12.30pm (AEDT) – Amy Pope AO will address the National Press Club on the global competition for talent – Canberra

King Tupou VI of Tonga will travel to Vava’u for talks with the Tongan PM

ABS Data Release – Detailed Labour Force; Retail Trade; Job Vacancies, February 

ABS Data Release – National Accounts; Finance and Wealth, December 

Bluesfest 2024 begins – Byron Bay (until 1 April)

Holy Thursday (Lent finishes)

Birthdays for Michael Parkinson (1935), Vince Vaughn (1970), Julia Stiles (1981) and Lady Gaga (1986)

Anniversary of:

• the Louvre being opened to the public (1794)
• the end of the Spanish Civil War (1939)
• the death of Virginia Woolf (1941)
• the world’s largest dinosaur footprint found in Western Australia (2017)
• And, Cyclone Debbie making landfall in northeast Queensland (2017)