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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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Shine a Light on Lung Cancer

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

    In Australia, more than 15,122 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year — that’s 41 every day. Almost 85% will be diagnosed at a late stage, making it our country’s most devastating cancer. Every November, Shine a Light on Lung Cancer brings Australians together to raise awareness and funds for life-changing lung cancer […]

  • AC/DC’s return to Melbourne!

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

    To celebrate AC/DC’s return to Melbourne on the Power Up Tour this November, buildings light up red across the city to pay homage to the rock legends. Old Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.

  • World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Violence 2025

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

    This day is to raise awareness of prevalence and impact, and is a call to action for governments and the public to focus on preventing child sexual abuse, supporting healing for survivors, and ensuring justice. #18novworldday #PreventionHealingJustice #EndChildSexualAbuse Old Treasury Building will be lit in blue for this event from sunrise to sunset.

  • Yellow Day –  the International Stand Up to Bullying Day

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

    Bully Zero is a key actionist driving awareness for Yellow Day –  the International Stand Up to Bullying Day. As part of this day, a global organisation will be donating $10 for every photo that is shared of yellow day activities with the hashtag #rideoutintimidation. What is Yellow Day Yellow Day is to show support for International […]

  • 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 […]

  • Looking back on the Swinging Sixties

    Online , Australia

    What comes to mind when we think about the ‘Swinging Sixties’? Is it miniskirts and pop music, street protest, or the Pill? Do we remember rebellious youth and ‘the generation gap’, or think nostalgically of a time of full employment, buoyant wages, and high rates of home ownership? In truth the sixties was about all […]

    Free

  • Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia

    Online , Australia

    Heatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory, erased by the drama of fire, flood and storm. Environmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian […]

    Free

  • Public Tour

    Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (December 2025)

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

    The Old Treasury building is one of very few gold rush buildings still in use in the city. This monthly tour will showcase the exhibitions, including the beautiful building. See areas of the building inaccessible to the general public, including the Executive Council Chamber. This historic room is where the Governor of Victoria has met […]

    $15