12.30pm (AEDT) – Professor Brian P Schmidt, Vice-Chancellor & President of the Australian National University, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

2.30pm – Announcement on interest rates following today’s Reserve Bank board meeting

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending Indicator, October; Total Value of Dwellings, September quarter

International Volunteer Day 

World Soil Day

Day of the Ninja Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of animator Walt Disney (1901) and muso Little Richard (1932)
• the end of alcohol prohibition in the US (1933)
• the death of former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela (2013)