The Age photos of the week, April 26, 2025
30 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025 Most Outstanding Show Award winner Damien Warren - Smith at The Toff, Curtain House Melbourne. His show is called Garry Starr Classic PenguinsCredit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Molly Picklum heads out for her first heat at Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach 2025Credit:Justin McManus
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Mother-of-three Jessica Marsh worries about the effects of truck pollution from the Port of Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Former Geelong footballer Tom Hawkins plays his first senior match for Finley since 2005 on Good Friday against old foes Deniliquin.Credit:Jason South
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A ‘peaceful protest’ calling for action to be taken against the officers who shot dead Abdifatah Ahmed in Footscray. The death has caused deep grief in African community and they are calling for additional community support in the area instead of more police.Credit:Jason South
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Rae Berge has had continual storm water flooding at her Moonee Ponds propertyCredit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Australian actor George Xanthis stars in The Chosen, a prestige drama about the life of Jesus, which has garnered more than 280 million viewers worldwide.Credit:Alex Coppel
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Nationals candidate for the federal seat of Bendigo, Andrew Lethlean, handing over a beer at his bar in Bendigo on Good Friday.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Sam Elkin at the Vigil outside the Coles supermarket where a man was shot dead by police in Footscray the previous dayCredit:Simon Schluter
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Stan Middleton, Vietnam War veteran and unofficial historian of the Vietnam Football League at home in Pakenham in Melbourne’s South East. Australian conscripts during the Vietnam War organised themselves into footy teams and played seasons at the base in Vung Tau between 1966 and 1971.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Filmmaker Michael Shanks has his debut film, Together, opening Sydney Film Festival. It’s a horror film which sold to US distributor Neon for a reported $US17 million at Sundance this year - a remarkable result for a director who came up making films on YouTube.Credit:Jason South
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MP for the Federal seat of Bendigo, Lisa Chesters in Bendigo, Central Victoria,Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Joe Moran is studying politics and International relations and like many young Australian males, are bucking an international trend in moving towards conservative and alt-right wing partiesCredit:Dean Sewell
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Natasha Lanza feels like her gender contributed to the delay in diagnosis of her cancer.Credit:Jason South
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Michaela Sacho, worker at All Things Equal, a cafe which employs people with disability.Credit:Justin McManus
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Ben Ryan looked at buying a home, but the prices were too high.Credit:Justin McManus
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Melbourne woman Rebecca Weale believes her delayed cancer diagnosis robbed her of the chance to preserve her fertility.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Club president Ashley Haynes and Tom’s dad John Hawkins (R) watch Former Geelong footballer Tom Hawkins plays his first senior match for Finley since 2005 on Good Friday against old foes DeniliquinCredit:Jason South
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Apollo Bay has just entered stage 2 water restrictions. Sally Cannon said the place has been very dry but many people still don’t know about the restrictionsCredit:Jason South
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton visited the Sydney Royal Easter Show pictured throwing wool onto a Wool Grading Table. Credit:James Brickwood
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New Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Students from Saint Monica’s Primary School L-R Henry Evans, 6, Jenson Lambeth, 11, Evie Bonnici, 11, and Aria Panella, 5, lighting candles at St Monica’s Catholic Church in Moonee Ponds for Pope Francis, who died.Credit:Paul Jeffers
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Bree Rizzo celebrates winning the Final of the Powercor Women’s Gift during the 2025 Stawell Gift at Central Park in StawellCredit:Luke Hemer
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Housing Minister Harriet Shing outside the former VicRoads site, where the state government has rezoned the old building in Kew for housing.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Peter Curtin, wrongly drafted into the army, is still waiting for justice 56 years later.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Leah Myers has completed two teacher master’s degrees and is now teaching her colleagues.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Gout Gout mowed down the field in his heat at Stawell Gift 2025Credit:Luke Hemer
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Great-great-grandson John Harley pictured at Alfred Deakin’s former home in Point Lonsdale. This is the seaside residence of Australia’s second prime minister Alfred Deakin. His great-grandson Tom Harley wants the federal government to buy it so it doesn’t fall into private hands. Some descendants want to sell. Unless the Commonwealth buys it, he fears it will potentially be subdivided. Credit:Jason South
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Many Australian voters have cast their ballots already after early voting opened across Australia. Polling booth at the Holy Family Parish, Maidstone.Credit:Jason South
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The Pope’s portrait beneath the altar during Mass at Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne after the death of Pope Francis, conducted by Archbishop Peter A Comensoli.Credit:Justin McManus
