12.30pm (AEST) – Taryn Brumfitt, Australian of the Year 2023, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

8.05pm (AEST) – State of Origin Game 1 – Adelaide

Australia’s free trade agreement with the United Kingdom starts

ABS Data Release – Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator, April

World No Tobacco Day

World Otter Day

50 days until the FIFA Women’s World Cup…

Birthdays for Clint Eastwood (1930), Brooke Shields (1965), and Colin Farrell (1976)

Anniversary of:
• explorers Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains, allowing colonial expansion into Western NSW (1813)
• Dr John Harvey Kellogg patenting “flaked cereal” (1884)
• the world’s oldest bride Minnie Munro (102yo) marrying Dudley Reid (83yo) in Point Clare, NSW (1991)
• Psy’s Gangnam Style becoming the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube (2014)