The Age photos of the week, July 19, 2025
17 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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Glenn Mack decided to end his life by not eating or drinking. The 85-year-old had a host of health conditions but was knocked back from accessing Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying scheme. He ended his life through a legal but little known process called Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) and had the support of his nursing home in Trentham. He said goodbye to family from around the world before he passed away.Credit:Justin McManus
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Lucinda McKimm runs a popular podcast on motherhood and career and said direct messages to the program reflect how unsettled working mothers are feeling.Credit:Photograph by Chris Hopkins
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Aymen, 8yrs reading to cats at the Lort Smith Animal shelter in Campbellfield.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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A family visiting Taning Lemontea in Box Hill, Melbourne.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Dogs of Melbourne CBD Facebook group manager Brett Potts with his 5-year-old Beagle cross Vera at Eades dog park, West Melbourne. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Fiona Cochrane (centre), with son Norbert Williams and close family friend Pia Ewings, are regulars at the Melbourne Free-Palestine protests.Credit:Chris Hopkins
7/17
With the fear of eviction any day, Najah al-Rajabi tends to her grandson Awad Nasser al-Rajabi 31yrs who has been in a coma for the past 6 years, in the family home in Batn al-Hawa neighbourhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Najah al-Rajabi and her family have been given an eviction order and must vacate or be forced to leave by Israeli authorities. East Jerusalem, PalestineCredit:Kate Geraghty
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Lorne Historical Society president Peter Spring and Angling Club rep Chris Tutungi For years the local management authority has been trying to develop this site in Lorne, which should be one of the best locations on the Great Ocean Road. The latest development plans have angered locals who say it won’t work.Credit:Justin McManus
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Members of Japan’s amphibious rapid deployment brigade training at Camp Ainoura, in Sasebo, Japan, in June 2025.Credit:David King
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Australian Children Choir and American Childrens choir join forces in Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Julia Lees’s walking book group meet at Federation Square and walk to the Botanical Gardens and back giving the group social connections and literary discussions.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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A train carriage is removed from the tracks after derailing in Clifton Hill.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Reid Mather, CEO of the Rail Freight Alliance, at the Port of Melbourne. Reid wants to see more freight handled by rail.Credit:Alex Coppel
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Bartender Manny Platsis with The Lincoln’s wild boar dim sims and beetroot relish.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancée Jodie Haydon visited the Great Wall of China this week.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Dominique Adamidis and her two children Charlie 3 and Sal 3 months Dominique breastfed her first child, and is currently breastfeeding her second. Will breast milk substitutes ever be comparable to human milk.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Michiko Tsui has donated a wedding kimono her mother made to the NGV; both her two sisters wore it at their weddings.Credit:Eddie Jim
