12.30pm (AEST) – Tibetan President Penpa Tsering addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

8.05pm (AEST) – State of Origin Game 2 – Brisbane

ABS Data Release – Monthly Employee Earnings Indicator, April

Red Apple Day supporting Bowel Cancer Australia

2023 National Press Gallery Federal Parliamentary Midwinter Ball – Canberra

World Humanist Day

International Yoga Day

World Music Day

Go Skateboarding Day

National Selfie Day

Birthdays for Ian McEwan (1948), Joko Widodo (1961), Prince William (1982), Edward Snowden (1983), and Lana del Rey (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the first Victoria Cross won during the Crimean War (1854)
• the birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)