12.30pm (AEDT) – Chief Executive of the Murray–Darling Basin Authority, Andrew McConville, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

2.20pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket 3rd ODI – Australia v England – Melbourne

6.30pm (AEDT) – Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews debates Opposition Liberal leader Guy Matthews – live on Sky News

7.30pm (AEDT) – AFLW W Awards night – Melbourne

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe to deliver an address at the CEDA annual dinner – Melbourne

Lebanon’s Independence Day

Company AGM – Star Entertainment Group; Fortescue Metals

Kimchi Day

Birthdays for actors Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Scarlett Johansson (1984), and model/beauty businesswoman Hailey Beiber (1996)

Anniversary of:
• Middlemarch author George Eliot’s birthday (1819)
• the first interracial kiss on television, between Star Trek’s Captain Kirk and Uhura (1968)
• the release of Toy Story, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery (1995)
• Angela Merkel becoming the first female Chancellor of Germany (2005)
• the deaths of authors Aldous Huxley (1963) and CS Lewis (1963), US President John F Kennedy (1963), INXS frontman Michael Hutchence (1997) and author Bryce Courtenay (2012)