7.20pm (AEST) – AFLW Season Opener – Melbourne v Collingwood – Carlton

10.10pm (AEST) – Men’s Basketball – FIBA World Cup – Australia v Slovenia – Japan

ABS Calendar – Lending Indicators July

National Walk to Work Day

Start of Asthma Week (until 7 September)

Start of World Alzheimer’s Month

National Wattle Day

Start of the Sydney Fringe Festival (until 30 September)

Start of Mulletfest (until 3 September) – Alice Springs

The Birdsville Races begin (until 2 September)

Ginger Cat Appreciation Day

Birthdays for Dr Phil (1950) and Zendaya (1996)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sydney General Post Office (1874)
• the start of WWII after Germany invades Poland (1939)
• the US, Australia and New Zealand signing the ANZUS defence treaty (1951)
• the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic (1985)