12.00pm (AEST) – Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff to give the CEDA state of the state address – Hobart

12.15pm (AEST) – Rugby Sevens: Australia’s rugby sevens men’s and women’s squads for the Paris Olympics will be announced – Sydney

12.30pm (AEST) – Australian Human Rights Commission President, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher, will address the National Press Club on ‘Free + Equal: Safeguarding the rights of all Australians’

12.45pm (AEST) – The parliamentary inquiry into the live music industry in Australia will hold a second round of public hearings – Canberra

7.30pm (AEST) – National Press Gallery Federal Parliamentary Midwinter Ball – Canberra

9.20pm (AEST) – Cycling: Tour de France, stage 5, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas (177km) – France and watch on SBS

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, May; Retail Trade, May 

Independence Day – Belarus

Plastic Bag Free Day

Birthdays for Tom Cruise (1962) and (no doubt an extra happy one) for Julian Assange (1971)

Anniversary of:

• the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent (1863)
• Karl Benz driving the first automobile (1886)
• the death of rocker Jim Morrison (1971)
• the premiere of Back to the Future (1985)