9.00am (AEST) – Public hearings to be held for a federal parliamentary inquiry into the importance of Antarctica to Australia’s interests – Hobart

9.30am (AEST) – Federal Court judicial review of the decision to reject mining company’s Glencore/CTSCo application to pump industrial waste into the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) begins – Brisbane

9.40am (AEST) – Representatives for Cadbury, Mondelēz, and Lark Distilling Co to appear before a federal parliamentary inquiry into food and beverage packaging in Australia – Hobart

Miles Franklin Literary Award winner announced

Data release: CoreLogic Dwelling Prices

ABS data release: International Trade in Goods, June; Labor Force, June 

Start of World Breastfeeding Week (until 7 August) 

Start of Pawgust (for Guide Dogs Australia)

Switzerland’s national day

Birthdays for director Sam Mendes (1965), actor Jason Momoa (1979) and all Aussie horses 

Anniversary of:

• English chemist Joseph Priestley discovering oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state (1774)
• the publication of the first Michelin Guide by the brothers Édouard and André Michelin (1900)
• Mahatma Gandhi founding the Non-Cooperation Movement aiming to end British rule in India (1920)
• the production of the first Jeep car (1941)
• te reo Māori becoming an official language of New Zealand (1987)
• the publication of George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones, the first in his series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996)