This is an exploratory and investigative paper. It begins with the first question ‘What is a School?’, and then it examines the idea of the Budapest School compared to the most prominent tradition on the horizon of Critical Theory: the Frankfurt School. It then pursues a second question: what happens to a School (or intellectual group of co-workers and companions or small collaborative network) when it is in motion or in global relocation, in this case to Australia? Finally, it addresses the question of cultural traffic and transmission. Is the (or a) final legacy of the Budapest School to be found, in fact, in the antipodes?