Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision: AFL Maddie’s Match

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

The annual AFL Maddie’s Match between St Kilda and Richmond is held this year on 13 August at 3.20pm, to raise awareness and funds for patients and families living with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. Buildings in the CBD will light up for for Maddie’s Vision and in memory of Maddie Riewoldt. Old Treasury Building will […]

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 lack of acceptance of their sexuality or gender identification. To be held on Fri 25TH Aug, 2023. WIPD, is a day to show support, awareness, […]

Material Histories: Early Toilets

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The next installment in the seminar series from Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects!   Sarah Hayes: Toileting early Melbourne: The political landscape and lived reality of chamber pots, cesspits and night pans What made Smellbourne so […]

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AFL Women’s Opening Round

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

To acknowledge the opening round of the 2023 AFL Women’s league. Old Treasury Building will be lit in orange for this event from sunrise to sunset.

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne, VIC, 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 […]

International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

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

To acknowledge International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Old Treasury Building will be lit in gold (or yellow) from dusk on Tuesday 12 September 2023. Throughout September, the Children’s Cancer Foundation will be ‘going gold’ to raise money and awareness. Old Treasury Building will be lit in yellow for this event from sunrise to sunset.

ITP Awareness Week

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

This week is #ITPAwarenessWeek, where we help to raise awareness for patients living with the rare blood autoimmune disease #ImmuneThrombocytopenia or ITP. A rare disease where the body’s immune system attacks platelets. Platelets assist the blood in clotting, and ITP Patients have a low platelet count. ITP impacts approx. 1 in 10,000 Australians; it affects […]

Australia’s Broken Years? Joan Beaumont in conversation with Alistair Thomson

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Historian Joan Beaumont’s books Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013) and Australia’s Great Depression (2022) offer profound reinterpretations of those pivotal events of the early twentieth century. In conversation with Alistair Thomson (Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend, 2013), Joan will reflect on what brought her to the study of the Great War and the Great Depression, […]

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A Lifetime of Labour: Kids at Work in Victoria’s Past

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We now expect childhood to be a time of play and learning, but that is a relatively recent development. In the past, many children were expected to work for their keep, and their working lives could begin very early by modern standards. In the country children minded sheep, milked cows and looked after poultry. In […]

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#SpotOurSpots for Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Diseases

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

20 October 2023 marks the 6th International Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Diseases Awareness Day. This year over 100 landmarks and venues across Australia will light up purple around Awareness Day to raise awareness of Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Diseases – a broad family of rare diseases that can be life threatening and are very often […]