10.00am (ACDT) – the first match of the Australia vs West Indies Test Series – Adelaide, and broadcast live on Channel 7

ABS Data Release – Building Activity, September

International Mentoring Day 

Birthdays for Aussie netball legend Liz Ellis (1973), actor Jim Carrey (1962) and former First Lady Michelle Obama (1964)

Anniversary of 

• the start of the 13-year-long prohibition on alcohol in the US (1920)

• the start of the Gulf War in Iraq (1991) 

• flash flooding that occurred in the Mackay and Proserpine region of FNQ, taking the life of an Aussie man (2023)