Stroke Week

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Stroke is one of Australia’s biggest killers and a leading cause of disability. Each year an estimated 27,000 people experience their first stroke, which is one every 19 minutes.  Starting […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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