12.30pm (AEST) – Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill Shorten addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

6.13pm (AEST) – Supermoon rises

Porsche driver Richard Pusey due to be sentenced – Melbourne

ABS Data Release – Consumer Price Index, March

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

International Guide Dog Day

Pay It Forward Day

Birthdays for Jimmy Barnes (1956), Penelope Cruz (1974) and Jessica Alba (1981)

Anniversary of:
• Captain James Cook landing at Botany Bay (1770)
• the mutiny on HMS Bounty against William Bligh (1789)
• the death of Benito Mussolini (1945)
• the Port Arthur Massacre (1996)