The Age photos of the week, February 15, 2025
28 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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‘I just do what I do’: Baba Desi, the Belgrave Wizard, is a much-loved identity in the Dandenong Ranges.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Bear’s Wine Bar in North Melbourne “is exactly what a neighbourhood wine bar should be”.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Andrew Wilkinson on Quilpeta station near Cheepie, Qld.Credit:Jason South
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Lionie Kinnaird (left) and Louise Speck are selling their parents’ Camberwell home of nearly 20 years.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Frank Old and son Lincoln on their property near Bourke, NSW.Credit:Jason South
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Bush Users’ Group founder Bill Schulz pictured in the Moondarra State park.Credit:Justin McManus
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Farmer Steve Blore, who runs the livestock operation on a number of carbon projects near Quilpie, Queensland.Credit:Jason South
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Collingwood’s Nick Daicos training at Olympic Park.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Michael and Christie Markham, Possamunga station, near Toompine, Qld.Credit:Jason South
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Jen Willis in front of the fence she was padlocked to by a former school bully.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Frank Old says the goalposts with the carbon project keep changing.Credit:Jason South
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A voter’s dog at Christ Church Grammar School in South Yarra.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Alec Kahn, match secretary for the Mercantile Cricket Association in Parkville.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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These Prahran pooches were busy snuggling while they waited for one of their owners to vote.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Ron Jones at the grassland circle in Royal Park. He is one of the landscape architects who designed the Royal Park Master Plan.Credit:Penny Stephens
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John Lister, Labor candidate for the Victorian state seat of Werribee, outside a voting centre on Saturday.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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A protest to pause AI organised by Dr Mark Brown (in wheelchair) and Michael Huang in Melbourne on Saturday.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Tanya Mauff from the Bacchus Marsh SES unit.Credit:Jason South
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John Lister, Labor Party candidate for Werribee and Premier Jacinta Allan are seen at the Labor Party in Werribee last Saturday.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra launched its one-of-a-kind music program at Belle Vue Park Primary School in Glenroy. Maxime Bibeau ACO principal double bass player chats with grade 2 students Jeyda Mahmut and Anisa Ahmad.Credit:Jason South
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Australian singer Tones and I was among the fans watching Super Bowl LIX between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at The Sporting Globe in Richmond.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Chian Ting, Nimbo co-owner, with a matcha mango bingsu.Credit:Justin McManus
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Melissa’s father, Ziggy, passed away from mesothelioma last year following asbestos exposure at the ABC in Melbourne.Credit:Justin McManus
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Claire Hamilton and daughters Chloe, 9, (left) and Grace, 7. Claire had a melanoma removed and is always SunSmart.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Sooshi Mango members (L-R) Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri and Andrew Manfre during the Moomba Festival 2025 Program and Monarchs Launch in Melbourne.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Jordan Crook, campaigner Victorian National Parks Assoc, Dr Adrian Marshall and local, Blake Nisbet at privately own bushland in Dromana. Long-standing plans to convert bushland in Dromana to 250 housing lots have been complicated by the recent reclassification of the swamp skink to endangered status.Credit:Joe Armao
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Criminologist James Martin specialises in black market economics.Credit:Jason South
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Cyclist and BikeWest Vice President Pierre Vairo at the Dynon Rd ‘Rainbow Bridge’ in North Melbourne. He’s questioning why it’s still not open despite it being completed.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
