12.30pm (AEDT) – ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gotlieb addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending Indicator, February; Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, February

International Day of Human Space Flight

Birthdays for David Letterman (1947), Magda Szubanski (1961), Shannen Doherty (1971), Clare Danes (1979), and Saoirse Ronan (1994)

Anniversary of:
• the publication of Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (1857)
• the beginning of the US Civil War with the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)
• US President Bill Clinton cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit (1999)