12.30pm (AEDT) – Treasurer Jim Chalmers gives a post-Budget speech to the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Consumer Price Index, September Quarter 2022

Company AGM – Woolworths

World Amyloidosis Day 

Austria’s National Day

Birthdays for former US First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (1947), singer Keith Urban (1967), comedian Seth MacFarlane (1973) and singer Guy Sebastian (1981)

Anniversary of:
• the first use of a lead (graphite) pencil (1492)
• the eradication of smallpox, with the last natural case of smallpox discovered in Somalia (1977)
• the release of the film The Terminator (1984)
• Jacinda Ardern being sworn in as PM of New Zealand, becoming the world’s youngest female head of government (2017)
• the death of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria by US Special Forces (2019)
• the Uluru climb ban coming into force (2019)