Farmers Gilmour Catford, his son Andrew and brother Rod on their property in Morchard, near Goyder’s Line, South Australia. Picture: Matt Turner / The Australian
Best pictures of the year 2024
Here is our collection of the finest images from Australia and around the world from the year that was; captures that made us laugh, cry, sit up and take notice, or simply say ‘wow’.
Veteran radio announcer Alan Jones on the day he was arrested by NSW Police on charges of indecent assault. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian
Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long, co-directors of the Melanoma Institute and joint winners of the Australian of Year award for their pioneering work in the treatment of melanoma. Picture: John Feder / The Australian
Josie Fishwick, 12, has the rare genetic condition FOXG1, which leads to multiple developmental difficulties. Josie’s mum Sara removes her socks in their home in Penshurst. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The Australian
WiseTech’s Richard White after resigning as chief executive. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian
Anti-war activists protest the Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Picture: Jake Nowakowski
Jewish Israel supporters face off with pro-Palestine protesters in Melbourne. Picture: Jason Edwards
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Canberra Airport in June after he pleaded guilty in a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. Picture: AFP
Bill and Michelle Dunn lost their house during flooding at Degarra on the Bloomfield River, Queensland, in the aftermath of Cyclone Jasper. Picture: Brian Cassey / The Australian
King Charles III greets the crowd in Sydney during the royal tour. Picture: Rohan Kelly
ABC managing director David Anderson leaves the broadcaster’s Sydney office after announcing he would step down from the role. Picture: John Feder / The Australian
Police officer Amy Scott is hugged during a candlelight vigil to honour the victims of the Bondi Junction stabbing attack in April. Picture: Getty Images
Government Services Minister and former Labor Party leader Bill Shorten with wife Chloe, daughter Clementine and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after announcing he was leaving politics. Picture: AAP
Then Queensland Premier Steven Miles faces the media after huge swings against the government in two by-elections in Brisbane. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian
The night sky is seen from within a cave located in the Nullarbor. Picture: Stefan Eberhard
Donald Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt in July, in Pennsylvania. Picture: AP
Mr Trump as gunshots are fired during his campaign rally. Picture: Doug Mills / The New York Times
Secret Service agents tend to the Republican presidential candidate after the shooting. Picture: Getty Images
Mr Trump addresses supporters at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, in early November. Picture: Reuters
Nine chief executive Mike Sneesby in May amid growing criticism of his running of the network. Picture: Nikki Short / The Australian
Stills taken from vision shot by Liam Mendes, a reporter for The Australian, as he approached Nine chairman Peter Costello at Canberra Airport. Costello appeared to knock Mendes to the ground. Picture: Liam Mendes
Channel Nine’s former director of news and current affairs, Darren Wick. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian
Cheng Lei photographed at her home in Melbourne. Picture: Arsineh Houspian / The Australian
Cheng Lei speaks at the 60th anniversary dinner for The Australian. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The Australian
Australia's last surviving WW2 coastwatcher, Jim Burrowes, 101, and his 100-year-old wife, Beryl, also a WW2 vet who served in the RAAF. Picture: Arsineh Houspian / The Australian
Dean Parkin near his home on North Stradbroke Island, just east of Brisbane. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian
Adrian Portelli, founder of LMCT+. Picture: Josh Robenstone
Frank Lowy at his home in Tel Aviv. Picture: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv / The Australian
Australian singer Deborah Conway at her home in Melbourne. Picture: Alex Coppel / The Australian
Sophie Galaise was sacked as chief executive of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after she tried to cancel the performance of a pianist who spoke on stage about Gaza. Picture: Arsineh Houspian / The Australian
Steven M. Lowy AM at his office in Sydney. Picture: Jane Dempster / The Australian
New Queensland Premier and LNP leader David Crisafulli after his election win. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian
Guta Goldstein, 94, survived the Lodz ghetto from the start of WW2, then Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen and one final camp, from where she was liberated, aged 14. Picture: Aaron Francis / The Australian
Krystal Barter at home in Sydney. Krystal was diagnosed with the BCRA gene mutation when her second child was aged one. Krystal now leads a national push for access to genomic medicine for all patients. Picture: Nikki Short / The Australian
Melanie Chester, winemaker and Managing Director of Giant Steps Winery in the Yarra Valley. Picture: Arsineh Houspian / The Australian
Australian actress Anna Torv in Melbourne. Picture: Aaron Francis / The Australian
Australian Oscar-winning Director Adam Elliott. Picture: Nikki Short / The Australian
99-year-old Holocaust survivor Abram Goldberg at home in Melbourne. Picture: Alex Coppel / The Australian
Emilie Seigle attends to Absurde after trackwork in preparation for the Melbourne Cup. Picture: Darren Tindale
Brazil’s Gabriel Medina after catching a big wave during the Olympic Games surfing competition, in Tahiti, in July. Picture: AFP
Australia’s Raygun competes in the breaking competition during the Paris Olympics. Picture: Getty Images
Australia’s Kaylee McKeown celebrates after winning Olympic gold in the 100m backstroke event. Picture: Michael Klein
At least 20 people were killed across Ukraine as Russian cruise and ballistic missiles slammed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
A woman breaks down at the memorial to Yulia Waxer Daunov, at the site of the Nova Festival. It marked the one-year anniversary of the attacks by Hamas. Picture: Getty Images
A picture taken from northern Israel, along the border with southern Lebanon, in September, shows a fire following an Israeli bombardment. Picture Jalaa Marey / AFP
A Hezbollah rocket intercepted by the IDF over northern Israel in August. Picture: AFP
NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University, where pro-Palestinian students were barricaded inside a building and set up an encampment, in New York City in April. Picture: AFP
A woman throws a drink in the face of Nigel Farage during the UK election campaign in June. Picture: AFP
Danish King Frederik X kisses his wife Queen Mary after his proclamation in January. Picture: Getty Images
Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs kisses Taylor Swift after his team beat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, in February. Picture: Getty Images
Journalist Evan Gershkovich hugs his mother, Ella Milman, after landing back in the US following a prisoner exchange. Picture: Getty Images
Starship’s Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launchpad during a test flight, in Texas, in October. Picture: AFP
A Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport in January. Picture: AFP
Residents walk past piled up cars following deadly floods in Valencia’s De La Torre neighbourhood, Spain, in October. Picture: AFP
The scene after a container ship crashed into a bridge in Baltimore, in March. Picture: Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post
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