12.30pm (AEST) – Chair of Dementia Australia Graeme Samuel addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

From 6.00pm (AEST) – Start of the Australian Swimming Championships (on until Sunday, 18 April)

Trade Minister Dan Tehan departs for Europe for discussions about global coronavirus vaccination supplies

ABS Data Release – Overseas Arrivals and Departures, February; Household Impacts of COVID-19 Survey, March

Birthdays for Julie Christie (1941), Julia Zemiro (1967) Adrien Brody (1973) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977)

Anniversary of:
• US President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
• Dr Harry Plotz discovering the typhoid vaccine (1903)
• the RMS Titanic hitting an iceberg (1912)
• Justin Trudeau being elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party (2013)