12.30pm (AEST) – Outgoing Chair at the Productivity Commission, Michael Brennan, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission to the south pole of the moon is expected to set down a lander and rover – although it might be beaten by Russian mission Luna-25…

Zimbabwean general election

ABS Data Release – Sexual harassment 2021-22 financial year; Sexual violence 2021-22 financial year; Physical violence 2021-22 financial year

Company Results – Domino’s Pizza; Iluka Resources; Santos; Woolworths Group; WiseTech Global

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

National Flag Day in Ukraine

Anniversary of:
• the Battle of Stalingrad – 40,000 died in the WWII battle (1942)
• the World Wide Web being opened to the public (1991)
• the release of Jeff Buckley’s only studio album Grace (1995)
• Hurricane Katrina forming over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane that devastated the New Orleans area of the US (2005)
• the first use of the hashtag in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina (2007)
• the birthdays of Gene Kelly (1912), River Phoenix (1970), and Kobe Bryant (1978)