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  • 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. People with FASD can experience challenges such as physical and emotional developmental delay; impaired speech and language development; learning problems, such as issues with memory […]

  • Making Public Histories: Australian Fathering and Family Life: Learning Lessons from History

    Online , Australia

    Over the best part of a decade, we've been researching the history of Australian fathering and family life, from 1919 to the present day, working alongside a team that's also included John Murphy, Johnny Bell and Mike Roper. Drawing upon hundreds of oral history interviews from several national collections, as well as memoirs, wartime letters […]

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  • Global ITP Awareness Week—LightUp4ITP—I sporT purPle for Platelets Day 2025

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

    Global ITP Awareness Week 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of uniting voices across the globe to shine a light on Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP). From Monday, 22 September to Sunday, 28 September, countries around the world will come together to increase understanding, share patient stories, and support those living with this rare autoimmune condition. Global ITP Awareness […]

  • The Great Australian Dream- A Home of our Own

    Online , Australia

    Home ownership is once again a hot political issue. As house prices rose inexorably in the early twenty first century, many young people found themselves locked out of home ownership. And yet the desire to own ‘a home of our own’ is still as strong as ever. Join Margaret Anderson as she reflects on the […]

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  • World Meningitis Day

    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.

  • 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 from sunrise to sunset.

  • 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 Light it Red started in 2015, it was about taking back the power of that colour to raise awareness. The colour influenced our name Code […]

  • 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 from sunrise to sunset.

  • Consuming Fashion: Fibres and Fun in the 1960s

    Online , Australia

    The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects! The 1960s is a period defined by change. An era of unprecedented growth in youth culture and synthetic fibres saw the […]

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  • 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 […]