12.30pm (AEDT) – Transport and Infrastructure Minister Catherine King addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

3.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket – 3rd Test – Australia v India – Dharamsala, India

5.10pm (AEDT) – Women’s Hockey – FIH Pro League – Australia v United States – Hobart

7.10pm (AEDT) – Men’s Hockey – FIH Pro League – Australia v Spain – Hobart

State funeral held for NT MP Lawrence Costa – Darwin

ABS Data Release – Consumer Price Index, January; National Accounts, December quarter

Human Rights Conference is held as part of WorldPride 2023 – Sydney (until 3 March)

ANZSOG First Nations Public Administration Conference – Brisbane (until 3 March)

AICD Australian Governance Summit – Melbourne (until 2 March)

World Compliment Day

Zero Discrimination Day

World Horse Day

Birthdays for actor Lupita Nyong’o (1983) and singers Kesha (1987) and Justin Bieber (1994)

Anniversary of:
• the start of the infamous Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)
• Yellowstone becoming the world’s first national park (1872)
• Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity (1896)
• the US explosion of Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US (1954)
• the release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
• colour television transmissions beginning in Australia (1975)