2.30pm (AEDT) – RBA Monetary Policy Decision Statement 

3.30pm (AEDT) – RBA Governor Michele Bullock will hold a press conference regarding the latest interest rate decision

International Read to Me Day

World Social Work Day

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 

Federal Parliament Sitting, both houses (until 21 March) – Canberra

State Parliaments of NSW, VIC, SA and QLD Sitting

Birthdays for Glenn Close (1947) and Bruce Willis (1955)

Anniversary of:

• the first stone being laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona…it is unfinished to this day (1882)
• the Lumière brothers recording the first footage ever using their newly patented cinematograph (1895)
• the first International Women’s Day (it was moved to 8 March in 1913) (1911)
• the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932)
• the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by American and British-led forces (2003)
• the formal adoption of the International High Seas Treaty (also known as the agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction or ‘BBNJ’) (2023)