7.30pm (AEDT) –2023 Australian of the Year announced – ABC TV

7.30pm (AEDT) – Tennis – Australian Open Quarter Finals – Men’s Singles – Novak Djokovic v Andrey Rublev – Melbourne

Funeral for Liberal Senator Jim Molan – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator, December; Consumer Price Index, December Quarter 2022

Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright is back in NT court

Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

A birthday for Ukrainian President/comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky (1978)

Anniversary of:
• Antarctica being identified as a new continent by Charles Wilkes’ American naval expedition (1840)
• the Beatles hitting #1 in the US for the first time with I Want to Hold Your Hand (1964)
• first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Australia, from a returning traveller from Wuhan, China (2020)