The Age photos of the week, June 8, 2024
25 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
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Kusheda Maqu-Islam,, with her daughter-in-law Tania Fragopoulos and 4-year-old granddaughter Aalia Malik, flies their mermaid kite at the Kite Festival in Craigieburn.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Locals of BroadmeadowsCredit:Justin McManus
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Nail Aykan says Broadmeadows has been a “land of opportunities” for wave after wave of migrants.Credit:Justin McManus
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Brunswick Kindergarten children singing the birthday song during the Kindergarten’s 100-year anniversary.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Bryan Kennedy was best friends with one of Robert Farquarsons children, Tyler, who drowned in a dam with his brothers after their father drove his car off the road.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Max Wright, Victorian canned fruit grower. SPC is cutting the contracts of Australian fruit growers, saying cost of living pressures mean supermarket customers want cheaper cans, with more overseas-grown fruit.Credit:Jason South
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Architect Paul van Herk and Architect Masters Student Gabriela Amstalden Martins with their RMIT exhibition ‘What Killed Fisherman’s Bend?’ in Parkville during Melbourne Design Week. Credit:Penny Stephens
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A local state school that had asbestos on its oval has been out of action since early 2022, when VicTrack took it over as a temporary construction site. The oval is also contaminated with pieces of broken glass/tile/rubble etc. and the students have not had an oval to play on since 2021.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Nail Aykan, Broadmeadows community member and resident of 50 yrs at the Broadmeadows mosque.Credit:Justin McManus
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Melbourne based artist, Birdz. One of the rappers’ songs has been withdrawn from playing in a Sydney primary school after pushback from a parent and an intervention from the NSW premier and education minister.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Richmond’s Ellie McKenzie and Essendon’s Maddy Prespakis look forward to the AFLW’s Dreamtime match moving to Darwin.Credit:Justin McManus
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The owners of Bin 3 cafe and cellars, father and son Tom Mornement and Peter Mornement.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Astronomer Mark Iscaro at the Heathcote Astronomical Society of Victoria in Heathcote.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Sex worker Matthew Roberts talks about how sex work has changed in Victoria.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Sonja and John Rutherford outside their Broadmeadows home, where they have lived since 1964.Credit:Justin McManus
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Opera singer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is performing in the Rising Festival event The Rivers Sing, from Crowne Plaza with huge speakers around her, overlooking the river. She will be part of a performance that will be broadcast along the Yarra.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Sinead Diver, Genevieve Gregson and Jessica Stenson following the Australian Olympic marathon team announcement at Lakeside Stadium Albert Park.Credit:Joe Armao
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Brian Murray with his greyhounds Toby and Red pictured with some of the multitude of Caravans taking up on street carparks along Alexandra street, St Kilda East opposite the St Kilda cemetery.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Psychologist Ariane Beeston aims to help other women for whom motherhood has brought unexpected mental health challenges.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Gelora Alphonse and Sharaniah Thasarathan, with their dogs Yuki and Yuna, have just purchased a block of land in Clyde. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Daad Haddara (10) with her mother Rima Haddara. In world-first research, Sydney scientists have been able to slow or halt cancer progression in 70% of kids with ultra-aggressive and often untreatable forms of cancer. Daad Haddara’s brain tumour returned a week and a half after she had it surgically removed, but has now shrunk completely after she received immunotherapy targeting the specific gene predisposing her.Credit:Joe Armao
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Max Wright and his son, Joey, are among the local growers whose fruit orders have been cut.Credit:Jason South
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Retail worker Rebecca Donaldson, has been the victim of sexualised harassment in the workplace.Credit:Jason South
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Koky Saly runs his dream shop in Centre Place laneway, Melbourne.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Melbourne-based yoga teacher/trainer Beata Heymann says they don’t have a skills’ shortage they have an oversupply.Credit:Chris Hopkins
