12.00pm (AEDT) – Screen Actors Guild Awards – Santa Monica

The coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker resumes – Alice Springs

ABS Data Release – Business Indicators, December

Company Results – TPG Telecom; Downer Group; Woodside Petroleum; InvoCare; Appen

International Polar Bear Day

World NGO Day

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of author John Steinbeck (1902) and actor Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
• the world’s first women’s magazine Ladies’ Mercury published in London (1693)
• the discovery of carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (1940)
• General Hafez al-Assad becoming head of Syria via military coup starting the family’s rule over the country (1969)
• the deaths of Louis Vuitton (1892), Ivan Pavlov (1936), Spike Milligan (2002), Fred Rogers (2003) and Leonard Nimoy (2015)