The Age photos of the week, March 15, 2025
30 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
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Grand Prix ambassadors Darcy Moore and Dee Salmin on pit lane, Albert Park, Melbourne, ahead of Sunday’s race.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Mornington Peninsula baker Michelle Ball has sold loaves of bread via an honesty system at her front gate for the last three years but has recently been told by council that she needs to stop selling loaves until she gets the appropriate takeaway food permit, which will cost about $10,000.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Alex Garde and Toby Jedwab met at Sunnyside Kindergarten in Malvern East. They went on to get married and have two kids. Sunnyside is celebrating its 80th anniversary. Credit:Joe Armao
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Johnrey and Ericka Baraceros with dog Kobe in front of their new Sunbury home in the Redstone Estate. They swapped apartment living in inner Melbourne’s Southbank for space in the city’s outer north-west.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Gocchanko, an ex-sumo wrestler busking in Melbourne. Gocchanko runs through his warm-up routine before wrestling, going toe to toe with passers-by.Credit:Justin McManus
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Koa Love, 17 months, playing on the street in front of his house with the dogs after flooding in Billinudgel, NSW.Credit:Danielle Smith
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Fashions on the field contestant Alice Williams, 15, at the Thorpdale Potato Festival.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Melbourne resident Sruthy Saseendran recently achieved a Guinness World Record for most airports identified in one minute.Credit:Jason South
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Andrea Cook has opted to walk for most of her journeys, deciding to live without a car.Credit:Justin McManus
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Mitu Bhowmick Lange, Nazifa Amiri and Setara Amiri Mitu. Mitu is the producer of a portmanteau film, My Melbourne, about minority experience (especially Indian) in modern Melbourne. It is being released in Australia and India in March. Nazifa Amiri has written one of the four chapters, and her sister Setara stars in it as an Afghani cricketer.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Lara Bowden,10, playing in the mud after Cyclone Alfred at Skennars Head, NSW.Credit:Danielle Smith
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Irish hip-hop act Kneecap outside the Frontier Touring South Melbourne office. They sing in Gaelic and did a pop-up gig at Federation Square in Melbourne.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Amy and Ben Cresswell plan to send their children Max, Kai and Zac to an independent secondary school.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Rokhan Akbar, spokesperson for the Afghan Islamic Centre, in Thomas Street, Dandenong, known as the Little Afghan Bazaar. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Orchard owner Mitch McNab. Fruit growers are expecting a big influx of fruit fly and the state government has cut funding for pest control measures. If fruit fly infestation eventuates, growers like Mitch will be on the front line.Credit:Justin McManus
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Bates Smart interior design director Jeff Copolov and Open House Melbourne executive director Tania Davidge, outside Orica House. Formerly ICI House, Australia’s first modern skyscraper will be home to Melburnians’ “stories of the city” during the Open House Melbourne weekend in July.Credit:Joe Armao
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Maria Thattil takes a selfie with photographer Sam Tabone, sheltering in the rain before the Glamour on the Grid media wall on pit lane of the Albert Park Grand Prix track, Melbourne.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Locals Cade Wenngren and Samantha Stubbs inspect the beach erosion along the Gold Coast shoreline that was hit hard by Tropical Cyclone Alfred.Credit:Justin McManus
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Rising Festival organisers Gideon Obarzanek and Hannah Fox demonstrate the Space Out Competition.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Reflection of a hot air balloon as it flies past a Docklands building.Credit:Joe Armao
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Carlton’s Matthew Cottrell and Richmond’s Jack Ross ahead of their first match for the 2025 season at the MCG.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Gumatj elders Balupalu Yunupingu and Djawa Yunupingu exit the High Court of Australia, Canberra, after a landmark case.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Libby Woodhouse with one of the trees her community fought to save, an old fig tree. Large old trees are being marked to be felled in Euroa to make way for the Inland Rail Project. Residents are unhappy those trees will not be replaced.Credit:Justin McManus
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Michael and Pauline Hodder lost their 24-year-old daughter Elise, who was killed by a driver who was intoxicated and driving without a licence at the time of the crash. Elise’s friend was also seriously injured. The driver was immediately bailed after the incident. They are now for law reform in Victoria which would allow victims of crime to have a greater voice in the justice system.Credit:Joe Armao
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Greater Western Water has been stuffing up its bills for months on end. Ann Cunningham was billed for her entire apartment block’s water usage and still hasn’t received a correct bill. Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Blackburn and District Tree Preservation Society president David Morrison is among those concerned about the state government’s conflicting tree canopy plans and the impact they will have on tree cover.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Kimerah Ramnath and Amy Pejkovic’s TikTok content is driving women towards the Formula 1 fandom.Credit:Photograph by Chris Hopkins
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Artist Patricia Piccinini in her studio in Collingwood. She is taking on a teaching role at RMIT.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Duncan Hine and Glenn Myler at Melbourne City Marina in Docklands. They will sail their yacht Alive to Japan in the Melbourne Osaka Cup yacht race later this month.Credit:Eddie Jim
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The yacht Alive being tilted under Bolte Bridge with the help of water ballast and another boat pulling it. It has sailed from Hobart to dock at Melbourne City Marina at Docklands before it sets sail on March 30 on the Melbourne Osaka Cup yacht race.Credit:Eddie Jim
