The Age photos of the week, August 16, 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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Lance and Shane Wiffen have been allocated more water for their oyster and mussel farming operation as part of state government plans to ramp up production in Victoria’s shellfish industry.Credit:Jason South
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Tarmo Raadik with Kangaroo River perch specimens which could be Australia’s first extinct fish. The only six specimens that exist are on loan to Museums Victoria for taxonomic studyCredit:Simon Schluter
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Abbotsford Convent artistic programmer Dario Vacirca with CEO Justine Hyde and a neon bat artwork by Ky-ya Nicholson Ward.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Melbourne artist Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis with her piece that has won the Telstra Multimedia Award at the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards titled Pitta Pitta (Extracted) and Pitta Pitta (Googles Gaze) 2025. The NATSIAA show is on at the Museum and Art Gallery of NT in DarwinCredit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Monica Lim is a composer and sound artist who is taking part in Listening Acts at the Now or Never festivalCredit:Eddie Jim
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Aboard Lance and Shane Wiffen’s vessel. They have been allocated more water for their oyster and mussel farming operation as part of state government plans to ramp up production in Victoria’s shellfish industryCredit:Jason South
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MSO Season launch William Clark Aurora Henrich, Wendy Clarke, Nicolas Fleury and Elina FaskhCredit:Simon Schluter
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Actress Emily Browning at ACMICredit:Eddie Jim
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Luciana and Mario Martini from the Careless documentary. The documentary is about the aged care crisis. Luciano and Mario have been married for many years and want to stay living at home for as long as possibleCredit:Justin McManus
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Michael Allen of Core Roasters in Brunswick.Credit:Simon Schluter
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It’s not all business: Taryan and Max Mathews at the Australian Alpaca National Show at Bendigo showgrounds.Credit:Joe Armao
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Property buyers advocate Cate Bakos estimates that about 80 per cent of the properties she analyses for clients are underquotedCredit:Chris Hopkins
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Youth Projects chief executive Trent Miller with Dylan D’Emanuele. The organisation helped Dylan get a job where he is thriving.Credit:Joe Armao
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Josh Haywood pictured at his house in Reservoir that he bought after engaging a buyers agent to navigate the misleading price guidesCredit:Aaron Francis
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Andrew Wenhlowskyj and Anthony Tran, of 3D printing start-up Lyka Smith, part of a new breed of businesses setting up in Melbourne’s west.Credit:Justin McManus
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An attendee at a neo-Nazi gathering poses in a regional laneway last weekendCredit:Luis Enrique Ascui
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Premier Jacinta Allan and MP Nathan Lambert with milk bar owners Alli and Samantha Fraser on Thursday.Credit:Justin McManus
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Narelle Beurle, runs the Ladies Back on Your Bike riding group, she takes her bike on trains. Victoria intends to ban ebikes and escooters from all trains, which some users have described as a “kneejerk” response to the unlikely risk of them causing firesCredit:Joe Armao
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Owners of Ponyfish Island at the bar, Grant Smillie, Jerome Borazio and Andrew MackinnonCredit:Wayne Taylor
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Pete Hill scoured the bushland near his house after hearing the boom of a meteor as it passed over his home in MaldonCredit:Justin McManus
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Police and Forensic officers at the scene of a double murder Mount Waverley. A friend of the couple, Elisha Brown, drops flowers off at the scene.Credit:Justin McManus
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Charges against Adam Sontag were dropped after making a citizen’s arrest on a teenage boy, who was wearing a balaclava and allegedly tagging a street signCredit:Simon Schluter
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Co-founder of The Walk Agency, Nick Cantor.Credit:Jason South
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A cyclist riding in the lanes due to be narrowed on Elizabeth Street in Richmond North.Credit:Simon Schluter
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Marelen Yap on the platform at Rockbank stationCredit:Jason South
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Inaugural AFLW players Darcy Vescio, Carlton alongside Collingwood’s Brit BonniciCredit:Joe Armao
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