Minister for Women’s Safety Anne Ruston meets her state counterparts about the next national blueprint to reduce violence against women

World Health Day – and it’s the anniversary of the founding of World Health Organisation (1948)

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide (UN)

Birthdays for Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Jackie Chan (1954), Russell Crowe (1964)

Anniversary of:
• Australian Teddy Flack winning Gold in the 1,500 meters final at the first Olympic Games in Athens (1896)
• the release of the world’s first animated cartoon Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J Stuart Blackton (1906)
• Billie Holliday’s birthday (1915)
• the High Court quashing Cardinal George Pell’s child sex abuse convictions (2020)