12.30pm (AEDT) – CEO of The ParentHood, Jessica Rudd, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

7.40pm (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket – WBBL Eliminator – Perth Scorchers v TBC – Perth

9.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s Soccer – Asian Champions League – Melbourne City v Ventforet Kofu (Japan) – Tokyo

PM Anthony Albanese to deliver a national apology to survivors of the drug thalidomide and their families in the federal parliament – Canberra

Brittany Higgins gives evidence at Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial – Sydney

ABS Data Release – Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator, October

Company shareholder meeting – Harvey Norman Holdings

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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 release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller album (1982)
• 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)