11.00am (AEDT) – Cricket – 1st Ashes Test – Australia v England – Brisbane

12.30pm (AEDT) NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet addresses the National Press Club – Sydney

ABS Data Release – Labour account, September; National study of mental health and wellbeing for the 2020-21 financial year; births and fertility rates, 2020

AIHW Release – Life and work experiences of Australians with chronic conditions

A birthday for Nicki Minaj (1982)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), singer/actor Sammy Davis Jr (1925), and rocker Jim Morrison (1943)
• John Lennon’s death (1980)
• SpaceX becoming the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft, after the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon (2010)