The Age photos of the week, July 26, 2025
33 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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Best murals of Melbourne. Newly betrothed in ACDC lane, MelbourneCredit:Joe Armao
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T. Cavallaro and Sons Pasticceria owner Tony Cavallaro at his Footscray shop.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Dominic Noonan-O’Keeffe, with partner Judit and daughter Ona, has experienced debilitating symptoms from taking B6 supplements.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Liam, Barry, Neil & Dave Dillon. Photographed at Gilhooleys Irish pub in Brisbane. The four Dillon Brothers, originally from Dublin, Ireland, now living in New Zealand, Ireland and two of them in the US, reunited in Australia to barrack for the British and Irish Lions rugby union team playing Australia’s Wallabies.Credit:Russell Shaekespeare
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Nicola Trotman reading to her daughter Sadie, who will be 2 in August. New research suggests the number of parents reading aloud to children is at an all-time low, with fewer than half of 0 to 4-year-olds being read to frequently. Credit:Alex Coppel
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Wyndham Cultural Centre will be holding an upcoming play - The Yellow Line, which is based on the true story of Tyson Tuala’s time as a prison guard. Pictured are Tyson Tuala, actor Wiremu Morris and The Yellow LIne artistic director and co-writer Alaine Beek.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Associate Professor Neera Bhatia has been working with a group of women who have discovered their children have 29 half-siblings and is calling for regulatory changes to better protect people engaging in informal sperm donation.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Marcus Barlow talks about the risks of spinal cord stimulators - expensive devices implanted for back pain that, evidence suggests, are high risk and often don’t work.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Pen pals turned lifelong friends, Rebecca Grice of England and Georgia King of Manly Vale in Sydney, are both big Rugby supporters who will be travelling to Melbourne for the upcoming Lions vs Wallabies game.Credit:Max Mason-Hubers
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Students at Officer Specialist School learn about yachting. A sailing program to help transform the lives of students from low-socio-economic backgrounds and refugee backgrounds who are living with a disability. Student Dylan at the steering wheel.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Frayzel Uale is one of many people from Tuvalu living in Melbourne who have entered the ballot for permanent residency open to citizens of Tuvalu under the Falepili Union. More than half of the country’s citizens have applied. Climate change is threatening Tuvaluans’ homes and livelihoods. Frayzel, 18 years old pictured at home in Melton South where he lives with his family.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Eve Burns, 28, from the Marshall Islands, who says “everyone is leaving” because of climate change.Credit:Eddie Jim
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In the Heights cast members Mariah Gonzalez (Nina), Ngali Shaw (Benny), Olivia Vasquez (Vanessa) and Ryan Gonzalez (Usnavi)Credit:Eddie Jim
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Wagyu beef farmer Nick Sher on his Ballan farm, north-west of Melbourne. He isn’t worried about the change to US Beef imports.Credit:Jason South
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Tim Staindl and Duncan Wallace outside the Corkman pub rebuild in Carlton. They were law students in 2016 when the Corkman Irish Pub was illegally demolished. The pair drank at the pub and were so outraged they applied to VCAT to get an order to force Stefce Kutlesovki and Raman Shaqiri, who demolished the pub, to rebuild it.Credit:Joe Armao
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Brisbane-based author Siang Lu has won the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Ghost Cities.Credit:Sitthixay Ditthavong
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Ides chef Peter Gunn has no plans to use American beef at his Melbourne restaurant.Credit:Jason South
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Sophea Heng is Co-founder and Director, Heng and Hurst.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Neometro directors Lochlan Sinclair and James Tutton say award-winning developers should be given more freedom in designing their apartments.Credit:Justin McManus
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Tyrone Wright (aka RONE), a prominent street artist in front of Welcome to Sunny Fitzroy mural - Johnston St, Fitzroy.Credit:Joe Armao
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Tasmanian State Election 2025 Travis Price and his dad James Price at a Pro Stadium rally and march supporting the proposed Hobart AFL Stadium.Credit:Peter Mathew
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Cambodian survivor Saphen Ty with daughter Neary and her son, Myles.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Mark Carney, Brett Lasham, and Dean Arcuri inside The Laird, Melbourne’s iconic gay venue in Abbotsford which was recently targeted with ignorant ‘hate graffiti’ on its exterior.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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AFL Collingwood Football Club player Lachie Schultz.Credit:Simon Schluter
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The Hives perform at Forum Melbourne, July 19, 2025.Credit:Richard Clifford
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50 years Pol Pot regime. Cambodian survivor Dr. Richard Lim.Credit:Simon Schluter
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New AFL football performance boss Greg Swann has identified game length as an area to address immediately.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Michael Taing, a Khmer martial arts teacher.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Justin Flowers has $300,000 in the bank, and he can’t get a home loan. The 52-year-old Maribyrnong local, who runs his own graphic design business, had bought and sold a few properties over the years, but is now renting. Despite having an enviable deposit for a home, he cannot get a bank loan to buy a house because he is too old, but his savings prevent him from accessing govt assistance.Credit:Justin McManus
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The Save Albert Park group is unhappy that 34 trees have been knocked down as part of a $350m redevelopment of pit lane.Credit:Joe Armao
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Gene Neill in front of the front yard of his property that has collapsed into the bay and the concrete wall he’s building to halt the erosion. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Nine first nations artists have come together to paint a sprawling 28-metre-long mural. The work, which forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition, Stronger Families, Stronger Communities: Healing the Past for the Future, is the result of a collaboration between Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Dardi Munwurro. L-R Peter Hammersley, Towah Pearson, Jeremy Jose, Gurrenah Foley, David Roe “Roey”, Roony Grambeau, Brodie Peters-Godden and Jade Kennedy. Not pictured, Tyrhys Wilson.Credit:Justin McManus
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Thu-Trang Tran came to Australia as a refugee from Vietnam when she was eight years old. Australia is about to record 1 milliion refugees taking refuge here.Credit:Chris Hopkins
