9.00am (AEST) – A commemoration service will be held to remember the victims of flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine 10 years ago – Canberra

12.00pm (AEST) – Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni to address the Queensland Media Club on Queensland’s plan for the energy transition – Brisbane

12.30pm (AEST) – Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen to address the National Press Club on Australia’s energy choice in this next critical decade – Canberra

8.05pm (AEST) – The third and final 2024 State of Origin game – Brisbane 

8.30pm (AEST) – The State Opening of UK Parliament and the King’s Speech to follow 

ABS Data Release – Building Activity, March 

World Emoji Day 

World Day of International Justice 

Birthdays for Queen Camilla (1947) and Angela Merkel (1954)

Anniversary of:

• the execution of Russian Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children by Bolsheviks (1918)
• the opening of the first Disneyland in Anaheim, California (1955)
• the death of singer Billie Holiday (1959)

Thursday
1.30am (AEST) – nominations for the 2025 Emmys announced