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Presents the 1984 cARLTON sQUAT

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A day begins....it's winter time, May 1984 and i'm 16 staying at the cARLTON sQUAT with my boyfriend eGGO.

sUE the 15 yr old runaway is making toast on the fire, eGGO has some hair of the dog.

dOGGI want some too?
i give the camera to sUE and she then takes pics of us.

come on pATRIK, it's time to get up
pATRIK is our resident skitzo, note the nazi tag on his face?
I've seen him inject himself with water just to get a rush from the fit.

Yes they are safety pins in eGGO's face.
Meet another resident, mICK who claims to be on the run from the queensland coppers for blowing up a cop car... yeah ok

now eGGO wants a turn of the camera.
Meet sKIN our resident skinhead

The sQUAT has long since gone. It was pulled down and replaced by office buildings and parking space. Yes it was a very large squat. Infact there were two buildings, there was ours, and there was the other one the derros would inhabit. Their's was totally disgusting, the old drunks would shit on newspapers and lay newspaper over that to shit again and this was just right by where they slept which was a putrid layer of blankets on an old rotting stinking smelly mattress on the floor.

In our building the staircase had been burned out so a few rooms were innaccessable, accept for the fact that someone had belted holes into the walls and placed cupboards infront of the holes. Then they placed ply wood over the hole and smashed out the back of the cupboard so to look in the cupboard you'd think it was the back of it. All we had to do was slide the ply wood aside and creep through. This was because the place had been brutally raided by cops a few times, so we had our special hideaway rooms. It was one big playhouse for us kids and we had to rip up the skirting boards n stuff to keep our fires going.

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