12.30pm (AEDT) – Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

AFL Draft day 2

Winner of the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year announced

Birthdays for philanthropist Janet Holmes à Court (1946) and songwriter Don Walker (1951)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of authors Louisa May Alcott (1832) and CS Lewis (1898)
• physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishing his famous thought experiment ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ (1935)
• the release of the first commercially successful video game, Pong (1972)
• the deaths of actors Natalie Wood (1981) and Cary Grant (1986), and Beatle George Harrison (2001)
• the release of Adele’s single Rolling in the Deep (2010)