10.30am (ACDT) – Professional cyclist Rohan Dennis will make his first appearance before court, charged over the death of his wife Melissa Hoskins – Adelaide 

12.00pm (AEDT) – ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr will deliver the annual ACT State of the Territory address – Canberra  

12.30pm (AEDT) – Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will give an address to the National Press Club – Canberra 

NAPLAN testing begins at schools around Oz

ABS Data Release – Monthly Business Turnover, January

Start of Brain Awareness Week (on until 17 March) 

Anniversary of:

• William Herschel discovering the planet Uranus (but he mistook it for a comet) (1781)

• Labor PM Paul Keating’s election win “for the true believers” (1993)

• the election of Pope Francis (2013)