Carlton's walks
Politics · Carlton
Radical Carlton
Trades Hall, the Eight Hour Day, and the meetings that built workers' Australia.
The southern end of Carlton has been arguing for working people since 1859. Trades Hall — the oldest in the world. The Eight Hour Day monument. The Vietnam moratorium marches that started here. A walk through the buildings where wages, hours and Medicare were genuinely won, not given.
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