Federal Parliament sits for 2 weeks

ABS Data Release – Business Indicators, June; Monthly Household Spending Indicator July

Start of Women’s Health Week (until 8 September)

Start of Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (until 10 September)

Start of Spinal Injury Awareness Week (until 10 September)

International Taekwondo Day

Birthdays for Dawn Fraser (1937), Mark Ronson (1975), Samantha Armytage (1976) and Beyoncé (1981)

Anniversary of:
• English astronomer Edmond Halley first observing the comet named after him (1682)
• the founding of the city of Los Angeles (1781)
• Britain ending its policy of penal transportation to NSW (1884)
• George Eastman patenting the first roll-film camera and registering under the name “Kodak” (1888)
• English author Beatrix Potter first writing the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5yo boy (1893)
• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdrawing controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests (2019)
• the deaths of Steve Irwin (2006) and Joan Rivers (2014)