12.30pm (AEDT) – Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

6.30pm (AEDT) – Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock gives a speech at Australian Business Economists dinner – Sydney

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Network Ten, Lisa Wilkinson and the ABC is due to begin in the Federal Court – Sydney

ABS Data Release – Childhood abuse 2021-22 financial year; Partner violence 2021-22 financial year

Company shareholder meeting – Medibank Private; Football Australia

Dutch general election

Lebanon’s Independence Day

National Go Home On Time Day

Go For a Ride Day

Kimchi Day

Birthdays for Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Scarlett Johansson (1984), and Hailey Beiber (1996)

Anniversary of:
• Middlemarch author George Eliot’s birthday (1819)
• the first interracial kiss on television, between Star Trek’s Captain Kirk and Uhura (1968)
• the release of Toy Story, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery (1995)
• Angela Merkel becoming the first female Chancellor of Germany (2005)
• the deaths of Aldous Huxley (1963) CS Lewis (1963), John F Kennedy (1963), Michael Hutchence (1997) and Bryce Courtenay (2012)