6.30am (AEDT) – Rugby League Women’s World Cup 2 – Australia v France – England

10.00am (AEDT) – Former tennis great Ash Barty launches her book My Dream Time – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Federal Parliament resumes – House of Reps only this week as senators get stuck into Budget Estimates hearings

Company Results – Westpac

Start of National Recycling Week (on until 13 November)

Hug a Bear Day – US

Birthdays for DJ/music producer David Guetta (1967), and musos Matt Corby (1990) and Lorde (1996)

Anniversary of
• the birthdays of scientist Marie Curie (1867), Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879), author Albert Camus (1913)
• Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected President of the United States for a record 4th term (1944)
• Hillary Clinton being elected to the US Senate, becoming the first US First Lady to win public office – and while still the First Lady (2000)
• the death of Leonard Cohen (2016)