From 5am (AEST) – Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony begins – Paris

10.30am (AEST) – Australian high school students will come together at Parliament House for the first Together For Humanity National Youth Summit – Canberra

10.30am (AEST) – Launch of the first comprehensive report on voluntary assisted dying in Australia and New Zealand – Canberra

Parliament resumes after the winter break – Both houses are sitting (until 14 August)

Company results – JB Hi-Fi, Carsales.com, Beach Energy

World Elephant Day 

International Youth Day 

Birthdays for media personality Karl Stefanovic (1974), and models Jesinta Franklin (1991) and Cara Delevingne (1992)

Anniversary of:

• American inventor Isaac Singer patenting the sewing machine (1851)
• Henry Ford’s company building the first Model T car (1908)
• IBM launching its first Personal Computer (1981)
• the deaths of Cleopatra (30BC), and actors Henry Fonda (1982) and Lauren Bacall (2014)