12.30pm (AEST) – Universities Australia Chair Professor David Lloyd addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Singapore’s National Day

ABS Data Release – Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, June

Company Results – Commonwealth Bank; Suncorp Group

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

National Indigenous Fashion Awards – Darwin

Book Lovers Day

Archibald people’s choice 2023 winner announced

Birthdays for Rod Laver (1938), Michael Kors (1959), John Key (1961), Gillian Anderson (1968), Eric Bana (1968), and Anna Kendrick (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
•the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854)
• the US dropping a 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (1945)
• the Manson family committing the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)
• the resignation of US President Richard Nixon (1974)