10.00am (AEDT) – Inquest findings from the Black Summer bushfires of 2019/20 in NSW published – Sydney

11.45am (AEDT) – Australian aquatics uniform for the Paris Olympics to be revealed – Brisbane

12.30pm (AEDT) – June Oscar, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, will address the National Press Club on First Nations Gender Justice – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator, February

Melbourne International Comedy Festival begins (until 23 April) – Melbourne

World Theatre Day

Birthdays for Quentin Tarantino (1963), Mariah Carey (1971) and Fergie (1975)

Anniversary of:

• The patenting of kerosene (1855)
• Billie Holiday playing in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall 11 days after being released from prison (1948)
• Suharto officially succeeding Sukarno as president of Indonesia (1968)
• The worst aviation disaster in history when two Boeing 747s collided in Spain, killing 583 people (1977)
• And the anniversary of the detention centre fire in the border city of Ciudad Juarez Mexico, killing 40 people (2023)