12.30pm (AEDT) – Danielle Wood, CEO of the Grattan Institute, Su-Lin Ong, Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets and Cherelle Murphy, EY Oceania Chief Economist, make their Pre-Budget address to the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Retail Trade, March; Selected Living Cost Indexes, March

Wild Koala Day

World Asthma Day

World Press Freedom Day

Ed Sheeran documentary The Sum Of It All drops on Disney+

Anniversary of:
• New Zealand being proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales (1841)
• Margaret Mitchell winning the Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind (1937)
• Japan’s post-war constitution going into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan’s right to make war (1947)
• the first spam email, sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US west coast (1978)
• the disappearance of Madeline McCann (2007)