12.30pm (AEDT) – Foreign Minister Penny Wong addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

WA Premier Mark McGowan arrives in China for a 5-day trade mission, marking his first visit in 4 years.

Term 2 starts for public schools in Queensland and the Northern Territory

Ultra marathon runner/former MP Pat Farmer sets off on a 14,400km run around Australia in support of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament – Hobart

Syria’s National Day

World Haemophilia Day

International Haiku Poetry Day

National Espresso Day – Italy

Birthdays for Barnaby Joyce (1967), Jennifer Garner (1972) and Victoria Beckham (1974)

Anniversary of:
• the invention of modern snooker by Sir Neville Chamberlain (aka not the former UK PM…) (1875)
• the premiere of Game of Thrones on HBO (2011)
• the deaths of Benjamin Franklin (1790), Linda McCartney (1998), Gabriel García Márquez (2014) and Barbara Bush (2018)