Squiz the Day / 23 May 2024
23 May 2024
8.30am (AEST) – Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll to launch Olympics and Paralympics Live – Sydney
9.00am (AEST) – Directions hearing in the case of Erin Patterson, accused of serving a fatal mushroom lunch – Supreme Court, Melbourne
12.30pm (AEST) – Lieutenant General Stephen D Sklenka is addressing the National Press Club on forging a relationship together in the Indo-Pacific
2.15pm (AEST) – Conciliation between Bruce Lerhmann and his former landlord, Lady Gaenor Meakes, who is suing him over the apartment he was staying in, paid for by Channel 7 – Sydney
ABS Data Release – Labour Force Detailed, April
Bake your colleagues a cake for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, raising funds for cancer
Vesak Day (Buddha Day) – the day of the full moon
World Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Day
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Anniversary of:
US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin announcing his invention of bifocals (1785)
Mao Zedong starting the Great Leap Forward movement in China (1958)
the Good Friday Agreement being accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland (1998)
Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning re-election in a landslide (2019)
Netflix announcing password sharing restrictions to restrict account sharing beyond the household (2023)
Ex footy player and Richmond’s 3-times AFL premiership winning coach Daniel Hardwick announcing his retirement from coaching (2023)
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