12.00pm (AEST) – Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock is expected to deliver a speech on the cost of high inflation at an event for the Anika Foundation – Sydney

6.00pm (AEST) – Former ACCC Chair Allan Fels will deliver the third annual Laurie Carmichael Lecture at RMIT University – Melbourne

7.10pm (ACST) – AFL: Second Qualifying Final, Port Adelaide v Geelong – Adelaide, and watch on Kayo

8.00pm (AEST) – Soccer: Men’s World Cup qualifier – Australia v Bahrain – Gold Coast, and watch on 10 Play

Sigma/Chemist Warehouse merger decision by the ACCC due 

ABS data release – International Trade in Goods, July 

The Broken Heel Festival (Priscilla Queen Of The Desert inspired festival) quite literally kicks off – Broken Hill 

The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair begins (until 8 September) 

International Day of Charity 

Be Late for Something Day ⏰

Birthdays for Michael Keaton (1951), India Hicks (1967), and Rose McGowan (1973)

Anniversary of:

• the First Opium War beginning in China (1839)
• Christine Hardt patenting the first modern brassiere (1889)
• the premieres of The Huckleberry Hound Show featuring Yogi Bear (1958) and The Muppet Show (1976)
• Freddie Mercury’s birthday (1946)
• the death of Mother Teresa (1997)