Brain Injury Awareness Week

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Each year a week in August is dedicated to raising awareness for brain injury awareness week. Locations across Australia light up purple and gold to highlight this event. Over 70 landmarks across the nation are lighting up in 2025! Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple and yellow for this event from sunrise to […]

Wear it Purple Day

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Wear it Purple Day (WIPD) was founded in 2010 in a global response to many rainbow youth taking their lives after being bullied and harassed as a result of a lack of acceptance of their sexuality or gender identification. WIPD, is a day to show support, awareness, and inclusiveness to our young rainbow youth. Is […]

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The 9th day of the 9th month is globally acknowledged as International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day, and the whole of September is now known as FASD Awareness Month. FASD is the leading preventable developmental disability in Australia, which occurs due to prenatal alcohol exposure. People with FASD can experience challenges such as […]

ITP Awareness Week

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2025 will be the 10th year that Global ITP Awareness Week has been launched internationally. Global ITP Awareness Week (22–28 September 2025) is a specially designated week during which individuals worldwide join together to promote public awareness of the rare autoimmune disease immune thrombocytopenia and spotlight the ITP patient experience. As with many rare diseases, […]

World Meningitis Day

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

World Meningitis Day is an international day to raise awareness of Meningitis and supports the CoMO (Confederation of Meningitis Organizations) Global Road Map to defeat Meningitis by 2030. Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Dysautonomia Awareness Month

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

October 2025 marks Dysautonomia International’s 14th Global Dysautonomia Awareness Month campaign. Each year building and monument owners are asked to light up the night sky turquoise for Dysautonomia Awareness Month On Friday October 24th, the world joins to 'Turn the Town Turquoise'. Dysautonomia Dysautonomia (pronounced dis-oughta’-no-me-uh) is an umbrella term that includes many different diseases […]

World Pancreatic Awareness Month 2025

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Today we stand alongside the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Alliance and the World Pancreatic Alliance by turning purple for for beginning of World Pancreatic Awareness Month. They aim to raise awareness and pay tribute to those living with the disease and to honour those who have lost their lives to pancreatic cancer. Patients diagnosed early and […]

World Pancreatic Cancer Day 2025

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Today we stand alongside the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Alliance and the World Pancreatic Alliance by turning purple for World Pancreatic Cancer Day along with 126 other landmarks in the country to raise awareness and pay tribute to those living with the disease and to honour those who have lost their lives to pancreatic cancer. Patients […]

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