10.00am (AEST) – 2023 MTV Video Music Awards – New Jersey

12.30pm (AEST) – Chair of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides, Nick Kaldas, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Start of the Regions Rising National Summit (until 14 September) – Canberra

Start of the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, Energy and Exploration’s (AMEE) annual conference – Cairns (until 14 September)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Roald Dahl (1916) and Shane Warne (1969)
• the Swiss inventor George de Mestral granting a patent for Velcro (1955)
• the premiere of Scooby-Doo (1969)
• the release of Nintendo’s first-ever Super Mario Bros game (1985)
• the premiere of Law and Order (1990)