Good Friday public holiday

World Health Day, marking the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (1948)

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide

Mulletfest (until 9 April) – Rockhampton

Start of Parrtjima Light Festival (until 16 April) – Alice Springs

Birthdays for Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Jackie Chan (1954), and Russell Crowe (1964)

Anniversary of:
• Australian Teddy Flack winning gold in the 1,500m final at the first Olympic Games in Athens (1896)
• the release of the world’s first animated cartoon Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J Stuart Blackton (1906)
• Billie Holliday’s birthday (1915)
• the High Court quashing Cardinal George Pell’s child sex abuse convictions (2020)