The Age photos of the week, December 20, 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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Statewide Victorian Treaty Cultural Celebration where Ngarra Murray takes a moment with the final Treaty documentCredit:Justin McManus
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Leo Donati and son Marcello of Donati’s butcher shop on Lygon Street, Carlton which will be closing early 2026Credit:Eddie Jim
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Jarrod West is an Indigenous man and former firefighter who received tens of thousands of dollars of CityLink fines in the immediate aftermath of 2009’s deadly Black Saturday bushfires. A book, Footsteps in the Ash, and our own reporting show that Jarrod at age 19 was the main firefighter involved in a very traumatic rescue in Strathewen of a badly burned young girl, whose mother, father and sister all died of burns.Credit:Justin McManus
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Tash Ching, a paediatrician and mother of three, wants parents to be kinder to themselves about managing screen timeCredit:Paul Jeffers
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NSW Premier Chris Minns laying flowers outside Bondi Pavilion on MondayCredit:Edwina Pickles
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Scout member Angus McDonald with friends. The future of Warrandyte Scouts and other community organisations is under a proposed council shake up to community organisationsCredit:Simon Schluter
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Western Bulldogs teammates Rory Lobb and Ed Richards ahead of the State of Origin squad announcementsCredit:Jason South
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School dux Jennifer Schutz (left), Lola Aughey and James Edgar at Forest Hill College, which has broken into the ’30 club’, schools with a median VCE study scores of 30 or aboveCredit:Simon Schluter
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Western Ring road interchange, West Gate freeway before the tunnel openingCredit:Joe Armao
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Classic cars line up before going through the West Gate tunnel last weekendCredit:Justin McManus
11/24
Stephen and Jo Silvagni leave the County Court after sentencing of son Tom, who was found guilty of rapeCredit:Joe Armao
12/24
Jason and Kayley Marriner in the auditorium of the Comedy TheatreCredit:Simon Schluter
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Yothu Yindi and guest artists performing Treaty to an ecstatic crowd during the Treaty Cultural Celebration at John Cain ArenaCredit:Justin McManus
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Todd Graham and his 13-year-old dog NormanCredit:Steven Siewert
15/24
Cape Verde captain Yosief Kassa, Madagascar captain Jonny Tewoderos and Comoros captain Okilo Dimo. All three teams will be played in the semi-finals of African Nations CupCredit:Eddie Jim
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Ben Schrever in front of his prefab home. New modelling shows that regulatory changes could increase the number of prefab homes built in Australia every yearCredit:Justin McManus
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The Tote has a history of facing existential threats due to planning issues and the pressure from development. Shane Hilton led a massive crowdfunding campaign to buy the venue and save it from apartment development. He was a key voice pushing for the new “live music precincts” planning controls which will better protect venues from developers and neighbours who complain about noiseCredit:Wayne Taylor
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Andrew Bretherton, disability advocate. Disability advocates have criticised state government plans to spend millions on new tram stops that will not accommodate wheelchairs, despite a legal obligation to improve accessibilityCredit:Jason South
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Carley Mchome and her Mum Ros and daughter Eliana in Ros’s Port Melbourne apartment. Carley has run the Ujamaa Tanzania Foundation which houses and cares for traumatised and orphaned children in Arusha, Tanzania in eastern Africa since 2010 and is home for Christmas with her husband and kidsCredit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Mourners pay their respects to the victims of the Bondi terror attackCredit:Steven Siewert
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Angus Grant and Julia Ades studied politics, a new VCE subject after global politics and Australian politics were merged into one subjectCredit:Joe Armao
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A woman holds bee balloons among mourners attending the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda who was killed in last Sunday’s terror attack at Bondi BeachCredit:Kate Geraghty
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Uniformed police have an increased presence around Mordialloc beach and surrounding areas in response to recent public order incidentsCredit:Joe Armao
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Travis Head is back at his home ground, Adelaide Oval, where he averages 79.25 with the willow at Test levelCredit:Matt Turner
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