9.00am (AEDT) – ChangeFest Conference, Treasurer Jim Chalmers to speak – Mildura, VIC

9.00am (AEDT) – Leadership NSW Summit 2024 – Sydney

9.30AM (ACDT) – Australia-UK Ministerial Talks (AUKMIN), Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles will meet with their UK counterparts – Adelaide

9.30am (AEDT) – Closed meeting before the State Parole Authority for Keli Lane, jailed in 2010 for murdering her newborn daughter. Lane kept the pregnancy secret but has always maintained her innocence. She is eligible for parole from 12 May – Sydney

The Royal Easter Show begins (on until 2 April) – Sydney

World Water Day 

International Day of the Seal

National Ride2School Day

Birthdays for James Patterson (1947), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Reese Witherspoon (1976) and Constance Wu (1982)

Anniversary of:

• the US confirming its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong (1965)
• the Brussels terror attack which killed 35 (2016)
• And a terror attack on London’s Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament, which killed 4 people (2017)