The Age photos of the week, June 21, 2025
25 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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Wadih Yacoub at age 96, in his Essendon home workshop, Wadih still makes men’s shoes for a high-end Melbourne city shoe shop, McCloud Shoes. He started making shoes when he was 10 years old in Tripoli, Lebanon.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Cyclist Nicholas Tyrrell and his seven-year-old son, Ismo.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Erin Patterson’s Barrister Colin Mandy SC arriving at Morwell courts this weekCredit:Jason South
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Residents at the former Brunswick Brickworks are facing a “trap” orchestrated by their developer, who has left a historic kiln chimney to decay, burdening homeowners with exorbitant insurance premiums. Despite annual Owners Corporation (OC) fees skyrocketing to $8,000 per year per unit due to the crumbling, scaffold-clad chimney.Credit:Joe Armao
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Dion Chakrabarty, 13yrs, preparing to sit the select school entry test and is hopeful of getting in to Melbourne HighCredit:Paul Jeffers
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Jen Walker aims to maintain her balance while walking her dogs.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Harshal Mittal with his parents Harpreet and Madhur Mittal. Harshal is going to start preparing for the selective entry exam.Credit:Joe Armao
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Investigation into the workplace culture under various restaurants managed by Pietro Barbagallo, most recently Kaprica in Carlton. Carly Lauder worked with Pietro in the early 2000sCredit:Simon Schluter
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Associate professor Mohammad Irhimeh, President of PANZMA and Director of Medical Missions has formed an NGO to send doctors and medical supplies to Gaza.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Travis Lovett at the end of the Walk for Truth at Parliament House.Credit:Justin McManus
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Werribee Football Club CEO Mark Penaluna and Community Development Manager Majok Ngong at the club groundCredit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Recent rain has turned dusty paddocks into fields of green, giving the Benalla Sheep farmers some relief from the drought. Stuart and Julie Green’s daughter Poppy 4yrs chasing a lamb on their property.Credit:Joe Armao
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Zoe Daniel at home after packing up her office following defeat in Goldstein.Credit:Justin McManus
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In touch with nature: Jo Howell in the Melbourne Zoo butterfly enclosure, is Zoos Victoria’s staff photographerCredit:Eddie Jim
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Owners of the Hill of Content bookshop Diana and Duncan Johnston in the Bourke St Melbourne shop are thrilled to be moving to a new location in the same block.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Adam Seidel, a performer at Bourke St Mall where the number of busking permits handed out by the City of Melbourne has declined over recent years.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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The crowd sang along as Jimmy Barnes performed Flame Trees at The Palais, Melbourne..Credit:Richard Clifford
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Year 10 student Oscar Williams attended Morwell court this week to hear about the Erin Patterson murder by mushroom case.Credit:Jason South
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Lucy Lines, independent embryologist and a former IVF lab worker in Melbourne.Credit:Nicole Cleary
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People braving the elements at St Kilda Foreshore. The weather in Melbourne is cold, windy and at times sunny.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Daisy Potter (centre) enjoys strong friendships with Lily McCallum (left) and Hanna Niere (right) Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Matthew Mottola will soon be able to donate blood plasma. Rules that have effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma will be lifted, in a world-first move that would expand Australia’s donor pool and redress a major source of stigma for LGBTQ peopleCredit:Alex Coppel
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AFL Geelong football club’s Patrick Dangerfield with daughters Felicity (5) and Winnifred (1) ahead of his 350th game on Friday.Credit:Joe Armao
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Aaron Lanfranchi with fellow tradesman Chris Richardson and Anthony Richardson at the Coburg High School worksite. The Collapse of building giant RobertsCo has thrown some big school building jobs into turmoil and left many contractors out of pocket and complaining that the School Building Authority has failed to protect them from such a collapse.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Alex Childs and Dr Aiden Varan (crossed legs) with their daughter Wren and members of West Heidelberg community outside the Olympic Leisure Centre. Banyule Council is pushing to close the run-down swimming centre despite leading a codesign process with the community last year in which people said they wanted to keep the pool openCredit:Joe Armao
