Company, its directors, shareholders or creditors or of 
any other person or body or authority, governmental or non-governmental which 
alters, supersedes or overrides the effect on their face of the Memorandum and 
Articles of Association or of the resolutions.

Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, as a matter of Australian
law, when (1) the Registration Statement becomes effective under the Act; (2)
the shareholders of the Company approve the consolidation of capital (reverse
share split) contemplated by the Registration Statement; (3) the holders of the
convertible notes issued by the Company convert those notes as contemplated by
the Registration Statement; and (4) the Shares to be sold by the Company are
sold by the Company as

 
provided in the Registration Statement, the Shares will be validly issued and 
fully paid. This opinion may be relied upon exclusively by you, and may not be 
relied upon by any other person without our prior written consent.

This opinion is confined to matters of Australian law only. In particular, we 
are not qualified to, nor do we express any opinion on the effectiveness of any 
action under, nor as to any question of compliance with, any United States 
Federal or state law or requirement of any regulatory body.

We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration 
Statement and further consent to the use of our name whenever appearing in the 
Registration Statement and any amendment thereto. In giving this consent, we do 
not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is 
required by Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities 
and Exchange Commissioner thereunder.

Yours faithfully
FREEHILL HOLLINGDALE & PAGE

/s/ Rick Narev

Rich Narev
Partner