1.10pm (AEST) – Outgoing RBA governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to deliver some final remarks for the Anika Foundation – Sydney

7.20pm (AEST) – AFL first qualifying final – Collingwood v Melbourne – Richmond

9.00pm (AEST) – Men’s Cricket – First ODI – Australia v South Africa – Bloemfontain, South Africa

The 7th Australia-China High Level Dialogue is held in Beijing

Independence Day in Brazil

ABS Data Release – International Trade in Goods and Services, July

AIHW Release – Australia’s welfare and wellbeing, 2023

Threatened Species Day, on the anniversary of the death of the last Tassie Tiger Benjamin, at the Hobart Zoo (1936)

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

Start of the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (until 10 September)

Anniversary of:
• Australia observing a ‘day of humiliation’ and praying for rain during a bad drought. Rain started falling 3 days later… (1902)
• the start of the Blitz when Germany bombed London for 57 nights as the Nazis prepared for an invasion (1940)
• the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur (1996)
• Tony Abbott becoming PM after the Coalition defeated the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor Government (2013)
• the death of rapper Mac Miller (2018)