The Age photos of the week, June 29, 2025
27 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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Sara Puhar with children Freddie, 5, and Luna, 8, near their home in Yarraville, where locals are concerned a local cement manufacturer poses risks for their health and safety.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Julie Freddy, 49, pictured at the Mejatto Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was born with birth defects consistent with radiation poisoning. She is one of many children born with birth defects after their parents suffered radiation poisoning as a result of the United States conducting 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Public housing resident Hawa Del is vocal in her condemnation of the way she has been treated since being approached to move out of her home of 34 years at Alfred Street, North Melbourne.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Stephen Crombie, co-owner of live music venue Sooki Lounge in Belgrave, is about to introduce a public insurance levy on venue tickets to help with the cost of insuring his 330-person venue. His cover has risen from $15,000 per annum to more than $60,000 since COVID.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Big 4 Apollo Bay Pisces Holiday Park manager Adrian Davidson. Apollo Bay is already at stage 3 water restrictions and there’s talk by the government of going to stage 4. At this caravan park they’re already asking guests to take short showers and limit water use.Credit:Nicole Cleary
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Steph Cassar, 12, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2023. Despite struggling with the condition, she continues to play AFL, soccer, cricket and basketball.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Former Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto arriving at the party’s administrative committee meeting in Melbourne, where Liberal powerbrokers voted to lend him money to pay Moira Deeming’s costs in a defamation lawsuit.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Mina Titus, on Mejatto Atoll in the Marshall Islands, survived US atomic bomb tests during the 1950s.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Essendon fan Deb Ford says a Kayo streaming service subscription to watch AFL games is unattainable for some people during the cost-of-living crisis.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Marie-Louise Thornton-Smith and husband Paul Thornton-Smith met in 1971 while studying at the 135-year-old French language and culture association Alliance Francaise de Melbourne as teenagers. The alliance has moved into an old cinema on Bourke Street and the couple are still actively involved, taking classes and attending social events.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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AFL fan Aidan Quicke is not happy about no free-to-air footy on Saturdays. Matches are only available to watch on pay TV.Credit:Justin McManus
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Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie, president of the board of Alliance Francaise de Melbourne.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Casey Nunn shares the couch with young footy fans (fromt left) Charlotte, 7, Chloe, 6, Molly, 6, Andre, 4, Lachlan, 9, Levi, 8, and four-month-old Millie.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Nicholas Jackson, a home owner who must pay tens of thousands to maintain a tree that neither he nor his neighbours want. Councils are increasingly blocking residents from removing trees on their private land as local laws are strengthened to combat tree canopy decline. But these decisions cost residents tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs, and there are few avenues for appeal.Credit:Joe Armao
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Sienna Warren, 15, has Crohn’s disease and avoids playing sport due to discomfort caused by the chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Nadine and 12-year-old son Alon at home in Caulfield South. Nadine is worried about the current ADHD medication shortage because her son has already had to switch medications. It’s affecting him at home and at school.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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From her Bohemian salon on Bourke Street in Melbourne, with the tower of the GPO standing in for the Eiffel Tower, couturier Kara Baker dresses a clientele committed to quality craftsmanship, luxurious fabrics and an experience that transcends online checkouts and fast fashion.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Melbourne couple Ilana and Levi Lewis and their baby gather with other Australians in Tel Aviv, where they are being assisted by the Australian embassy to evacuate from Israel during Iran’s retaliatory bombing.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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The co-owners of Moonee Ponds bar Holmes Hall, Lachlan Taylor (centre) and David Bartl (right) with venue manager Joshua Santoro, say they’re exhausted by petty complaints and “obsessive behaviour” of just two neighbours. The bar has been subjected to hundreds of complaints, including more than 30 freedom of information requests, multiple appeals to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and attempts to revoke their planning permit entirely.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Brett Sutton at the College Of Surgeons Gardens in East Melbourne. The former Victorian chief health officer is launching a big new idea: a Coalition for Trust in Science to act as a public voice fighting mis- and disinformation.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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After a series of mysterious symptoms and misdiagnoses, Andi Snelling turned her medical odyssey into a funny and raw production, Happy-Go-Wrong. The show is on at fortyfivedownstairs from June 25-29.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Antoinette Lattouf arriving at the Federal Court in Sydney, which awarded her $70,000 in damages for unfair dismissal from the ABC after the broadcaster cut short her five-day contract. The furore stemmed from Lattouf reposting a Human Rights Watch video to her Instagram story with the caption “HRW reporting starvation as a tool of war”. The ABC spent an estimated $1 million defending the case.Credit:Oscar Colman
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Commuters at Tarneit wait for a morning peak-hour train. A secret state government report predicted that “crush” conditions would be routine for rail commuters from fast-growing suburbs in Melbourne’s west and north. Credit:Joe Armao
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Parents at the Bulldogs Community Children’s Centre are unhappy with the proposed lease agreement changes that could soon make profit the driving force.Credit:Eddie Jim
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In his Hampton home, Setken stands surrounded by two large obelisks, shelves filled with books on Egyptology and his own hieroglyphic paintings, as he prepares to tell the story behind the Egyptian mausoleum in Kew cemetery.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Tim Ellis is a magician and the artistic director of the Melbourne Magic Festival, now in its 18th year. The world of illusion opened to Ellis when his grandfather gave him a magic kit, the Hanky Panky set, when he was a boy. He stuck with it, he says with a laugh, “because I have no other tangible skills!”Credit:Joe Armao
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Collingwood superstar Nick Daicos dropped a bombshell by saying he won’t rule out a move to Tasmania if the Devils enter the AFL as planned. Controversy rages over the AFL edict that Tasmania must build a roofed stadium in Hobart as a condition of the team’s entry to the league. Credit:Eddie Jim
