7.05pm (AEDT) – Women’s T20 International Series Cricket, Game 3 – Australia v South Africa – Hobart/broadcast live on Seven

NSW, Victoria and Northern Territory schools are back for Term 1

ABS Data Release – Retail Trade, December 2023

Birthdays for Christian Bale (1974) and Olivia Colman (1974)

Anniversary of:

• the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)

• the birth of the Ashes legend after the defeated English team is presented with the ashes of a wooden bail (1883)

• The Beatles performing their last live gig on a London rooftop (1969)

• the WHO declaring COVID-19 as a public health emergency (but not yet a pandemic…) (2020)