12.30pm (AEST) – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Natasha Fyles, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

2.30pm (AEST) – The Reserve Bank board announces its latest interest rate decision

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, June; Lending Indicators, June

Start of World Breastfeeding Week (until 7 August)

Start of Pawgust (for Guide Dogs Australia)

Switzerland’s national day

Birthdays for director Sam Mendes (1965), actor Jason Momoa (1979) and all Aussie horses

Anniversary of:
• English chemist Joseph Priestley discovering oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state (1774)
• the publication of the first Michelin Guide by the brothers Édouard and André Michelin (1900)
• Mahatma Gandhi founding the Non-Cooperation Movement aiming to end British rule in India (1920)
• the production of the first Jeep car (1941)
• te reo Māori becoming an official language of New Zealand (1987)
• the publication of George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones, the first in his series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996)