8.00am – Booker Prize announced

Both houses of parliament sit for a week

The National Innovation Policy Forum – Canberra

Cyber Monday

Simon Townsend (of Simon Townsend’s Wonder World!) has a birthday (1945)

Anniversary of:
• Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishing the Nobel Prize (1895)
• the birthdays of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940), and guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942)
• Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history (1999)
• the release of Frozen (2013)
• the death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes (2014)