12.30pm (AEST) – Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities, Treasury and Employment, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

5.40pm (AEST – Incoming RBA governor Michele Bullock to deliver a speech on central banks and climate change – Canberra

9.10pm (AEST) – Men’s Basketball – FIBA World Cup – Australia v Japan – Okinawa, Japan

Company Results – Meridian Energy; Mineral Resources; Star Entertainment

International Day Against Nuclear Tests

Birthdays for Lea Michele (1986) and Liam Payne (1993)

Anniversary of:
• Great Britain and China signing Treaty of Nanking, ending the Opium War (1842)
• the founding of Netflix by Californians Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings as an online DVD rental business (1997)
• Hurricane Katrina hitting the US city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, ultimately killing 1,800 people (2005)