12.30pm (AEST) – Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry & Minister for Emergency Management Murray Watt addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Singapore’s National Day

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending, June; Monthly Business Turnover, June

Company Results – News Corp; REA Group; Evolution Mining

Westpac and Melbourne Institute release their monthly consumer confidence index for August

Book Lovers Day

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Birthdays for tennis player Rod Laver (1938), designer Michael Kors (1959), former Kiwi PM John Key (1961), actors Gillian Anderson (1968), Eric Bana (1968), and Anna Kendrick (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
•the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854)
• the US dropping a 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (1945)
• the Manson family committing the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)
• the resignation of US President Richard Nixon (1974)