12.30pm (AEDT) – Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce CEO Sam Mostyn to speak at the National Press Club – Canberra

12.30pm (AEDT) – The Lowy Institute hosts a conversation between former Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan and Ukrainian journalist Zoya Sheftalovich called ‘The Russia–Ukraine war: where to now?’ – Sydney

3.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket – 4th Test – Australia v India – Ahmedabad

7.30pm (AEDT) – Women’s Basketball – WNBL Semi-Final Game One – Townsville Fire v Perth Lynx – Townsville

World Kidney Day

Moomba Festival begins (until 13 March) – Melbourne

Newcastle Fringe Festival begins (until 19 March)

ChillOut Queer Country Pride Festival begins – Daylesford (until 12 March)

Anniversary of:
• the launch of the Barbie doll at the American Toy Fair in New York (1959)
• Soviet flight Sputnik 9 returning from orbit with a dog, frogs and a guinea pig (1961)
• the death of rapper The Notorious BIG (1994)
• NASA Space Shuttle Discovery making its final landing after 39 flights (2011)