/ 12 November 2022

12 November 2022

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1.00am (AEDT) – Men’s Basketball – World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Kazakhstan – Astana

6.45am (AEDT) – Men’s Rugby League – World Cup Semi Finals – Australia v New Zealand – Leeds

1.40pm (AEDT) – AFLW Semi Finals – Richmond v North Melbourne – Melbourne

2.45pm (AEDT) – Women’s Soccer – Australia v Sweden – Melbourne

3.40pm (AEDT) – AFLW Semi Final – Adelaide v Collingwood – Adelaide

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends the ASEAN-Australia Summit – Cambodia

Start of Australian Food Safety Week (on until 19 November)

World Pneumonia Day

Birthdays for musician Neil Young (1945), author Naomi Wolf (1962), actor Anne Hathaway (1982), actor Ryan Gosling (1980), figure skater Tonya Harding (1970)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of artist Auguste Rodin (1840), founder of modern China Sun Yat-sen (1866) and actress Grace Kelly (1929)
• Leon Trotsky being expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power (1927)
• the first known photo of the Loch Ness Monster being taken by Hugh Gray (1933)
• Cyclone Bhola becoming the deadliest cyclone ever recorded after killing up to 500,000 in modern-day Bangladesh (1970)

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