From 2.00pm (AEST) – Chris Dawson sentenced after being found guilty of having carnal knowledge of student – Sydney

7.50pm (AEST) – AFL Semi Final – Melbourne v Carlton – Melbourne

9.00pm (AEST) – Men’s Cricket – 4th ODI – Australia v South Africa

Independence Days for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

International Day of Democracy

World Lymphoma Awareness Day

Last day of Term 3 for public schools in Victoria and Queensland

News Corp Future Energy summit – Sydney

Start of London Fashion Week (until 19 September)

World Afro Day

Prince Harry’s birthday (1984)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Marco Polo (1254) and Agatha Christie (1890)
• Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin (1928)
• google.com being registered as a domain name (1997)
• the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games (2000)