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 […]

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. […]

The Great Australian Dream- A Home of our Own

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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. […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Consuming Fashion: Fibres and Fun in the 1960s

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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 […]

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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 […]