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SUMMARY:Safe Steps 2025 Candlelight Vigil
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlaying 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. \nThe Safe Steps Candlelight Vigil will take place on National Family Violence Remembrance Day\, Wednesday 7 May 2025\, coinciding with Domestic Violence Prevention Month. \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in purple for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/safe-steps-2025-candlelight-vigil/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250515
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SUMMARY:Apraxia Awareness Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:Today we are lighting up BLUE for Apraxia Awareness Day (May 14th). \nApraxia can affect children from birth (childhood apraxia of speech) or can be acquired in childhood/adulthood due to a brain injury/stroke/degenerative condition.\nChildhood Apraxia of Speech is a lifelong motor speech disorder that affects 1-2 in 1000 children. \nCommunication is a basic human right and everyone deserves a voice! \n#goblue4apraxia #apraxiaawarenessday2025 #keystocommunicatesp #aleias_aim #apraxiaawareness \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in blue for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/apraxia-awareness-day-2025/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250518
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SUMMARY:IDAHOBIT Day
DESCRIPTION:International Day Against Homophobia\, Biphobia\, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) Day is recognised internationally on May 17 each year. \nFounded in 2004\, this day aims to raise awareness of violence and discrimination against lesbian\, gay\, bi\, trans and queer (LGBTIQ+) people and to drive positive change to build LGBTIQ+ inclusion. \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in rainbow for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/idahobit-day/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250516T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250516T140000
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SUMMARY:Objects of Connection: The Overland Telegraph
DESCRIPTION: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! \nIn 2022\, a virtual exhibition was launched to mark 150 years of the Overland Telegraph Line. A collaboration between Australian Catholic University\, the History Trust of South Australia\, the State Library of South Australia and the South Australian Museum\, the exhibition re-tells the Line’s significance through a more inclusive cultural narrative\, beyond its place in European-centred colonial history. In particular\, it seeks to emphasise First Nations perspectives on the Line’s paths through Aboriginal Country\, and highlights the vital role of other non-European actors in its construction. It reveals the Line’s important transcultural history – both as a tool of colonial expansion and as a complex zone of cross-cultural contact and exchange. The exhibition draws on the collections of three of South Australia’s cultural institutions\, and the re-interpretation of items of material culture is a key aspect of the exhibition’s approach. \n  \nSpeakers: \nMandy Paul is responsible for the management of the South Australian State History Collection. Understanding and sharing complex and contested histories has been a thread running through her career\, informing her work over three decades as a social history curator\, museum director and collections manager\, and as a consultant historian on native title claims. Mandy holds postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies and has published widely in on Australian social history\, museology\, and native title.  Mandy is also a member of State Records Council and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. \nAmanda Nettelbeck is a Professor of History at the University of Adelaide and the current Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo (2024-25). Her fields of research include a focus on the application of colonial law to Indigenous people\, including through policing and the courts\, and the history and memory of Australia’s frontier wars. Her last book\, Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) won the 2020 Australia & New Zealand Law & History Society legal history prize. She is a member of the South Australian Libraries Board\, and is current chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Australian Historical Studies. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/objects-of-connection-the-overland-telegraph/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
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SUMMARY:National Volunteer Week 2025
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1989\, National Volunteer Week is the premier celebration of volunteers and volunteerism in Australia.\nMore than six million people in Australia volunteer through organisations across the nation. Millions more volunteer informally in their local communities\, helping neighbours and strangers\, especially in times of crisis and adversity. \nNational Volunteer Week 2025 celebrates the power of volunteering to bring people together with the theme ‘Connecting Communities’. \nThis year we light the building red to acknowledge the spirit of connection and the incredible impact volunteers have in building thriving and inclusive communities\, not only at the Old Treasury Building\, but in all volunteer organisations. \n#NVW2025
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/national-volunteer-week-2025/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250523
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SUMMARY:Shine a Light on Neurofibromatosis
DESCRIPTION:Shine a Light on Neurofibromatosis (NF) is an integral part of the NF Awareness Month campaign.\nIn recognition of World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day on May 17\, locations around the world are lighting up blue and green. \nThe Children’s Tumour Foundation (CTF)\, the leading patient advocacy and support service for people impacted by NF in Australia\, uses May as an opportunity to raise awareness of NF\, elevating the condition\, ensuring every Australian impacted is supported and every Australian not impacted is made NF aware. NF is a genetic condition that causes tumours to form on nerves in the body\, including the brain and spine. \nShow your support by tagging CTF @ctfaustralia and using hashtags #conquernf #shinealight \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in blue and green for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/shine-a-light-on-neurofibromatosis/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250524
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SUMMARY:Huntington's Victoria's May Awareness Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Raising awareness for Huntington’s Disease. \nWe are joining hands with Huntington’s Victoria and other Melbourne landmarks to light up blue on May 22nd to raise awareness and support those living with Huntington’s disease. \nHuntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition characterised by the dysfunction and eventual death of brain cells\, resulting in physical\, cognitive\, and psychological impacts. It is caused by an inherited mutation in the huntingtin gene\, with each child of an affected parent having a 50/50 chance of inheriting this mutated gene. While there is currently no cure\, medications and maintaining brain and gut health can help manage symptoms. Huntington’s Victoria is dedicated to supporting each and every person affected by Huntington’s disease. \n#LightItUp4HD \nOld Treasury Building will be lit in blue for this event from sunrise to sunset.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/huntingtons-victorias-may-awareness-campaign-2/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Lighting
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250525T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250525T120000
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SUMMARY:Old Treasury Building: Public Tour (May 2025)
DESCRIPTION:The Old Treasury building is one of very few gold rush buildings still in use in the city. \nThis 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! \nView original plans by Old Treasury Building architect John James Clark\, exclusively available on a tour!
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/old-treasury-building-public-tour-may-2025/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250525T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250525T130000
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SUMMARY:The Constitution\, the Governor and Royal Assent
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/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring Street\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Tour
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250529T183000
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Cold War Spies in Australia
DESCRIPTION:While the idea of Cold War-era spies often evokes cliched images of James Bond or John La Carré\, the reality of spies and surveillance in Cold War Australia was far stranger and far more interesting than any spy novel. Historians working with restricted or highly redacted material have increasingly shed light on these real life spy stories\, from installing bugs in apartment ceilings to rendezvous in cemeteries and draining a beer at the pub opposite the Soviet embassy. In this seminar\, two of Australia’s foremost intelligence historians will discuss espionage and counter-espionage in Australia during the Cold War\, share some of the fascinating stories they’ve encountered in their research\, and reflect on the unique challenges of creating history based on intelligence records. \nDr Ebony Nilsson is a lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University. She is a social historian whose work specialises in migrant communities’ experiences of politics and surveillance during the Cold War. Her first book\, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury\, 2023) explores the transnational lives and experiences of Soviet ‘Displaced Persons’ who were resettled in Australia from Europe and China during the early Cold War and drew the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation with their political engagement. Elsewhere\, she has published on the Sydney Russian community\, migrants who returned to the Soviet Union\, and the surveillance of migrants in relation to the Petrov Affair. \nDr Rhys Crawley Dr Rhys Crawley is a senior lecturer in history at UNSW Canberra\, and the author of the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan\, 2005-2010. His research focuses on military and intelligence history\, with a particular emphasis on Australian military history\, the war in Afghanistan\, special operations\, First World War operational history\, military logistics\, espionage\, and domestic security intelligence. His books include Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (2014)\, The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO\, 1975-1989 (2016)\, Intelligence and the Function of Government (2018)\, Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 (2018)\, and The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond\, 1947-2006 (2019). \nThe 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. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-cold-war-spies-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
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