8.45am (AEDT) Public Hearing: Independent Review of Secrecy Laws – Canberra

8.45am (AEDT) Cyber Wardens: Cyber Security Summit – Canberra

9.00am (AEDT) Senate Inquiry Hearing into the closure of banks in rural and regional Australia – Canberra

Counting begins for 2024 SA First Nations Voice Election – Adelaide

Federal Parliament sitting – both Houses (until 28 March) – Canberra

Independence Day – Greece

Freedom Day – Belarus

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade  

International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members 

Birthdays for Gloria Steinem (1934), Elton John (1947) and Sarah Jessica Parker (1965)

Anniversary of:

• the first Easter, according to calendar maker Dionysius Exiguus (31)
• the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire (1807)
• the debut of The Bachelor in the US (2002)
• And Labour won the NSW State election, putting an end to 12 years of Coalition rule (2023)