12.30pm (AEDT) – Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank, to address the National Press Club – Canberra

Victorian Wheelchair Tennis Open (on until 6 Feb) – Melbourne

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, December

Back to school for kids in Tassie and NSW’s Western division

Birthdays for Isla Fisher (1976), Amal Clooney (1978), and Elizabeth Holmes (1984)

Anniversary of:
• the establishment of the world’s first commercial cheese factory in Switzerland (1815)
• New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people (1931)
• the day the music died. Rock n’ roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson were killed in a plane crash in Iowa (1959)
• YMCA by Village People peaking at #2 on the US charts