12.30pm (AEDT) – PM Scott Morrison addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Queensland opens its borders to residents of greater Sydney

Commissioner Patricia Bergin to deliver her findings from the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority inquiry into Crown Resorts to the NSW Government. The findings won’t be made public for a couple of weeks

ABS Data Release – Lending Indicators, December

ATP Cup begins (on until 5 March) – Melbourne

The first i4give Day – a day of forgiveness and celebration marking the first anniversary of the deaths of siblings Antony, Angelina and Sienna Abdallah and their cousin Veronique Sakr when they were struck by a drunk driver in Sydney

Beginning of Ovarian Cancer Month

Start of Black History Month in the US

Back to school for kids in the urban areas of the Top End

A birthday for Harry Styles (1994)

Anniversary of:
• the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr and 700 protestors in Selma, Alabama (1965)
• the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster killing all 7 astronauts aboard (2003)

New month, new motivation? Read the email every day this week and you’ll go into the draw to win a $100 gift card to spend at Woolworths. Nice.