4.00am (AEST) – Paris 2024 Paralympic Games begin (on until 8 September)

8.30am (AEST) – The Daily Telegraph’s National Bush Summit – Orange, NSW

9.00am (AEST) – The Tourism & Transport Forum’s Leadership Qld: Tourism, Aviation and Transport Summit 2024 – Brisbane

9.15am (AEST) – The CEOs of CommBank and Westpac to appear before a parliamentary committee’s review of the big 4 banks – Canberra

Julia Gillard to head up a Women in Leadership forum – online

Company results –  Wesfarmers, Qantas, Atlas Arteria, Southern Cross Media Group 

International Day Against Nuclear Tests 

Birthdays for Lea Michele (1986) and Liam Payne (1993)

Anniversary of:

• Great Britain and China signing the Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium War (1842)
• the founding of Netflix by Californians Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings as an online DVD rental business (1997)
• Hurricane Katrina hitting the US city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, ultimately killing 1,800 people (2005)