Green & Gold Day
To acknowledge Green & Gold Day and show support of the Australian Olympic Team, buildings in Melbourne be lit in green and gold (yellow) on Friday 2 August 2024. ‘Green […]
To acknowledge Green & Gold Day and show support of the Australian Olympic Team, buildings in Melbourne be lit in green and gold (yellow) on Friday 2 August 2024. ‘Green […]
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 […]
World Duchenne Day is on September 7th and the colour red represents DMD. One in 5000 newborn boys in the world is affected by a rare and fatal disease: Duchenne Muscular […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ask any dyslexic about their school experience and they will tell you about the gut wrenching fear of receiving back their school work covered in red crosses and comments. When […]
Today is the seventh International Mastocytosis & Mast Cell Diseases Awareness Day. Old Treasury Building is proud to support The Australasian Mastocytosis Society (TAMS) as part of its annual #SpotOurSpots campaign. Landmarks and venues across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are lighting up tonight to raise awareness of Mast Cell Activation Disorders (MCADs), including mastocytosis […]
To celebrate Diwali, the building will be lit in the Indian Tricolours on 26th October and on 1st November 2024. Old Treasury Building will be lit in saffron, white and green for this event from sunrise to sunset.
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. In […]
Friday 28th February 2025 is Rare Disease Day, a patient-led awareness day to raise awareness for the over 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease. Rare Disease Day began in 2008 with 18 countries. Today, participation has grown significantly with events in over 100 countries in 2020. Old Treasury Building will be lit […]