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Australian Licorice Company

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The Australian Licorice Company was a former confectionery manufacturer, located in Brunswick, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The company was established in 1903 and was a leading Australian manufacturer of licorice products from the 1920s to the 1980s. The company became a subsidiary of Allen's Sweets in 1969. Its Brunswick factory was built in 1922 and closed in 1985. All that remains is a redundant chimney on a site that was occupied by Nestlé. The former factory remnants were added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 9 January 1997 in recognition of its historic, social, architectural and scientific importance.

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Australian Licorice Company
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Sydney Road Community School
Sydney Road Community School

The Sydney Road Community School is a small government school located in Sydney Road in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. It has approximately 100 students from Year 7 to Year 12. Established in 1972 at the height of the alternative education movement, the school has no fees, no uniform and no examinations until Year 12. The school prides itself on being able to achieve success with students who may have struggled in the mainstream school system. This does, however, mean that the school often ranks lowly in academic rankings of schools. The school is located in a small former Wesleyan church in the busy commercial district. The building is one of the oldest in the Brunswick area. The school attempts to keep class sizes particularly low in comparison to the rest of the state, although this has been hampered by severe funding cuts in the last fifteen years. It attempts to provide more opportunities than simply academic ones, giving strong attention to topics such as art, photography and music, which allows it to help some students who may otherwise drop out altogether. Due to the small nature of the school site, the school has no recreational or sporting facilities of its own, and as such, the school has had to use those of the nearby Brunswick Secondary College campus (then one of two) - even after the campus closed in the early 1990s. Staff, parents and students of the school were heavily involved in the highly public campaign to save the former campus' gymnasium from demolition in 2003, even occupying the site for several weeks, as had been done with the successful Fitzroy High School campaign. They were ultimately successful, with a refurbished gymnasium opening in April 2005. The site is listed in the Victorian Heritage Register.