NationalPhotographyThis was published 1 year agoThe Sydney Morning Herald, Photos of the Week, June 16, 202341 ImagesThe week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.June 16, 2023 — 1.04pmSaveLog in, register or subscribe to save articles for later.Save galleries for laterAdd galleries to your saved list and come back to them any time.Got it1/41Ngarrabul/Gomeroi//Kooma woman Waabii Adele Chapman-Burgess. The coming together of black and white people to acknowledge the massacre at Myall Creek has been hailed as a triumph of reconciliation.Credit:Rhett Wyman 2/41Blues player Mitchell Moses.Credit:Steven Siewert3/41The dawn water temperature at Manly Dam was 17.8 degrees during the week. Credit:Nick Moir4/41Ben Roberts-Smith arriving at Perth Domestic Terminal from Sydney.Credit:Ross SwanboroughAdvertisement5/41Hillsong founder Brian Houston arrives at court on Thursday.Credit:Nick Moir6/41Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen7/41Independent Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe holds back tears as she delivered a speech in the chamber alleging she had been assaulted in Parliament House.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen8/41Bus driver Brett Button leaves Cessnock police station on Tuesday afternoon.Credit:Janie Barrett9/41Myall Creek Memorial.Credit:Rhett Wyman10/41‘It’s tears of joy because they’re free’,” says Kamilaroi elder Sue Blacklock, a descendant of the massacred Myall Creek Station.Credit:Rhett Wyman11/41A worker with a beard wears a full face mask to avoid breathing in dangerous dust particles while the new WestConnex interchange tunnel is under construction. The project is on target to be completed by the end of the year.Credit:Jessica Hromas12/41Drag queen Victoria Mami and Jaxon Woods at the Arq nightclub.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone13/41Claire Neylan, 37, with daughter Olivia and son Tommy, who were born at opposite ends of the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit:Janie Barrett14/41Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Professor Stephen Robson ahead of an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.Credit:Alex EllinghausenAdvertisement15/41Ropers Seaside Pharmacy owner John Roper says the area around North Bondi shops and bus terminus needed to be “tidied up” and made safer for pedestrians.Credit:Janie Barrett16/41Hudson Young, Junior Paulo and Jarome Luai at the NSW Blues media opportunity in Coogee. Credit:Brook Mitchell17/41Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong during question time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen18/41Screenwriter and playwright Michelle Law at the Belvoir Theatre.Credit:Nick Moir19/41Repairs at the scene of the fire in Randle Street, Surry Hills.Credit:Steven Siewert20/41Oxford Street shopping precinct. Consumer confidence is now at its lowest point since April 2020, when the economy was shut down to deal with COVID.Credit:Steven Siewert21/41Swimmers brave the winter cold snap at Clovelly.Credit:Jessica Hromas22/41The Cooma community farewells Clare Nowland, who died after being Tasered by a police officer.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen23/411000 singers and an orchestra gather for ChorusOz 2023 Mahler 8, rehearsing at the Sydney Opera House.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos24/41Curator David Hansen with Sangrado, 1834 by Charles Rodius, ahead of the Charles Rodius exhibition at the State Library. Australia’s most intriguing, prolific and popular early artist created some of the best-known drawings and paintings of early Indigenous leaders, including Bungaree.Credit:Louise KennerleyAdvertisement25/41Caroline McGuigan from Clovelly encourages her children to play in the dirt outdoors to support their immune systems.Credit:James Brickwood26/41Once the city’s mainstay gay club, ARQ was nearly empty when the Herald visited on a Saturday night.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone27/41Ben Roberts-Smith departs a property in Perth, Western Australia, after arriving back in the country from New Zealand.Credit:Philip Gostelow28/41Police investigate a fatal bus accident which has killed 10 people near Branxton in the Hunter Valley. Credit:Nick Moir29/41Reflecting on the tragic bus crash in the NSW Hunter Valley, “Everyone will know somebody,” says Singleton Mayor Sue Moore.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone30/41Bernadette Bailey, who has lived in the Hunter Valley her whole life, said the bus crash tragedy would affect the whole community.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone31/41NSW Ambulance Chief Superintendent Luke Wiseman near the site of the fatal bus accident near Branxton in the Hunter Valley.Credit:Nick Moir32/41Premier Chris Minns with acting assistant commissioner Tracy Chapman at the crash site in the Hunter Valley.Credit:Nick Moir33/41Beulah Adams, descendant of a convict perpetrator at Myall Creek Station. It is the only time in Australia’s history where perpetrators of a massacre were arrested, tried and executed. Credit:Rhett Wyman 34/41Alvaro Barrington and Dean Cross with their joint artwork in Things That Are Real in Cement Fondu in Paddington.Credit:Janie Barrett35/41Loz Booth with her son at their Randwick home. He uses an iPad when dining at a restaurant.Credit:Louise Kennerley36/41Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen, Member for Kooyong Dr Monique Ryan and Member for Higgins, Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah in deep conversation inside an electric vehicle during the launch of the Parliamentary Friends of Electric Vehicles and Future Fuels, on the front lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen37/41Pam Brock, who has been awarded an OAM for services to bell-ringing.Credit:Duncan Wright38/41Rachel Ward and her daughter Matilda Brown at the family farm in Macksville on NSW’s Mid North Coast.Credit:James Brickwood39/41Former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell is selling his Bayview home, featuring stunning views.Credit:Janie Barrett40/41Mike White and Jennifer Coolidge from TV series The White Lotus are living it up in Sydney.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos41/41View of Myall Creek and Myall Creek Station. On June 10th 1838, 28 Wirrayaraay women, children and elderly men were murdered at Myall Creek Station. Credit:Rhett Wyman