From 11.00am (AEDT) – The Australian Open begins in Melbourne. Watch out for Naomi Osaka at 12.15pm, and Ash Barty at 7.00pm – broadcast on Nine

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

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, November 2021 (Additional Information)

Martin Luther King Jr Day

International Mentoring Day

Birthdays for Aussie netball legend Liz Ellis (1973), actor Jim Carrey (1962) and former First Lady Michelle Obama (1964)

Anniversary of the start of the 13-year-long prohibition on alcohol in the US (1920)