10.00am (AEDT) – Cricket – 1st Ashes Test Day 2 – Australia v England – Brisbane

The federal parliamentary inquiry into media diversity in Australia is due to report

The Carbon Market Institute hosts the Australasian Emissions Reduction Summit – Sydney (on until 10 December)

Independence Day in Tanzania

International Anti-Corruption Day

International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime

The one and only Dame Judi Dench’s birthday (1934)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of actor Kirk Douglas (1916) and former PM Bob Hawke (1929)
• the premiere of Coronation Street (1960)
• the release of Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• 2nd anniversary of the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island/Whakaari volcano, killing 22 (2019)