12.30pm (AEST) – Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Frances Adamson addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Popstar Britney Spears to address the Los Angeles Superior Court in a conservatorship hearing – California

World Whistleblowers Day

International Widows’ Day

Public Service Day

Olympic Day, commemorating the formal establishment of the International Olympic Committee in 1894

Birthdays for Frances McDormand (1957) and Joel Edgerton (1974),

Anniversary of:
• the first contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the US (1960)
• 20 years since the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire that killed 15 tourists visiting the Queensland town (2000)
• the United Kingdom voting in a referendum to leave the European Union (2016)
• Ash Barty winning the Birmingham title, becoming women’s world #1 (2019)