9.15am (AEST) – Coles Managing Director and CEO Leah Weckert will release the Coles Group FY24 Results via conference call 

11.00am (AEST) – Construction workers, plumbers and electricians are set to down tools on building sites to strike in solidarity with the CFMEU, who are protesting the Albanese Government’s laws forcing them into administration – Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Cairns

Company results – BHP Group, Coles, Woodside Energy

Nationwide Hambone Award winner announced

Independence Day in Moldova

International Boxing Day

World Rock Paper Scissors Day

Birthdays for Tom Ford (1961) and Mark Webber (1976)

Anniversary of:

• the largest eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, which killed 40,000 people (1883)
• the first publication of the Guinness Book of World Records (1955)
• the premiere of Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964)
• Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, being killed by the IRA (1979)