/ 13 August 2024

13 August 2024

10.00am (AEST) – Billionaire Elon Musk will stream a live one-on-one interview with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on X 

12.30pm (AEST) – Minister for the NDIS Bill Shorten will address the National Press Club on government services in Australia over the next decade – Canberra

9.00pm (AWST) – Aussie Olympians arrive home on a specially chartered Qantas flight from Paris – the jet will then fly the East coasties to Sydney, arriving 7am Wednesday

Former PM Scott Morrison is expected to testify at Linda Reynolds’ defamation hearing against Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz – Perth

Company results – James Hardie Industries, Challenger, SEEK, Temple & Webster, NBN Co

ABS Data Release – Wage Price Index, June 

Independence Day in the Central African Republic

International Left Hander’s Day 

National Prosecco Day

Anniversary of:

  • the fall of the Aztec Empire after Spanish conquistadors captured Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan (1521)
  • Berlin being divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city’s eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees (1961)
  • the premiere of South Park (1997)
  • the birthdays of Alfred Hitchcock (1899) and Fidel Castro (1926)
  • the deaths of Florence Nightingale (1910) and Julia Child (2005)

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