The Age photos of the week, August 23, 2025
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The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age
1/21
Protest agitators under the guise of Pro Trans rights activists marched through the streets of Melbourne. Victoria Police made many arrests and pepper spray was deployed.Credit:Chris Hopkins
2/21
Nam Le has written a poem about the “ghosts” of the convent, which is being set to music at a concert later this month. Pictured with Lili Stephens
Timothy O’Malley.Credit:Simon Schluter
3/21
Bandicoots on Churchill Island.Credit:Eddie Jim
4/21
Dr Sarah Whitelaw is an emergency doctor at Royal Melbourne Hospital.Credit:Paul Jeffers
5/21
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers arrives for a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
6/21
Claire Brookes is founder of 9 Lives Project Rescue, whose volunteers go out at night trapping stray cats, rehabilitate them and find them homes.Credit:Eddie Jim
7/21
Col Needham, founder of imdb.com at the Forum theatre in Melbourne.Credit:Wayne Taylor
8/21
Sergi Arbusa, artist and founder of Penique Productions, with the MATRIA installation.Credit:Justin McManus
9/21
Idit Cameron and her daughter Neta.Credit:Wayne Taylor
10/21
The Melbourne Free Palestine rally saw thousands of protestors march from the State Library to the NGV and ABC buildings in Southbank.Credit:Paul Jeffers
11/21
Civil engineer and Heidelberg United player Fletcher Fulton.Credit:Wayne Taylor
12/21
86-year-old Doris LeRoy in her home in Altona. Doris’ son Terry died recently in the stroke unit of Sunshine hospital.Credit:Chris Hopkins
13/21
The orange poles are a homage to CityLink’s Cheese Stick.Credit:Simon Schluter
14/21
New RSL Victorian president Dr Mark Schroffel at the charity’s CBD headquarters.Credit:Joe Armao
15/21
Sameh Murad with his daughters, Mayan, 3, and Mirna, 2.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
16/21
Jamie Bucirde at one of her favourite Melbourne solo venues, Napier Quarter.Credit:Chris Hopkins
17/21
Jewellers Matt Wynne and Maddy Woosley in their Rathdowne Village store.Credit:Simon Schluter
18/21
Former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty is photographed at his home in Brisbane.Credit:Dan Peled
19/21
Kate Burns, who was severely anaemic and had been misdiagnosed by five doctors before her father stepped in to demand she have a blood test.Credit:Philip Gostelow
20/21
Sam Aftasi and other Docklands residents want to change their part of the Docklands name to Yarra’s Edge.Credit:Justin McManus
21/21
The 3rd and final day of the Economic Reform Roundtable meeting begins at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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