Old Treasury Building

Safe Steps 2025 Candlelight Vigil
2025-05-07 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
Led by courageous survivors and passionate advocates, the Safe Steps Candlelight Vigil brings Victoria together in a powerful tribute to honour and remember the people whose lives have been lost to family and domestic violence.
Playing a crucial role in raising awareness of family and domestic violence, the Vigil provides a platform for sharing stories of resilience, sparking hope, and inspiring change. It empowers help-seekers to access support before it’s too late, helping to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and prevent further loss of life.
The Safe Steps Candlelight Vigil will take place on National Family Violence Remembrance Day, Wednesday 7 May 2025, coinciding with Domestic Violence Prevention Month.
Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (April 2025)
2025-04-27 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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 for over 160 years to sign legislation into law. Find out more about Melbourne’s fascinating gold rush past!
View original plans by Old Treasury Building architect John James Clark, exclusively available on a tour!

Earth Hour
2025-03-22 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
Earth Hour has grown to become much more than switching your lights off, but that iconic switch-off moment is still an important part of Earth Hour. Millions of participants around the world will switch off their lights at 8:30 pm local time on Saturday 22nd March to demonstrate their support of the environment. This action is symbolic and is not an action to save power. We know it will take so much more than an hour of turning our lights out to have a measurable impact on climate change, but the action helps to bring greater awareness to the issue and demonstrates your commitment to help protect the planet – both during and beyond Earth Hour.
Earth Hour is at 8:30pm local time Saturday 22 March.
Old Treasury Building’s lights will be off all night for this event.

The White Goods Revolution: How Machines Found a Place in our Homes
2025-03-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online, Australia
Few of us can truly say that we enjoy housework, despite the plethora of ‘labour-saving devices’ now found in most homes. Imagine then, a time when almost all domestic tasks relied on muscle power and elbow grease alone. The lucky few employed domestic servants to do this work. (Of course, the servants weren’t so lucky!) But from 1900 fewer women wanted work as servants and increasingly, the housewife was left to her own devices. Enter ‘electric servants’— machinery designed to make cooking, washing and cleaning easier. Although it would take many decades for most households to acquire these machines, the ‘white goods revolution’ eventually reshaped domestic interiors, while machines embedded themselves in our lives. Join Margaret Anderson as she reflects on the history of domestic work and considers the rise and rise of domestic appliances.
Presented as part of the ‘Belongings: Objects and Family Life‘ exhibition on display at the Old Treasury Building until September 2025.

World Kidney Day
2025-03-13 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
Kidney disease is projected to become the 5th leading cause of death worldwide by 2050, rising from the 18th leading cause in 1990. Sadly, 1.8 million Australians are completely unaware they are living with kidney disease. As they progress toward kidney failure, many of these people will either require a transplant or kidney dialysis to stay alive.
While kidney disease continues to soar, dialysis treatment has barely changed in 50 years – and it takes away people’s quality of life, their freedom and their time. This World Kidney Day, we continue to call for greater investment in kidney disease and a change to the status quo.
It’s time to join the kidney revolution!
#WorldKidneyDayAU #WorldKidneyDayAU #jointhekidneyrevolution
Old Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.

National Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome Awareness Week
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-09, 2025-03-03 - 2025-03-05 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
Every three days, an Australian is diagnosed with a Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome.
The aim of National Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome Awareness Week is to raise awareness of Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes and their impact on patients and families, increase an understanding of the work of Maddie’s Visit and the services offered, and to seek the Australian community’s support through both blood and stem cell donations, which patients rely on to stay alive.
National Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome Awareness Week is afiliated with Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision.
Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.

World Lymphoedema Day
2025-03-06 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
March is Lymphoedema Awareness Month, and Old Treasury Building is lighting up in blue and teal to raise awareness of lymphoedema.
Lymphoedema is the term given to swellingresulting from malfunction of the lymphatic system. It impacts adversely on the physical, emotional, social and financialwellbeing of people living with the condition.
#ShineALightOnLymphoedema #ShineALight #Lymphoedema #WLD
Old Treasury Building will be lit in blue and teal for this event from sunrise to sunset.

The Fashion Cycle: From Retail to Reuse
2025-02-28 13:00 - 14:00 | 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!
First speaker:
All the Latest Novelties: Modernity, Luxury and Consumer Desire in Australia’s Nineteenth-century Arcades with Nicole Davis
Nineteenth-century arcades were marketed as dreamworlds, where the desire for exclusive or exotic commodities could be indulged. They were curated spaces that aimed to have a specific mix of businesses, including shops, that offered diverse experiences and products to the consumer. In Australia, through advertising, displays and merchandising, arcade retailers particularly emphasised goods, including jewellery, clothing, and accessories, that had connotations of luxury, modernity, and cosmopolitanism. These often linked with international locations, trends, and fashions, to demonstrate the Australian colonies as places of progress, sophistication, and civility – where fashionable items could be attained just as they might in Britain, Europe, or North America. This presentation will look at some of the ways that businessowners created consumer desire for their products, from the humble to the extraordinary.
Nicole Davis is an urban historian, working in the museum and heritage sector, with a particular interest in retail and business histories. Her PhD thesis focused on the social, economic, and architectural history of Australia’s nineteenth-century arcades and their place in the contemporary world. Her latest co-authored book is The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes: Essential but Unplanned.

Second speaker:
Alterations as evidence of garment life cycles: wedding dress 1875/1943
A wedding dress in the Henty Costume Collection at the Kew Historical Society, which was made for Alice Henty when she married John Hindson in Melbourne in 1875, was radically redesigned in 1943 when it was worn by three of her granddaughters at their weddings during WWII. This presentation will discuss the dress and its alterations and how such a well-provenanced item can provide evidence of life cycles of a garment that was treasured and reused across generations.
Dr Laura Jocic is a curator and historian with particular expertise in fashion and textiles. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne investigating dress in Australian colonial society and is interested in the materialities of surviving items of dress to elucidate the complex histories of garments and dress practices.

Material Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
‘The Fashion Cycle: From Retail to Reuse’ is presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme.

Rare Disease Day
2025-02-28 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
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 in green for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (February 2025)
2025-02-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (January 2025)
2025-01-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (December 2024)
2024-12-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (November 2024)
2024-11-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia

Making Public Histories: Histories of Australian Childhood
2024-11-21 17:00 - 18:30 | Online, Australia
World Children’s Day, celebrated on November 20 each year, offers an opportunity to both look back on the history of childhood and of children’s rights and forward to the ways in which childhood is changing and child rights are contested.
How do historians investigate and recover the lives, experiences and perspectives of children in the past? How have understandings and experiences of Australian childhood changed over time? And how and why have understandings of the rights, roles and responsibilities of children changed?
In this Making Public Histories seminar, three historians working at the cutting edge of research in this field will discuss histories of children and childhood in Australia.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Dr Isobelle Barrett Meyering is a historian of feminism, the family and childhood. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, which she joined in 2018 after completing her PhD at UNSW. Isobelle is the author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution 1969-1979 (Melbourne University Press, 2022), and her work has featured in a wide range of Australian history and gender studies journals. She was the David Mitchell Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2019 and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Humanities Research Centre in 2022. Isobelle is currently working on a history of children’s rights in modern Australia and, in December 2024, she will commence a new project, ‘Child Citizens: Young People and Australian Democracy since 1945’, supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.
Catherine Gay is a historian and curator. She completed her PhD in October 2024 and was a Hansen Trust PhD Scholar in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research examined the experiences of Aboriginal and settler girls in nineteenth-century Australia using girl-produced material culture. Her research has won several awards, including the Australian Historical Association’s 2022 Jill Roe Prize and the 2024 SHAPS Fellow’s Essay Prize.
Dr Emily Gallagher is a historian and research editor at the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was a history of the childhood imagination in Australia and won the Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award in 2024. Emily is currently working on a book for La Trobe University Press.
The seminar is part of an ongoing series, Making Public Histories, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society.
We thank the series sponsors, Monash University Publishing, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.

World Pancreatic Cancer Day
2024-11-21 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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.
In 2024, it is estimated that 3,902 people will die from pancreatic cancer in Australia. Pancreatic cancer is the 3rd biggest cancer killer in Australia.
Patients diagnosed early and in time for surgery are more likely to live five years and beyond. Early diagnosis is vital, so say “Hello, Pancreas” and don’t ignore the signs.
#HelloPancreas #LightItPurple #WorldPancreaticCancerDay #WPCD
Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Material Histories: Rediscovering ‘Lost’ Objects
2024-11-01 13:00 - 14:00 | 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!
First speaker:
Batavia and the personification of hope with Corioli Souter

This cordon pulle, or jug, is reconstructed from sherds collected from Batavia (1629), which was wrecked inshore from the reef on which it foundered. Decorated with distinctive cobalt blue rings and cordons around the neck, these large, spheroid vessels also have an apron of sprigged medallions on their bellies including masks, rampart unicorns and lions along with the coat of arms of Dutch cities. These reconstructed sherds depict something quite different — the female allegory of Hope — which are reinterpreted with reference to the fragmentary nature of the archive in relation to Dutch women both in Batavia, on the island of Java, and aboard the fated vessel of the same name. Judith Gijsbertsz, daughter of the ship’s predikant, provides a new perspective to this iconic story.
Corioli Souter is a curator, archaeologist, and head of the Department of Maritime Heritage at the Western Australian Museum (WAM) often working in collaboration with other state, national, international museums and collections; tertiary institutions; heritage agencies; community organisations and the private sector.

Second speaker:
Tasmanian Aboriginal Kelp Water Containers with Gaye Sculthorpe
This paper will discuss methods of provenance research relating to a long lost rikawa – kelp water container – collected by Bruni d’Entrecasteaux in 1792 – and rediscovered in 2019. It will highlight the importance of research collaboration and community engagement in this work and the issue of making museum documentation records easily accessible. A workshop organised in Paris in 2022 brought together three kelp containers which were studied using different methodologies and the results which have recently been published will be discussed.
Gaye Sculthorpe is a palawa woman from Tasmania, currently working a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. She has previously worked at Museums Victoria and more recently as Curator, Oceania, at the British Museum (2013-2022). She has as strong interest in early collections of Aboriginal materials distributed around the world and is currently working on a project about Aboriginal objects sent to the Great Exhibitions c.1851-1939.

Material Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (October 2024)
2024-10-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia

Diwali
2024-10-26 - 2024-11-01 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
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.

Old clothes and new looks: Lessons from the past
2024-10-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Online, Australia
A black papier-mâché sewing box, now on display in the Old Treasury Building’s ‘Belongings’ exhibition, would once have been both commonplace in and essential for many homes. This box and others like it – filled with needles and threads, thimbles and scissors, ribbons and buttons – helped women to create new looks from old clothes. Conscious of the pressing need in the present for more circular and sustainable fashion, dress historian Lorinda Cramer explores how sewing boxes were used, what could be achieved with the tools and materials they held – and, indeed, what lessons are offered from the past.
‘Old Clothes and New Looks: Lessons from the Past’ is presented as part of Melbourne Fashion Week.

International Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Diseases Day.
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-22 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
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 and mast cell activation syndrome. MCADs are complex, ranging from moderately disruptive to life-threatening, and are often severely debilitating.
The #SpotOurSpots campaign aims to raise awareness of the need for more accurate diagnostics, better treatments and further investments in research, as well as to build hope for all patients living with MCADs.
See the full list of landmarks so you can #SpotOurSpots in your local community.
#mastocytosis #MCAS #MastCellDisease #TogetherInAwarenessTogetherInHope
Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Light it Red for Dyslexia
2024-10-20 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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 Read (pronounced RED) Dyslexia Network. Red is disruptive and cannot be ignored but it also highlights the urgency of the situation. In effect we wanted to say that it is time to stop sweeping this important issue under the carpet and take action.
Code REaD Dyslexia Network’s annual ‘Light it Red for Dyslexia’ campaign, designed to Raise Dyslexia Awareness by lighting significant monuments, buildings and landmarks RED during Dyslexia Awareness Month each October.
Old Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.

‘Princess for a day’: the wedding dress in Victoria, 1840-2024
2024-10-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Online, Australia
In elaborate white dresses, with filmy veils, happy brides smile at the world in countless photographs. But where did the many ‘traditions’ of the wedding day come from, and did the bride always wear white? Join Margaret Anderson as she looks at the history of weddings and the wedding dress in Victoria, with some surprising results.
This talk is presented as part of the Victorian Seniors Festival 2024.
See the full calendar of events here.

World Meningitis Day
2024-10-05 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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.

Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (September 2024)
2024-09-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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 for over 160 years to sign legislation into law. Find out more about Melbourne’s fascinating gold rush past!
NEW! View original plans by Old Treasury Building architect John James Clark, exclusively available on a tour!

Making Public Histories: Oral History, Migration, Generations
2024-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Online, Australia
This panel brings together three esteemed speakers to share approaches to our theme of “Oral History, Migration, Generation”.

Associate Professor Francesco Ricatti is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the Australian National University, where he is also the Deputy Head of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. He is a former Deputy and Acting Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre, and a former President of Oral History Victoria. His research focuses of migration history, transcultural studies, migrant/Indigenous relations, and creative and participatory approaches to the study of multiethnic communities. He will speak on “Migrants’ oral histories: key challenges and innovative approaches”.

Dr Alexandra Dellios is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her latest book is Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She will speak on “Oral histories about migrant welfare scandals: the challenges of multicultural frames of remembrance”.

Professor Tanya Evans is a Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. She directs the Centre for Applied History and is President of the International Federation of Public History. Her research interests include family history, memory and life-stories, public history, oral history, cultural heritage, history and sport, community, local and regional history, histories of charities and NGOs, history and the media and history in tourism. She will speak on “Sharing Memory and Identity Across Generations: An Interdisciplinary Memory Conversation and Oral History Project”.

The seminar is part of an ongoing series, Making Public Histories, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society.
We thank the series sponsors, Monash University Publishing, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.

Material Histories: Objects of Time
2024-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | 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!
First speaker:
Turning Over Material Histories of the Sandglass
with Matthew Champion
In the early fourteenth century, the sandglass made its debut as the most precise technology of time measurement in Europe to date. Almost immediately its impact was felt: cooks and courtiers, rabbis and scientists, accountants and artisans, began to use sandglasses to time their activities, their lives, and to make their livings. Yet for an instrument of such importance, the sandglass’s origins and its histories remain startlingly unclear. This paper sets out some first thoughts towards a material history of the sandglass and its importance to the history of temporalities. What can we learn from surviving objects and evidence of their use in multiple spaces, genres, and media?
Matthew Champion is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in the history of premodern temporalities and materiality, including his 2017 Chicago monograph The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries, winner of the 2018 Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society. His articles have appeared in Past & Present, Speculum, Sixteenth Century Journal and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. He is a co-curator of the current exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance (Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne).
Second speaker:
Punctuality and Progress: Reflections on Clocks, Time and History
with Graeme Davison
Probably no invention has played a more significant part in the making of the modern world than the mechanical clock. I have long loved clocks and watches. I marvel at their intricate workmanship, their delicate self-regulation and their humanoid qualities. From The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to tell the Time (1994) to My Grandfather’s Clock (2023) clocks and changing conceptions of measured time have shaped my vision of history as much as any human character. In this talk, I will reflect on the histories of some clocks I have known either as museum objects, such as the Powerhouse Museum’s Strasburg Clock, or personal possessions, such as my great-grandfather’s long case-clock. What can we learn from the clocks as material objects as distinct from the knowledge of their origins and provenance? Where does the mystique of the antiquarian end and the wisdom of the historian begin?
Graeme Davison is Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor of History at Monash University. He has written widely on Australian history, heritage and public history where his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Use and Abuse of Australian History, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Changed our Cities, City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia and Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age. He is a former chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria, an advisor to the National Museum of Australia and co-editor of a history of the Powerhouse Museum.
Material Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day
2024-09-09 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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 physical and emotional developmental delay; impaired speech and language development; learning problems, such as issues with memory and attention; and difficulty controlling behaviour.
The Red Shoes Rock campaign was started by RJ Formanek, an adult living with FASD, who decided to wear red shoes to stand out, and start conversations about what is an invisible disability.
Old Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.

World Duchenne Day
2024-09-07 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
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 Dystrophy (DMD). Seems like a small group, but the 250.000 patients around the globe think big and have big dreams. Duchenne Parents have set up organizations in their countries, and all of them work day by day to guarantee access to care, to improve research, to educate patients and families.

The WDAD 2024 theme is ‘Raise your voice for Duchenne’. With this year’s theme, WDAD supports creating a society that provides equal opportunities for all.

Old Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.

Wear it Purple Day
2024-08-30 | Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, 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. To be held on Fri 30TH Aug, 2024.
WIPD, is a day to show support, awareness, and inclusiveness to our young rainbow youth. Is an opportunity to show that we value our ‘Rainbow Youth’ and their mental health matters.
Showing a visual sign of support and understanding, by wearing purple.
Old Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.
