The Age photos of the week, April 5, 2025

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Artist and curator David Sequeira has curated Floribunda, an exhibition that examines our relationship with flowers. The work is on loan from the NGV and is being exhibited at Bunjil Place, Narre Warren in Melbourne’s South East.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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Gout Gout at the Maurie Plant Meet at Lakeside Stadium.Credit:Luke Hemer

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Kathryn Joy has a lived experience of domestic violence having lost her parents to domestic homicide.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Tony Mokbel’s legal team including barrister, Julie Condon, KC and Sarah Tricarico leave The Court of Appeal after his hearing, in Melbourne.Credit:Alex Coppel

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Dr Alex Maisey in a rainforest gully at Kallista in the Dandenong Ranges which is damaged, thanks to feral deer. Feral deer are running rampant in Victoria and are protected as a game species.Credit:Joe Armao

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Cranbourne West Primary School is a ‘school out of poverty’, which uses its Human Powered Vehicles Program - basically covered recumbent pushbikes - to help its students from rough and trauma affected backgrounds engage with school and learning.Credit:Joe Armao

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Pippa McPherson is an Australian-Korean adoptee who is pushing for a fed inquiry. Truth commission preliminary findings in Seoul found there was systemic fraud in the adoption process, falsification of documents and mass exportation of babies for profit.Credit:Joe Armao

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Abbotsford Primary School principal Keith McNeil with students (front) Lior, Chiara and Juliette, and (rear) Lloyd, Daria and Madeleine. The state government is announcing parents will be able to buy generic, non-branded clothes for part of the school uniform.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Young fans plea for an autograph at the Maurie Plant Meet at Lakeside Stadium.Credit:Luke Hemer

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15-year-old Lok Lok iprefers to be pushed around at the annual Gold Rush, a golden retriever gathering in Myrniong.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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James was diagnosed with ADHD after emerging from lockdown in the pandemic - part of a growing cohort diagnosed post-pandemic.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Marco 7 and Matteo 3 at Kusama’s Obliteration Room at the NGV.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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The Australian Sand Sculpting Championships run until April 27 at Frankston foreshore. Father and daughter team in the double’s competition, Jim and Anna McCauley are sculpting a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde piece.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Dandenong Ramadan night festival.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Comedian Josh Glanc at one of his favourite haunts for a meal in Melbourne, the Boreks Stand at Queen Victoria Market.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Taras Kontek (c) Jin Li, Rebecca Silver, Mike Samos and Suzanne Gooda are residents of apartment buildings that are adjacent to the Junction Oval. They are concerned about Cricket Victoria’s plan to erect light towers around the ground.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Stuart Thompson in his Hawthorn apartment that he bought with help from a Government Scheme.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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Marcus Matear and Jennifer Leung enjoy their garden in Footscray.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Amelia Geiss is a student who is renting in a share house in Carnegie on a tight budget. Amelia will likely have to find a new place as their landlord is expecting to sell the property.Credit:Paul Jeffers