In the evening, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of New South Wales, accompanied by Mr Dennis Wilson, officially opened the Ritchie Family Centre for Supportive and Palliative Care and the Duncan Family Day Surgery Centre, at the Mater Hospital Healing Garden, Wollstonecraft.

Later in the evening, the Governor and Mr Wilson, attended a Commonwealth Day Dinner, hosted by The Great Synagogue Sydney, at the Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park.