12.00pm (AEST) – Labor caucus to determine Victoria’s next premier – Melbourne

12.30pm (AEST) – Indigenous leader and lawyer Noel Pearson addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

5.30pm (AEST) – Dally M Medal awards night – Sydney

6.00pm (AEST) – Men’s Cricket – 3rd ODI – Australia v India

ABS Data Release – Monthly Consumer Price Index indicator August; Deaths 2022; Causes of death 2022

Start of the inaugural Voluntary Assisted Dying National Conference – Sydney (until 28 September)

World Tourism Day

Birthdays for Ray Hadley (1954), Gwenyth Paltrow (1972), and Lil Wayne (1982)

Anniversary of:
• French scholar Jean-François Champollion announcing he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone (1822)
• the physics journal Annalen der Physik publishing Albert Einstein’s paper which introduces the equation E=mc² (1905)
• WC Handy publishing the first blues song, Memphis Blues (1912)
• the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring about the environmental impacts of pesticide use in the US (1962)
• George and Amal Clooney’s wedding (2014)
• the death of Hugh Hefner (2017)