The Age photos of the week, April 12, 2025
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The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
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Tony Mokbel walks out of Victoria’s Court of Appeal after he was granted bail.Credit:Joe Armao
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Ballan CFA crew members Billy Smith, Matt Gorman and Ben Hatfield.Credit:Alex Coppel
3/26
Ooti and Meliki, Dingo’s at the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre, Toolern Vale.Credit:Chris Hopkins
4/26
Local politicians’ signs on the walls of one of Nunawading Stadium’s oldest courts. The club is chasing funding pledges from the Liberal and Labour parties to rebuild their old basketball stadium in Burwood East.Credit:Penny Stephens
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Tamsin Jowett (R) is a divorcee who has stayed friends with one of her ex’s friends, Oenone.Credit:Chris Hopkins
6/26
American BBQ and pit master Chef Jarrod Di Blasi tending to Fancy Hank’s lamb sausage.Credit:Aaron Francis
7/26
Stacey Edwards and Kent Morris in front of Stacey’s work. Kent Morris, curator of the new show Black In-Justice and head of the Torch program, and Stacey Edwards, former prisoner and now artist, who came thru the Torch program which helps Indigenous people who are in jail reconnect with their culture through art and has been very successful in helping get people on a path to not reoffending.Credit:Justin McManus
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Long-term Flemington resident Janine Forbes-Rolfe with her two children, Felix 15 and Fleur 13.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Carolyn Holmes, 8, (front) among three generations of the Lougoon family in Bendigo.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
10/26
Alan Hamilton told his son, Travis Hamilton (pictured) that he wanted to be buried at sea. It is extremely unusual and comes with numerous regulations, but the family fulfilled their Dad’s wishes.Credit:Jason South
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Brett Beattie from Woodend is checked by security outside the MCG ahead of the match. Security has been beefed up creating long queues to entry after 2 men were arrested at the last game held at MCG and found to have guns on them. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Rumaysa Salman was a student last year who experienced racism while at both primary and secondary school. Credit:Joe Armao
13/26
Tony Mokbel and his partner shop at Northland Shopping Centre in Melbourne on his first day of freedom.Credit:Alex Coppel
14/26
George Semertzidis lives in Whittlesea, in the seat of McEwen and is undecided on how he will vote in the Federal electionCredit:Justin McManus
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David Laird (with his grandfather’s medals) ANZAC ceremony organiser in front of the lonesome pine grown from a pine cone brought back from Gallipoli by a Victorian WWI soldier in Wattle park, Burwood.Credit:Joe Armao
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Kishwar Chowdhury is developing cooking classes for Caulfield Grammar students. Parents are calling for longer school hours with enriching activities that will enable parents to work longer hours. Kishwar is a former Masterchef contestant, photographed at home with her children Mikayle 15 and Seraphina 8.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at Sunshine Station on Monday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Lien Tran is the Co-founder and Director of Hepatitis B Voices. She has Hepatitis B and is an advocate for early detection and support for fellow sufferers.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Shant Allekian sees the market rout as a buying opportunity.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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St Kilda mother Madeline Silins and her daughter Myka, who has recently started day care.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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The Boulevard residents Sue, Mira, David, Simon and Desiree, who will fight the council’s proposal to repair Melbourne’s most dilapidated road, determined to preserve the potholed road’s “country charm”.Credit:Justin McManus
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Maribyrnong Truck Action Group president Martin Wurt says the failure of the $15 million truck trade-in scheme that promised to reduce pollution Melbourne’s inner-west felt like a broken promise.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Night Cat owner Justin Stanford is seeking help to fund sound-proofing upgrades so it can continue to operate as a live music venue after two new residential towers are built nearby.Credit:Simon Schluter
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The great Good Food Melbourne croissant taste test.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Keith Herft is bringing his Oscar-nominated abilities back to Australia, at Weta, the renowned visual effects and animation studio.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to a sheep farm owned by Martin and Rebecca Eggerling, south of Longreach, Queensland, to inspect flood damage during the 2025 federal election campaign in the electorate of Maranoa.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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