The Age photos of the week, May 3, 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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Kelly Ann Blake and her dingo, Jack.Credit:Jason South
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Catherine Buck and Joel Morgan are tying the knot on May 3 and shall navigate having their wedding on Election Day.Credit:Simon Schluter
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The Anzac Day veterans march and parade in Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Dr. Berhan Ahmed CEO Africacause (centre) speaks to locals in Footscray following the shooting death of Abdifatah Ahmed by police.Credit:Joe Armao
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Erin Patterson leaves Melbourne Supreme Court.Credit:Jason South
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Jordan Cook and family at Anzac Day Dawn Service in Melbourne. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Irene Cus has lived in her home in Keilor Downs for 20 years and is selling up to move to Woodend.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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John Englart lives in merri-bek, which already has purple-lidded glass-only bins. 31 Victorian councils are campaigning against the introduction of a fourth glass-only recycling bin, arguing the system will be costly and ineffective. They want the container deposit scheme expanded to include glass bottles instead. Credit:Justin McManus
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The Anzac Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Blockbuster curator Ayesha Bux, left, local hip hop choreographer Jasmine TXO, seated and wearing a cap, as well as a handful of young Pakistani-Australian students in traditional dress.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Huntingtower School principal Shan Christensen with students Jamie, Ryan and Arundathi.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Jeff Collings at Anzac Day Dawn Service in Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Federal Member for Deakin, Michael Sukkar of the Liberal Party.Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Princes Hill principal Trevor Smith and students Iris, Isaac, Celeste, Josh and Zadie. Princes Hill Secondary College has had consistently good VCE results.Credit:Justin McManus
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99yo George Oshlack shot four under his 34 handicap to win Cranbourne Golf Club’s men’s 18-hole competition.Credit:Daniel Pockett
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Melbourne’s Novak Palombo is the top-ranked 12-year-old tennis player in the world.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Canadian performer Beany at the launch of 2025 YIRRAMBOI Festival at the Malthouse Theatre. A 10-day celebration of First Nations culture, art, music and dance. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Robert Arnold lives near the proposed glamping site near Kirwans Bridge. There is an application for a glamping development next to Bob’s property. Community members are challenging it in VCAT, saying it’ll damage the wetlands and wildlife and the area flooded in 2022.Credit:Justin McManus
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Florence Nichols, aged 16, has just started her VCE Vocational Major at Coburg High. The VCE VM allows kids to finish year 12 but study for a vocational qualification while at the same time. So Florence is studying animal care at TAFE while she completes her last two years at high school. Pictured with her pet rabbit Quincy.Credit:Wayne Taylor
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Telstra is working to heritage list three public phones across Australia, including this phone in Brunswick West that is Australia’s most called-from public phone to crisis support lines like Lifeline. Jordy Kornfeld and Giulia Di Sipio run the closest mental health service to the phone box – across the road.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Back Dog Institute launches its Teens & Screens program – a new classroom program designed to help young people navigate the digital world in a healthier, more informed way. Joanne Cervantes 17, is among the first to participate in the program.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Tammie Zarro and Graham Scott, of the Friends of Gardiners Creek Reserve Burwood, share the concerns of Whitehorse and Monash councils over the SRLA’s plans to build towers of up to 20 storeys right next to this rare slice of bush.Credit:Joe Armao
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Ecologist and egg farmer Sarah Hunter has planted about 100 native trees on council land outside her rural property, but has been given a deadline of April 30 to remove them, or the Nillumbik council will do so. Hunter is defiant and says the indigenous plants have been planted in a council-designated biodiversity corridor.Credit:Justin McManus
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Bob Arnold on Kirwans’s Bridge.
There is an application for a glamping development next to Bob’s property. Credit:Justin McManus
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