If the new owners of the historic Carlton venue are planning to redevelop it, their job just got a lot tougher after influential unions imposed a strike on work at their popular watering hole.
The Carlton hotel could be protected on the state’s heritage register if a joint bid by the National Trust and Trades Hall to conserve Labor Party history is successful.
The Carlton hotel could be protected on the state’s heritage register if a joint bid by the National Trust and Trades Hall to conserve Labor Party history is successful.
Long before Bob Hawke famously held beer-soaked court for fellow union and Labor leaders at the John Curtin Hotel in Carlton, hard-bitten detectives gathered there religiously each evening.