12.30pm (AEST) – Surgeon and 2022 ASMR Medallist recipient Dr Fiona Wood addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

12.30pm (AEST) – South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan delivers his state Budget address

8.10pm (AEST) – State of Origin Game 1 – NSW v Queensland – Sydney

11.30pm (AEST) – T20 Cricket – Australia v Sri Lanka

Energy Ministers’ Meeting with Chris Bowen and his state/territory counterparts

Sydney Film Festival begins (until 19 June)

Dark Mofo Festival kicks off in Tassie (until 22 June)

World Brain Tumor Day

World Oceans Day

National Best Friend Day – US

Birthdays for singer Nancy Sinatra (1940), Cardinal George Pell (1941), inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (1955), and rapper/producer Kanye West (1977)

Anniversary of:
• the completion of the first trans-Pacific flight (US to Australia) by Charles Kingsford Smith (1928)
• Siam changing its name to Thailand (1949)
• the publication of George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)
• the death of Anthony Bourdain (2018)