10.00am (AEST) – Public Hearing into access to Australian Parliament House by lobbyists – Canberra

12.30pm (AEST) – Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy, will address the National Press Club on how the EU overcame the energy crisis and the next steps in its energy and industrial transition – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Lending Indicators – February 

Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival) – Japan

Zoo lovers day

Birthdays for doppelgängers Robin Wright (1966) and Patricia Arquette (1968)

Anniversary of:

the discovery of the Venus de Milo on the Aegean island of Milos (1820)

the deaths of Pablo Picasso (1973) and Margaret Thatcher (2013)