The Age photos of the week, February 22, 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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Becky Faulkner, runs the animal training for movie, TV and advertising business We Do Animals. This year she’s running a series of workshops teaching members of the public how to train their chickens.Credit:Joe Armao
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Wild weather with strong winds whips up dust from bare paddocks near Cressy. Farmer Scott Stewart deals with dust as best he can.Credit:Jason South
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Beza Gizaw, with son Yeabsira, says her flat is her haven in Flemington.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Lead female star Lee Abrahmsen and male singer Steven Gallop will perform in Melbourne Opera’s production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg at the Melbourne Exhibition Building.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Larry is an age pensioner with a taxi card. He got into an altercation with a taxi driver who then kicked him out of his taxi and ran over his ankle. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Grassroots sports and climate change petition AFLW stars Nicola Barr and Emma Kearney.
100 athletes have signed on to a grassroots climate pledge calling for more action on climate change to protect people’s access to sport.Credit:Justin McManus
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Maryam Hamka’s family outside the Supreme Court after the sentencing of her killer Toby Loughnane.Credit:Jason South
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St Kilda residents Grant and Melissa Munday and Rocco Sorace say every authority has hand balled the issue of the noisy container deposit machine outside their homes.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Chefs Eun Hee An, John Rivera and Rosheen Kaul are getting creative with the dim sim.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Ryan Street, owner of General Games at his Parkmore store. Ryan Street has had to spend thousands of dollars beefing up security at his stores after a series of ran sackings at game shops across Melbourne. Thieves have broken into more than a dozen stores and stolen an estimated million in Pokemon cards.Credit:Joe Armao
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Shane Patton resigned as Victoria’s Police Chief Commissioner following a no-confidence vote. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan (rear left).Credit:Eddie Jim
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Eamon Donnelly at Cowderoy’s Dairy in St Kilda West. His book captures many of Melbourne’s old milk bars.Credit:Simon Schluter
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NFL Academy players Hamza El-Ghobashy and Nikau Hepi with NFL Academy senior manager, Will BryceCredit:Paul Harris
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Sandy Guy with her son Liam who was ripped off and assaulted by his taxi driver.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Students at Bethany Catholic Primary School in Werribee North practise their phonics skills with principal Joanne Webster.Credit:Jason South
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The church that’s born again: Alison Wren at St Clement’s in Eurobin.Credit:Jason Robins
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Pooja Mathur and her children Rishith and Rivaan are one of an
increasing number of families choosing private schools.Credit:Justin McManus
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Premier Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Anthony Carbines shortly after announcing police chief Shane Patton’s contract would not be renewed.Credit:Joe Armao
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Jessica Hall is fed up with her charity being ripped off by taxi drivers.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Emmanuella Grace took on a large mortgage near the peak of the market because she was buying her forever home.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Stan Graczyk of Eggporium, one of the country’s biggest egg retailers at The Queen Victoria Market.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Historian Anne Beggs-Sunter at the site of an eight-storey development that has been approved in Ballarat, raising concerns for heritage in the area, including views of the skyline. Credit:Jason South
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Paul Levey was one of serial paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale’s victims. Abused daily as a child by Ridsdale at a presbytery in Mortlake, Paul is relieved the child abuser has died aged 90.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Kent Stannard at Flinders Pier. Kent is a marine scientist specialising in white sharks. He is alarmed by a state government decision to get rid of fisheries officers, saying it could open the door to poaching.Credit:Joe Armao
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15 year old Charlie Dunn Rice with his siblings Spiderman AKA Thomas Dunn Woodhouse 7 years old and Ava Dunn Woodhouse 6 years old and Mum Kate Dunn in their Burwood home in Melbourne. Charlie is one of a growing number of young carers who face challenges when it comes to education. His siblings have complex needs.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Retired sculptor Peter Corlett.Credit:Justin McManus
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JeyJey Bink has played more than 3500 hours of The Sims 4 since COVID-19 hit.Credit:Joe Armao
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Retired chief investigator for Victorian Fisheries Murray Donaldson.Credit:Jason South
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