12.30pm (AEDT) – Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to deliver MYEFO (the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook)

3.00pm (AEDT) – Cricket – 2nd Ashes Test – Australia v England – Adelaide

ABS Data Release – Labour Force, November

Company AGM – ANZ

Qantas to deliver a trading update

AIHW Release – Three reports on family, domestic and sexual violence

Independence Day in Kazakhstan

Bahrain’s National Day

Day of Reconciliation in South Africa

Victory Day – Bangladesh

Anniversary of:
• the Boston Tea Party that saw American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbour (1773)
• the birthdays of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770) and author Jane Austen (1775)
• Shirley Temple announcing her retirement from films, aged 22yo (1950)
• Shannen Doherty (aka Brenda) being fired from TV series Beverly Hills 90210 (1993)

And it’s 9 days until Christmas…