1.30pm (AEDT) – Cricket – 5th Ashes Test – Australia v England – Hobart, Tasmania

ABS Data Release – Lending Indicators, November 2021

The Tamworth Country Music Festival begins (on until 23 January)

World Logic Day

Quitters Day – the most likely day for people to give up on their New Year’s resolutions

Anniversary of:
• the first successful caesarean section operation (1794)
• the deaths of Lewis Carroll (1898), Dorothea Mackellar (1968) and Alan Rickman (2016)
• the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1960)