/ 09 March 2021

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8.30am (AEDT) – PM Scott Morrison’s opening keynote address – AFR Business Forum, Sydney

12.30pm (AEDT) – Former PM Kevin Rudd to address the National Press Club – Canberra

7pm (AEDT) – Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Aussie academic who was imprisoned in Iran, speaks to Melissa Doyle – Sky News

Anniversary of:
• the launch of the Barbie doll at the American Toy Fair in New York (1959)
• Soviet flight Sputnik 9 returning from orbit with a dog, frogs and a guinea pig (1961)
• the deaths rapper The Notorious BIG (1994)
• NASA Space Shuttle Discovery making its final landing after 39 flights (2011)

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