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That's College Life

Peter Graves and the value of community

Each year, along the Homer corridor with a view of the Front Lawn, a student is living in Room 232. They may not know much about the name above their door. But alum Peter Graves (1972-1974) knows this room well: its thin walls, the sound of his neighbour Fran's laugh carrying through from Room 234, the particular quiet of late evenings spent writing essays, while the rest of the college hummed with life around him. Peter arrived here in 1972 with not much more than blankets and sheets. A few short years later, in 1978, he made a significant donation and became a Founder Fellow of Burgmann College.
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We All Live On Country

A new artwork, woven from rivers, mountains, and the scents of Australia, now lines the entry walls, born from a leadership retreat where 50 students reflected on the country that formed them. Developed under the guidance of Noah Smith, Burgmann's inaugural Indigenous Representative, the piece sits alongside Kevin Rudd's 2008 Apology and asks something quietly profound of everyone who passes through: do you know your own country?
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That's College Life

2026 BRA President Euan Maclean's Mid-Year Review

Euan Maclean's Mid-Year Report captures the beautiful contradiction that is life at Burgmann College. From lugging bar fridges up sweltering, un-air-conditioned stairwells during N-Week to dancing in the pouring rain at the St Patrick's Day mixer with Johns XXIII, Semester One has been anything but quiet.
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A New Brand for Burgmann

We are thrilled to share the new brand for Burgmann College. Honouring the foundations that have defined this community for over 55 years, our original crest remains at the heart of who we are: a symbol of the history, values and people that built Burgmann into the place it is today. Around it, we have contemporised our colours and typography to reflect where we are headed: a Burgmann positioned as the gold standard for residential colleges in Australia.
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