12.00pm (AEDT) – Federal Parliament kicks off 2021

2.30pm (AEDT) – Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Decision (tip: interest rates will remain at 0.1%…)

Back to school for kids in the ACT and the Top End (remote schools)

Anniversary of:
• New Amsterdam (later known as New York) becoming incorporated as a city (1653)
• the Australian Premiers’ Conference deciding to locate Australia’s capital (Canberra) to the coldest place they could find between Sydney and Melbourne (1899). Ok, we might have added the ‘cold’ bit…