Friday
11.30am (AEDT) – Reserve Bank releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy

1.45pm (AEDT) – Tasmanian Australian of the Year award ceremony – Hobart

7.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup – Australia v Afghanistan – Adelaide

7.10pm (AEDT) – AFLW qualifying final – Melbourne v Adelaide – Melbourne

Western Australia’s state of emergency ends

ABS release – Retail trade figures, September

Company AGM – Qantas

Tonga’s National Day

Roast Dinner Day – UK

A birthday for actor Matthew McConaughey (1969)

Anniversary of:
• the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt
• James Ritty patenting the first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio (1879)
• archeologist Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (1922)
• the premiere of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
• the election of Republican Ronald Reagan (1980) and Barack Obama becoming the first African-American to be elected President of the US (2008)