12.30pm (AEDT) – Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and journalist Peter Greste address the National Press Club – Canberra

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Start of the 2023 Australian Cyber Conference (until 19 October) – Melbourne

A birthday for Eminem (1972)

Anniversary of:
• Queensland decriminalising abortion (2018)
• the birthdays of Arthur Miller (1915) and Rita Hayworth (1918)
• the death of Frederic Chopin (1849)