7.25pm (AEDT) – 2021 AFL season commences with Richmond v Carlton – Melbourne

ABS Data Release – Labour Force, February

Close The Gap Day

Birthdays for Queen Latifah (1970), Adam Levine (1979) and Lily Collins (1989),

Anniversary of:
• the first-ever public ‘bus’ service operating in Paris (1662)
• Mahatma Gandhi being sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience (1922)
• the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty Org (NATO) (1949)
• Alexey Leonov becoming the first person to walk in space (1965)
• the deaths of actor Natasha Richardson (2009), musician Chuck Berry (2017) and Dr Catherine Hamlin (2020)