8.30am (AEDT) – The Elvis Express departs Sydney’s Central Station for Parkes NSW for the annual Elvis Festival

1:00pm (AEDT) – CNN hosts the 5th Republican presidential candidate debate between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley – Des Moines, Iowa

1.00pm (AEDT) – Former President Donald Trump joins Fox News for a televised town hall event – Des Moines, Iowa

ABS Data Release – International Trade in Goods, November

International Parity at Work Day

International Thank You Day

Birthdays for horse fan Daryl Braithwaite (1949) and singer/swimmer Cody Simpson (1997)

Anniversary of:

• the US Surgeon General Dr Luther Terry publishing a landmark report saying smoking caused lung cancer (1964)

• the death of New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary (2008)

• author JK Rowling completing the final Harry Potter book in an Edinburgh hotel room (2007)