Carlton's walks
Ideas · Carlton
University Carlton
The Old Quad, the colleges, and the student politics that ran the country.
Australia's second-oldest university, walked from the outside in. The Old Quad. The colleges with their gowns and their ghosts. The Whitlam-era student rooms that produced a third of his cabinet. Germaine Greer's law lectures. The Baillieu Library and the lawn that's still a protest venue.
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