8.30am (AEST) – Women in Media National Conference 2024 – Sydney 

ABS Data Release – Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, June

Company results – QBE Insurance

Electric SUV Expo – Melbourne

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (on until 11 August)

The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Awards – Darwin

2024 Byron Writers Festival

Singapore’s National Day

Nagasaki Day, commemorating the victims of the second atomic bombing of the city of Nagasaki in 1945

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 

Book Lovers Day

Birthdays for Rod Laver (1938), Gillian Anderson (1968), Eric Bana (1968), and Anna Kendrick (1985)

Anniversary of:

• the opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
• the US dropping a 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (1945)
• the Manson family committing the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)
• the resignation of US President Richard Nixon (1974)