5.30pm (AEDT) – New Tasmanian AFL team to reveal club name, colours, logo and jumper design – Hobart

Federal Parliament sitting – both Houses (until 21 March) – Canberra

Leading Innovation Summit – Sydney

Birthdays for Queen Latifah (1970), Adam Levine (1979) and Lily Collins (1989)

Anniversary of:

• the first-ever public ‘bus’ service operating in Paris (1662)
• Mahatma Gandhi being sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience (1922)
• the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty Org (NATO) (1949)
• Alexey Leonov becoming the first person to walk in space (1965)
• the deaths of actor Natasha Richardson (2009), musician Chuck Berry (2017) and Dr Catherine Hamlin (2020)