Light Australia Green is Australia’s coordinated initiative for cholangiocarcinoma response. It brings patients, families, clinicians, and researchers into a shared operational frame, turning visibility into action that improves patient orientation and continuity of care.

Cholangiocarcinoma is rising sharply.

Yet systems remain fragmented, and patients suffer when continuity and orientation break. Light Australia Green exists because coordination works where fragmentation does not.

What the Lights Represent

The green lights you see across cities and towns are not just colours on buildings and landmarks we admire.
They are signals, signals that we are connected to, that we are organised, and that we are acting together for real impact.

Each green light represents:

• a patient and family navigating this journey
• a community refusing to let this cancer remain hidden or fragmented
• a clinician or researcher committed to better response
• a shared focus on action, not just awareness

These lights are our collective integrity, effort, and promise, made visible.

Landmark Locations

What Light Australia Green Actually Does

Light Australia Green does more than bring attention to a colour.
It brings structure where systems have been fragmented.

It operates year-round to support actions and connections that improve how cholangiocarcinoma is understood and responded to in real time.

Light Australia Green coordinates shared focus
It brings together patients, families, clinicians, researchers, and healthcare partners in a shared operational frame so that real needs are met with an informed, aligned response rather than a disjointed effort.

Improves patient orientation and continuity of care
By connecting lived experience with clinical understanding, this initiative helps restore continuity where it is most needed, at the points where a diagnosis becomes a journey and decisions shape survival.

Supports corrective infrastructure and engagement

It provides platforms and spaces for:
– structured professional and community dialogue
– clinical engagement opportunities
– shared problem-solving between lived expertise and clinical practice
– activation of systems-level progress rather than episodic attention

Brings visibility to collective action
The green lights are a public signal, but the work behind them happens in coordination, strategic conversation, and aligned effort that directly supports patients and those who care for them.

Examples of Year-Round Work

Light Australia Green operates throughout the year to support connection, coordination, and shared focus across the cholangiocarcinoma community.

Examples of this work include:

Cholangio Catch Ups
Regular community-led gatherings are held across major Australian cities. These sessions provide patients and families with a safe, structured space to connect, share experiences, regain orientation, and reduce isolation at all stages of the journey.

In-Hospital Symposium Series
A national series of hospital-based symposiums delivered across major Australian centres. These sessions bring clinicians, researchers, and lived experts into the same room to improve shared understanding, strengthen continuity, and support more effective response at the point of care.

Both programs operate as ongoing series rather than one-off events, reinforcing Light Australia Green’s role as a year-round coordination initiative rather than a single moment of visibility.

February as the Feature Month

Light Australia Green operates throughout the year.
February is its focal point.

Each February, the community comes together to bring shared attention and coordination to cholangiocarcinoma, culminating on 19 February, World Cholangiocarcinoma Day.

This month provides a moment of national visibility that supports the work happening all year. It allows patients, families, clinicians, researchers, and supporters to pause, connect, and align around what matters most.

Across Australia, buildings light green, conversations are opened, and communities gather. These moments are not an endpoint. They are a reinforcement of connection, continuity, and shared purpose.

February matters because it brings people together.
The work continues because patients need it to.

How to Be Involved

Light Australia Green is built on participation that respects where people are and what they can offer.

There is no single way to be involved.

For patients and families
Join the community, attend a Cholangio Catch Up, or simply stay connected. You do not need to have answers or capacity. Presence is enough.

For clinicians and health services
Participate in in hospital symposiums, engage in shared dialogue, and connect with a patient led initiative focused on continuity, coordination, and response quality.

For supporters and organisations
Share the message, support Light Australia Green initiatives, and help strengthen a coordinated national response to cholangiocarcinoma.

For everyone
When you see a building light green in February, pause. Acknowledge the people behind the light. Carry the awareness forward into action, conversation, and care throughout the year.

Light Australia Green exists because coordination improves outcomes.
It continues because patients and families need continuity, not moments.

Thank you for being part of this community.

Landmarks

Each February, landmarks across Australia light green in support of people affected by cholangiocarcinoma. The following locations have participated in Light Australia Green.