12.30pm (AEDT) – Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tony Burke, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

5.04pm (AEDT) – NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket set to finally launch after multiple delays – Florida

ABS Data Release – Wage Price Index, September; Omicron deaths January-July 2022

Company AGM – Medibank Private

Company Results – Aristocrat Leisure

AIHW Release – Australian Defence Force suicide deaths, 1997-2020

World Sanfilippo Awareness Day

International Day for Tolerance

Anniversary of:
• the foundation of Havana after Cuba moved its capital to avoid mosquito infestations (1519)
• New Zealand officially becoming a separate colony within the British Empire, severing its link to New South Wales (1840)
• the founding of Qantas (1920)
• the founding of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (1945)
• Milli Vanilli being stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing on the Girl You Know It’s True album (1990)
• the first case of SARS virus recorded in China, though it wasn’t identified until later (2002)
• the debut of Lionel Messi for FC Barcelona (2003)