Fairfax photos of the week - May 17, 2018
42 ImagesA week in photos from award winning Fairfax photographers for the week ending May 17, 2018. Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH and @theage_photo Like our photos? Selected images available from www.fairfaxphotos.com
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James Harrison who has donated blood for more than 60 years and saving 2.4 million babies. James' blood is used to create Anti-D to protect unborn babies from Rhesus disease and is giving his last donation and is surrounded by some of the children he has saved in the arms of their mothers.Photo: Steven Siewert
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Tourists at Echo Point Katoomba take selfies, as Mt Solitary in the Blue Mountains is set alight during a hazard reduction burn being conducted by The National Parks in conjunction with RFS crews from South Katoomba and Wentworth Falls.Photo: Dean Sewell
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Ubuntu, African children's choir touring Australia. Patience Nalugo was a little girl in the second grade at school in Kampala, Uganda when her father died of cancer. She soon learnt singing was the best way to deal with her sadness, and at the age of nine was selected to take part in the Uganda-based African Children's choir,made up of children aged under 10, who have lost one or both parents through war, famine or disease. "Singing not only brings healing to my soul, it has given me an international language that speaks to people all over the world," she said.Photo: Louise Kennerley
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Anwar Ibrahim talks with Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at his home in Kuala Lumpur, ending 3 years of incarceration. Photo: Kate Geraghty
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A leading WA psychologist says the extraordinary statement made by Aaron Cockman, the father of four children slain in in their beds near Margaret River last Friday, pointed to a perfect storm of shock, grief and trauma. On Sunday Mr Cockman gave a stirringly candid interview to reporters outside the Margaret River police station, during which he said he believed the children’s grandfather Peter Miles, who allegedly pulled the trigger on the family, "did not snap" but had been "thinking this through for a long time".Photo: James Brickwood
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Manfred Zabinskas with a couple of the kangaroos Ollie and Stanley that he cares for at his sanctuary.Photo: Chris Hopkins
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A surfer enjoys autumn waves at sunrise in Tamarama.Photo: Brook_Mitchell
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Historical gathering of Aboriginal Elders at Parliament House. Victorian Aboriginal Clan Elders meet at Parliament House to provide guidance and claim their seat at the table of the state governments Treaty process. Clan Elders are concerned that they have been left out of the Treaty process. Boonwurrung elder Carolyn Briggs with Greens MP Lidia Thorpe reads out statement from the Inaugural Clan Elders Council on Treaty.Photo: Justin McManus
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A truck driving through snow in Black Springs, Central Tablelands, NSW.Photo: Nick Moir
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Staff at the Ambulance Call Centre in Sydney. Photo: Janie Barrett
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Betty and Amanda, right, share a Reservoir rooming house. “I didn’t expect life or my finances to be like this,” says Amanda Sneddon, 47, with a tired shrug. She gets Newstart unemployment support and some rent assistance (a total income of $650 a fortnight) and pays $225 a week in rent for her small room, leaving just $100 a week for everything else.Photo: Chris Hopkins
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Brian Caccianiga (black hat) and a small band of disability advocates blocked trams on Sydney Road in Brunswick to highlight the lack of access for people in wheelchairs, people with prams and elderly people all of whom require level access entry to trams.Photo: Jason South
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A fisherman braves the windy conditions on St Kilda pier. Photo: Joe Armao
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Mother and younger sister and also family members of the car crash victim in Ringwood turn up at the scene after dark. Photo: Eddie Jim
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A child runs through snow to school at Black Springs on NSW Central Tablelands.Photo: Nick Moir
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Paramedic Shani, visiting the family of Hussam Ali, Thalia, their two boys Jan, Isaac and newly born Giselle. A fortnight ago Shani took a call whilst working in the 000 call room. It was Hussam, who's partner was giving birth at home. Shani guided them through the birth and this was the first time they have met one another since that call. Photo: James Brickwood
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Photograph shows a Police Forensics investigator on the property of Cynda and Peter Miles in Osmington, south of Perth and 20 kilometres north-east of the town of Margaret River, where an apparent muder suicide took place early Friday morning. The bodies of 4 Children and 3 Adults were found. Photo: James Brickwood
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Giraffe enclosure at Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney.Photo: Louie Douvis
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Portrait of American photographer Debi Cornwall whose series 'Gitmo At Home', is being exhibited as part of the Head On photographic festival.Photo: James Brickwood
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Michelle Lim takes a swim at Coogee Beach 'to feel alive' on a cold stormy autumn day.Photo: Jessica Hromas
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Alice Zaslavsky with veggies for a story on her promoting veggies to kids.Photo: Simon Schluter
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Tony Sheldon (as Bernadette centre), 2 Gumbies (Blake Appelqvist & Jakob Ambrose), Cynthia - Ping Pong Lady (Lena Cruz), Jimmy Aboriginal drag queen (Leonard Mickelo) - the cast of Priscilla which opened at Capitol theatre Sydney.Photo: Christopher Pearce
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Meriden School year nine students have completed their last NAPLAN examination in Sydney. L-R are Vernica Mehta, Claire Spicer, Michelle Oh, Metilda You, and Hannah Ellis. Photo: Janie Barrett
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Author, Emily Maguire, at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Photo: Janie Barrett
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Modern Melbourne - Hamer Hall on Southbank. Photo: Scott McNaughton
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Amalie Gassman, a VIP Guest from New York City and is a long time supporter and ambassador of the I.AM.GIA brand.Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
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Year 5 students, Peppa Burnett, Amelia Otto and Ella Roche of Annandale North Primary School have just sat the NAPLAN literacy test. Hundreds of students across NSW are sitting online NAPLAN tests for the first time this year. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
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Dr David Penchone, he leads the NHS sustainable Development Unit. He is here to convince politicians and doctors that climate change is not just an environmental issue. Photo: Louise Kennerley
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Tanya Kovacevic and Finley Hoxley get upclose to a new Scienceworks exhibition called Beyond Perceptions, Seeing the Unseen. Photo: Jason South
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Development on Canterbury Road, Canterbury.Photo: James Brickwood
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Foster carers and identical twins Margaret and Ivy Sutton with Rachel, Tanya and Joshua. Rachel isn't the only child Margaret has taken into her home. She and her twin sister and next-door neighbour Ivy - also a former nurse - have dedicated the past 30 years to fostering about 12 severely disabled children. Ivy has also adopted two: Tanya and Joshua. Tanya - an Aboriginal girl born with cerebral palsy - had moved homes 30 times by age eight, when Ivy took her in.Photo: Wolter Peeters
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Evan Hughes, at the warehouse, with African art collected by his father that he is about to sell. Photo: Louie Douvis
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Ticket Office at Martin Place Train station. It is one of 30 across Sydneys rail network that will be leased for retail due to most people now using Opal cards.Photo: Louise Kennerley
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Steve Jeffares at Stomping Ground Brewing Co. New labelling system designed to distinguish between legitimate small time brewers and large brewing corporations who are adopting the 'craft beer' label. Photo: Jason South
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Following its listing on the ASX in late 2017, manufacturing specialist Titomic unveiled the world's largest 3D metal printer at its fully automated factory in Mount Waverly. Jeffrey Lang Chief Executive Officer | Chief Technology Officer, Titomic with the robot. Photo: Jason South
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Robyn Dinh adjusting her grand daughter's car seat. Only one of 22 children's car seats tested in NSW's Crashlab provided a child with maximum five-star protection against traumatic injuries to the head, neck and torso in a head-on collision at nearly 60km/h.Photo: Louise Kennerley
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Aclaimed Australian Indigenous soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham AO.Photo: Dean Sewell
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Sixteen year old Sandali Jayasinghe, walked in her first catwalk show at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia.Photo: Nic Walker
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Portrrait of Aboriginal Australian former boxer champion, Wally Carr, photographed in Waterloo. Carr is the grandfather of NRL player Josh Addo-Carr. Photo: James Brickwood
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Theresa McCabe works at Tennis Ranch on Victoria Rd Gladesville. She said the owner of the land on Victoria Road fielded "a couple of offers a week" to sell. And her customers, who have seen how quickly apartment blocks have sprung up in the City of Ryde, keep asking if they will be closing. "Hopefully not yet," she answers.Photo: Nick Moir
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Comedian Nazeem Hussain, who'll be performing his show No Pain No Hussain at the Sydney Comedy Festival. Photo: Louie Douvis
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Sydney Dance Company production AB Intra choreographed by Rafael Bonachela.Photo: Brook Mitchell