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 […]

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 […]

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day

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

This September we’re lighting up red for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month. FASD is the leading preventable developmental disability in Australia, which occurs due to prenatal alcohol exposure. […]

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 […]

Diwali 2025

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

To celebrate Diwali, the building will be lit on 8-11 October 2025, and again on 20 October. Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple and gold for this event […]

Light it Red for Dyslexia 2025

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

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 […]

Diwali 2025

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

To celebrate Diwali, the building will be lit on 8-11 October 2025, and again on 20 October. Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple and gold for this event […]

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 […]

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 […]