/ 30 July 2024

30 July 2024

9.30am (AEST) – Public hearings are to begin for a proposed Genocide Bill introduced by Senator Lidia Thorpe – Canberra  

8.30am (AEST) – AFR Government Services Summit 2024 – Canberra

Company reporting season begins with Credit Corp Group and Perseus Mining set to release results

ABS Data Release – Retail Trade, June; Building Approvals, June 

Vanuatu’s Independence Day 

International Day of Friendship 

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 

National Cheesecake Day

Birthdays for Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Terry Crews (1968), Simon Baker (1969), Christopher Nolan (1970), and Yvonne Strahovski (1982)

Anniversary of:

  • the birthdays of Emily Brontë (1818) and Henry Ford (1863)
  • the first FIFA World Cup Final which saw Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 (1930)
  • the publication of the first Penguin book, starting the paperback revolution (1935)
  • the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the deaths of 880 crew. Many were attacked by sharks, a tale that inspired the famous monologue by actor Robert Shaw in the 1975 movie Jaws (1945)
  • Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges (2013)

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