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Trades Hall
Worker's Museum and Tour – September (Friday)

September 19, 2025 3pm - 4:30pm

Trades Hall | Worker's Museum and Tour – September (Friday)

Victoria’s Trades Hall, rising grandly from the northern edge of the Melbourne CBD, is a national treasure and a symbol of the aspirations of the Australian people. For over 150 years the Trades Hall building has given form to dreams of a better life for working people and their families. It is the birthplace of organised labour in Australia, and the campaign headquarters of the world's first 8-hour day, the campaign against conscription in WWI, the "Green Bans" of the 1970s, the struggle for equal pay, and the Marriage Equality "YES!" campaign.

Trades Hall, also known as The Peoples Palace, is one of the oldest purpose-built trades buildings in the world. The Worker's Museum is open to all to walk the halls of history and learn about working people's collective campaigns for justice, told through artefacts and multimedia.

Walk in the footsteps of John Curtin, Zelda D'Aprano, Bob Hawke and other giants of labour history, and be inspired by the stories of our movement.

Where
Trades Hall
54 Victoria St
Carlton, VIC 3053
Australia
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Gemma Arnold
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