12.30pm (AEDT) – PM Anthony Albanese to give a National Press Club address on national security – Canberra

7.10pm (AEDT) – Women’s Soccer – FFA Cup of Nations – Australia v Jamaica – Newcastle

Launceston Cup = a public holiday for the city

ABS Data Release – Wage Price Index, December quarter

Company Results – Woolworths; Rio Tinto; Domino’s Pizza; Flight Centre; Oz Minerals; Scentre Group; WiseTech Global

Financial Review Workforce Summit – Sydney

The Universities Australia Conference returns after a 2-year hiatus – Canberra (until 23 February)

Teal Ribbon Day for Ovarian Cancer

World Thinking Day

Ash Wednesday

Cat Day – Japan

Anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake (2011)

Birthdays for James Blunt (1974) and Drew Barrymore (1975)

Anniversary of:
• the British House of Lords ruling that authors do not have perpetual copyright (1774)
• Wildlife Warrior Steve Irwin’s birthday (1962)
• Scottish scientists announcing they have cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named ‘Dolly’ (1997)
• the Christchurch earthquake (2011)