9.00am (AEST) – 2024 Australian Cotton Conference – Brisbane

9.30am (AEST) – First case management hearing in the Fair Work Commission’s Federal Court application to appoint an independent administrator to the CFMEU in the wake of allegations of corruption and misconduct – online

12.00pm (AEST) CEDA Queensland state of the state address

2.30pm (AEST) – The RBA will provide the latest interest rate decision

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, June

Jamaica and Bolivia’s National Day

Hiroshima Day, commemorates those who lost their lives in the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945

Anniversary of:

• the HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, WA, on the first British scientific expedition to Australia (1699)
• the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (1945)
• the World Wide Web becoming publicly available (1991)
• the birthdays of Alfred Tennyson (1809), Edith Roosevelt (1861), Lucille Ball (1911) and Andy Warhol (1928)