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SUMMARY:Good Friday Appeal 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Good Friday Appeal is a charity that raises money to enable The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne to provide world class care for our children.\n2026 marks the 95th Appeal\, bringing all sectors of the community together to raise funds. From spare change to major fundraisers\, every contribution helps deliver world-class care. \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in purple and green for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/good-friday-appeal-2026/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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SUMMARY:World Haemophilia Day
DESCRIPTION:Tonight\, Old Treasury Building will turn red in support of World Haemophilia Day. Join us as we raise awareness of haemophilia\, von Willebrand disease\, rare clotting factor deficiencies\, inherited platelet disorders and other rare bleeding disorders. \nThis year’s theme\, ‘Diagnosis: First step to care’ highlights the hundreds of thousands of people with bleeding disorders worldwide – including women and girls – whose lack of a diagnosis means they are missing out on basic care and support. \n#WHD2026 #LightitupRed @HaemophiliaFoundationAustralia \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in red for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/world-haemophilia-day/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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SUMMARY:Safe Steps 2026 Candlelight Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Every year on National Family Violence Remembrance Day\, Safe Steps brings the community\, sector leaders and key stakeholders together to honour and remember loved ones and provide a space to share stories of resilience\, ignite hope and motivate change. \nNational Family Violence Remembrance Day is the first Wednesday of May each year\, as part of Domestic Violence Prevention Month. \nThis year\, the Safe Steps Candlelight Vigil will take place on Wednesday 6 May 2026. \nLed by courageous survivors and passionate advocates\, the Safe Steps Candlelight Vigil unites Victoria in a powerful tribute and empowers anyone experiencing violence to reach out for support when they can\, helping to interrupt intergenerational trauma and prevent further loss of\nlife. \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/safe-steps-2026-candlelight-vigil/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Belief\, Magic and the Supernatural: the Power of Objects
DESCRIPTION:We live surrounded by material things. Some are mundane and utilitarian\, others exotic objects of desire\, but all our belongings have something to say about who we are and how we live. Objects reflect both culture and history. Individually and collectively\, they shape our lives\, link us to others and connect us to the past. Yet objects are often strangely absent from accounts of past lives. This seminar series aims to unpack some of the stories that objects can tell about the present and about the past.  We also hope to provide a forum for discussion for those of us interested in material histories. We aim to cast the net widely\, with no limitations on either time or space. \n  \nFirst speaker: \nA Boot in the Wall: Folk Magic in Gold-Rush Victoria? \nThis talk starts with a single\, mud-caked leather boot found sealed inside a small compartment in a Ballarat building and asks why anyone would hide footwear in a wall. Drawing on the Australian Magic Research Project’s fieldwork in Victoria\, I explore concealed shoes as protective charms\, links to British and European folk belief\, and what these quiet acts of “everyday magic” reveal about anxiety\, migration and community life in nineteenth-century Australia. \nDr David Waldron is Associate Professor of History at Federation University Australia. His research focuses on folklore\, local history and community heritage. His works include Sign of the Witch\, Snarls from the Tea-Tree and Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum\, and the award-winning podcast Tales from Rat City. \n  \nSecond speaker: \nRuma Besar (The Big House): Encountering the Supernatural in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands \nThis paper focuses on Oceania House\, a colonial-era mansion located in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Now privately owned\, it was formerly home to the Clunies Ross family\, who operated a coconut plantation using the labour of “Malay” indentured workers until the islands’ integration with Australia in 1984. Known locally as Ruma Besar or “the Big House\,” it is believed by the local Cocos Malays to be a site of supernatural activity following the departure of its original owners. This research situates these beliefs within the broader Malay-Muslim context and considers what they reveal about tensions between official heritage narratives and local understandings of the past. In doing so\, it examines how supernatural beliefs provide a means of engaging with difficult histories and heritage and its impact on the present day lives of the community. \nMelathi Saldin is a Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. An archaeologist and critical heritage scholar\, Melathi’s research looks at the relationship between difficult heritage\, local communities and cultural resilience. She is an International Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and Co-Chair of the Sri Lanka ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction (2023). \n  \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/material-histories-belief-magic-and-the-supernatural-the-power-of-objects/
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SUMMARY:The Constitution\, the Governor and Royal Assent (Law Week 2026)
DESCRIPTION:They say if you don’t remember your past\, you are doomed to repeat it. But how much to we remember about our past? And is it still relevant? \nThe Australian Constitution was drafted about 130 years ago. There have been eight amendments to it since\, the last one in 1977. It rules many parts of the way we are governed. But what is included? And crucially\, what is excluded? \nThe roles of Governor-General and state Governor are enshrined in that Constitution. They are the final word on whether a law is legal! The Governor of Victoria and the Executive Council have met in the Old Treasury Building for over 160 years! The Governor-General and the federal Executive Council also met in the building for a time after Federation. Every law passed in Victoria since 1862 has become an Act in the Old Treasury Building with the granting of Royal Assent. This crucial last step cannot occur without it. On this tour you will visit that room\, still in use today\, and discuss the role of the Old Treasury Building in our democratic past\, present and future. \nIn this special presentation of our regular public tour\, presented as part of Victoria’s Law Week\, discover the Constitution\, the Governor and Royal Assent\, but also the way in which ‘direct democracy’ can influence law makers.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/the-constitution-the-governor-and-royal-assent-2/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Tour
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