12.30pm (AEDT) – Professor Allan Fels AO will address the National Press Club on price gouging and unfair pricing practices report  

2.40pm (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket One Day International Series – Australia v South Africa, Game 2 – North Sydney

6.50pm (AEDT) – Rugby Australia Awards announced on the RugbyAU Instagram

Company results – Boral; Amcor; Suncorp

World Read Aloud Day

International Girls and Women in Sports Day

Birthdays for singer Garth Brooks (1962), actor Ashton Kutcher (1978)

Anniversary of:

• the colonial Tasmanian Parliament passing the world’s first secret ballot (1856)

• New Zealand’s worst maritime tragedy – HMS Orpheus sunk off the coast of Auckland killing 189 (1863)

• the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, which killed 173 people (2009)