Dust: Magazine of the Mildura Branch, University of Melbourne, Volume 1, December 1947

Abstract

The University of Melbourne established a branch residential campus near Mildura in 1947 to cope with the flood of returned World War II service personnel wanting to re-train. Several thousand students, many of them of mature age, did their first year of studies in medicine, engineering, architecture, dental science and, in some cases, science at the campus which boasted its own cinema, post office, hospital, shops, library, sporting grounds and annual magazine, appropriately named Dust. The campus closed at the end of 1949 when the demand for university places declined.