12.30pm (AEDT) – Professor Megan Davis and Pat Anderson address the National Press Club on the First Nations Voice to Parliament – Canberra

1.00pm (AEDT) – Polls close in the US midterm elections

Jack Brearley due to appear in court over the murder of 15yo Cassius Turvey – Perth

Cambodia’s Independence Day

ABS Data Release – Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, September

Company Results – NAB

Company AGM – Coles; Newcrest Mining

World Adoption Day

Season 5 of The Crown premieres on Netflix

A birthday for singer Delta Goodrem (1984)

Anniversary of:
• Napoleon Bonaparte becoming the dictator of France under the title of First Consul after staging a coup (1799) 
• the opening of checkpoints allowing East Berliners to walk freely into West Berlin (1989)
• the birthday of actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914) 
• the deaths of British PM Neville Chamberlain (1940), French president Charles de Gaulle (1970), author Stieg Larsson (2004)