Photos of the week - April 4, 2019
29 ImagesA week in photos from award winning Sydney Morning Herald / The Age / Financial Review photographers for the week ending April 4, 2019.
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Rosie and Peter Elias in their Sydney home. The couple claim their priest has stolen property from them in Lebanon after they trusted him to sell it on their behalf.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Foreign ISIS wives and children at the fence line of the Foreign section of Al Hawl camp in Al Hawl. Al Hawl camp is home to approximately 72,000 of which 9000 are foreigners including Australians. Al Hawl, Northern Syria. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Australian Islamic State member Mohammed Noor Masri poses for a portrait in Kurdish custody in Northern Syria.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Mother of Mohammed Noor Masri, the Australian man who joined ISIS holding a photo of her son taken in 2002.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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'Emma' is a parent of an Australian woman in Syrian refugee camp. Credit:Simon Schluter
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Severe storms tear up topsoil creating dust storms in the Riverina and western nsw. Credit:Nick Moir
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Vicki Van Hout poses for a portrait. Van Hout will be performing her one woman show called 'plenty serious TALK TALK' in Melbourne.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Dorothy Collins, Margaret Lane and Tess Sievers have been friends since they were in High School together in the 1940's. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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Butcher John Clarke is seen at the Flint Street Butchery in Forbes, NSW.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Senator Fraser Anning and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Penny Wong during debate in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Kate and Hugh Daly with their six year old son Will Daly. Will suffers from Cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Cytomegalovirus can cause hearing and vision loss and intellectual disability. Will's hearing has been severely affected and has a mental capacity to that of a three year old.Pictured here with his sisters Grace 8, twin sister Emmaline and Ellen, 10. Credit:James Brickwood
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Horse trainer Gary Portelli and his colt, Time to Reign at his stables in Warwick Farm ahead of the Golden Slipper.Credit:James Brickwood
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Keith Smith and Irene Smith.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Kim Bauer is seen with her 8-year-old son Jonathon. Kim was told by Centrelink that her son didn't exist, and was asked to repay $7000 in childcare rebate.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Peak hour ( 8-9 am ) at the Southern Cross Station in Melbourne.Credit:Eddie Jim
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(L-R) Chris Bowen, Tanya Plibersek, Bill Shorten, Jim Chalmers and Penny Wong pose for a photograph at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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People enjoying Bondi on an autumnal day.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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A work by photographer Evelina Fietisova. Fietisova shoots male, female and transgender models in a high fashion magazine style but without their gender being immediately apparent.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Canal Road Film Centre open day as part of the EDGE GreenWay.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Corey Thompson of NRL team Wests Tigers poses for a photo in Sydney.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Roller hockey player, Celine Park, practices at the netball courts in Centennial Parklands.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Members of the Astronomical Society of Victoria - Chris Rudge, Perry Vlahos, Rose Johnson, Jim Pollock and Dr Barry Clark - with one of the telescopes they oversee at the Melbourne Observatory. Credit:Chris Hopkins
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NSW Coogee Labor MP, Marjorie O'Neill, at Coogee Beach.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Catherine Lynch, president of Adoptee Rights Australia.Credit:Nick Moir
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Dogs are seen during Doggy Daycare at Blenheim Park in North Ryde.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Former Mayor of Forbes Graeme Miller at the Town Hall in Forbes, NSW.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Jess Cochran is a case study for a story about public hospitals increasingly using seclusion and restraint to "manage" mentally fragile patients. This breaches hospital guidelines, fails state benchmarks, and harms mental health patients further. As government embarks on a mental health Royal Commission have damning new data showing which are the worst hospitals, and that Victoria is the worst state. Credit:Jason South
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Michaelia Cash during a visit to a housing construction site in Googong, NSW.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Husband and wife duo Stephanie and Richard nova Milne who collaborate on art together as Novamilne. They see themselves as a "single artist" rather than as collaborators. Their work is mainly in video installation, and they've been commissioned to create a piece for The National - Art show. Credit:James Brickwood