9.00am (AEST) – Unveiling of newest celebrity zone, Illuminate Sydney, at Madame Tussaud’s featuring 9 A-listers – Sydney

10.00am (AEST) – Soccer: Matildas v Mexico (pre-Olympics friendly) – San Antonio, Watch/10 Play

12.30pm (AEST) – Jeff Dimery, Managing Director and CEO of Alinta Energy, will address the National Press Club on some truths about Australia’s energy transition – Canberra 

ABS Data Release – Building Activity, December 23

SA Parliament sits – both Houses

South Korea general election

Hug Your Dog Day – or your farm animals because it’s also National Farm Animals Day

Anniversary of:

• the first law regulating copyright being issued in Great Britain (1710)
• the patenting of the safety pin (1849)
• RMS Titanic setting sail from Southampton for her maiden – and only – voyage (1912)
• the publication of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925)
• Paul McCartney shocking the world by confirming that The Beatles had split (1970)