Public holiday in Victoria ahead of tomorrow’s AFL Grand Final
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3.10pm (AEST) – Women’s ODI Cricket – Australia v India – Mackay

7.50pm (AEST) – NRL Preliminary Final – South Sydney Rabbitohs v Manly Sea Eagles – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Tonight – PM Scott Morrison meets with his counterparts in the US, Japan and India for the first-ever Quad Leaders Summit – Washington DC

AIHW Data Release – Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in Australia

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of F Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Sir John Kerr (1914), Jim Henson (1936) and Linda McCartney (1941)
• Kentucky Fried Chicken opening its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah (1952)
• the release of Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock (1957)
• the release of Nirvana’s album Nevermind (1991)
• the death of Dr Seuss (1991)
• the release of the BBC series Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth (1995)
• the premiere of The Big Bang Theory (2007)
• the Mars Orbiter Mission making India the first Asian nation to reach Mars’ orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt (2014)