7.45pm (AEST) – Women’s State of Origin Game 2 – Townsville

9.00pm (AEST) – Women’s Ashes – One-Off Test – Australia v England – Nottingham

ABS Data Release – Characteristics of Australian Business, 2021-22 financial year; Film, Television and Digital Games, Australia 2021-22 financial year

Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year

The premiere of new Wes Anderson flick Asteroid City and season 2 of SATC sequel And Just Like That… on Foxtel/Binge

Birthdays for Meryl Streep (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953), and Dan Brown (1964)

Anniversary of:
• Galileo Galilei being forced to recant his view that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (1633)
• Princess Elizabeth meeting her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece (1939)
• Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union during WWII (1941)
• the deaths of Judy Garland (1969) and Fred Astaire (1987)
• a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people (2022)