12.30pm (AEDT) – PM Anthony Albanese will address the National Press Club – Canberra 

3.00pm (AEST) – Second cricket Test match between Australia and the West Indies – Brisbane, and broadcast live on Seven

From 7.30pm (AEDT) – 2024 Australian of the Year Awards – Canberra, and broadcast live on ABC TV/iView

ABS Data Release – Prisoners in Australia, 2023

A birthday for Ukrainian President/comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky (1978)

Anniversary of:

• Antarctica being identified as a new continent by Charles Wilkes’ American naval expedition (1840)

• the Beatles hitting #1 in the US for the first time with I Want to Hold Your Hand (1964)

• first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Australia, from a returning traveller from Wuhan, China (2020)