12.30pm (AEDT) – Fiona Simson, President of the National Farmers’ Federation, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

4.30pm (AEDT) – RBA governor Michelle Bullock to deliver a speech at the Commonwealth Bank Conference

Company shareholder meeting – Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Independence Day in Zambia

United Nations Day

World Polio Day

World Development Information Day

World Solar Challenge begins – Darwin

Birthdays for Malcolm Turnbull (1954), Drake (1986) and PewDiePie (1989)

Anniversary of:
• the founding of the world’s first soccer club, Sheffield FC (1857)
• the first photograph of earth from outer space by a camera on board the V-2 No 13 rocket (1946)
• the deaths of civil rights activist Rosa Parks (2005), rock n’ roll pioneer Fats Domino (2017)