6.30pm (AEDT) – Tennis – Australian Open practice match – Nick Kyrgios v Novak Djokovic – Melbourne

8.30pm (AEDT) – Men’s Hockey – World Cup – Australia v France – Bhubaneswar, India

ABS Data Release – Lending Indicators, November

Cycling – Tour Down Under begins (on until 22 January) – Adelaide

The Tamworth Country Music Festival begins (until 22 January)

Birthdays for actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Patrick Dempsey (1966) and Orlando Bloom (1977)

Anniversary of:
• the death of Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon/Princess Margaret’s ex (2017)
• the false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike on Hawaii (2018)