3.00pm (AEST) – Senate reports into the overseas university students cap and the Future Made in Australia Fund will be tabled – Canberra

7.40pm (AEST) – AFL: Second Elimination Final, Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn – Melbourne, and watch on Kayo

11.00pm (AEST) – Cricket: Scotland Men v Australia Men – Second T20I – UK, and watch on Kayo

The start of the Birdsville Races (until 7 Sep)

New York Fashion week begins (until 11 Sep)

Braveheart’s White Balloon Day to benefit child protection advocacy 

National Walk to Work Day 

Early Childhood Educators’ Day 

National Fight Procrastination Day

Colourblind Awareness Day 

A birthday for actor Idris Elba (1972)

Anniversary of 

• the Mayflower departing Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World (1620)
• the first supermarket, the Piggly Wiggly, being opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
• the premiere of TV sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969)
• the funeral of Princess Diana, held at London’s Westminster Abbey in London (1997)
• the deaths of Luciano Pavarotti (2007), Burt Reynolds, (2018) and Robert Mugabe (2019)