The first National Cabinet meeting of 2023

ABS Data Release – Lending Indicators, December

Golden Retriever Day

Doggy Date Night

Birthdays for Isla Fisher (1976), Amal Clooney (1978), and Elizabeth Holmes (1984)

Anniversary of:

• the establishment of the world’s first commercial cheese factory in Switzerland (1815)
• New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people (1931)
• The day the music died. Rock n’ roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson were killed in a plane crash in Iowa (1959)
• YMCA by Village People peaking at #2 on pop singles chart