Photos of the week, July 9, 2020
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Artist Tilly Lees with her work which invited people to tell their secrets anonymously. Image is double exposure made in-camera.Credit:Nick Moir
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is cracking down on businesses that flout COVID-19 rules despite the risk of being fined up to $55,000. Along Newtown's King St, some businesses have gone to great lengths to follow social distancing and hygiene guidelines. Exotik Latin Restaurant has placed a reserved sign and hand sanitiser on every second table to space out groups who are dining in. Credit:Steven Siewert
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Cyclist Fiona Campbell's dog watches on with concern during a COVID-19 test at the drive-through clinic in Summer Hill. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Grey nomads Dorelle 'Dee' and Ian Dunn from Albion Park Rail in NSW are stuck in Ballina in far northern NSW waiting for the Queensland border to open so they can continue their annual migration north to escape the chill of the southern winter.Credit:Elise Derwin
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Feral horses damaging the waterways along the Eucumbene River north of Kiandra. 'It's a bloody invasion' say some. Today there are more horses than ever in Australia's alpine regions. According to surveys relied upon by both state governments and endorsed by the CSIRO, numbers in the Australian Alps leapt from 9187 in 2014 to 25,318 in 2019 and are now growing at a rate of 23 per cent a year.Credit:Nick Moir
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Australian author Jackie French lives in the Araluen Valley, which was absolutely decimated by bushfire. She's now written a children's book called Diary of a Wombat about a burnt wombat who she helped bring back to life during the fires.Credit:James Brickwood
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Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Alan Tudge and Prime Minister Scott Morrison address the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Minister for Customer Serivce Victor Dominello and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant update the media on the NSW governments coronavirus response at NSW Parliament.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes and Minister for Transport and Roads Andrew Constance inspecting the Victoria Cross Metro station cavern in North Sydney. North Sydney’s tallest building has been approved by the NSW government, with a 42-storey commercial office block to tower over the new Victoria Cross Metro Station within four years.Credit:Peter Braig
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Olivier Abrahamson Lokolomba is disputing facts in Sun Herald story about the couple trapped in the Congo. He says it's actually his and his father's land and NGO and the Bagala couple are using it illegally. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Taronga Zoo's, Ekundu, a critically endangered Eastern Bongo, undergoing a full health check. As he weighs in at approximately 315kg with 1m long lyre-shaped horns, the Taronga wildlife hospital will be going mobile and conducting the health check in his exhibit. Credit:Peter Rae
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Jayden Fleischer is a fourth year carpentry apprentice who lost jobs during COVID lockdown but has found another one to continue his apprenticeship. A NSW Chamber of Commerce has released a report on major skills shortages and loss of thousands of apprentices.Credit:Peter Rae
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NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro cooks lunch for our reporter at his Sydney apartment in Rushcutters Bay. "When I was younger, my mum taught me how to cook. She is a really good cook, and I was always asking her for recipes and I have always loved cooking," Barilaro says, although he rarely has the time anymore.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Chaco Ramen's Keita Abe managed to turn his ramen - originally a weekday lunch special at his yakitori bar - into a dedicated restaurant. And during lock down took it one step further, offering take-home meal kits, and a delivery service, delivering across Sydney. On an extremely busy day, Chaco Ramen might do 150 bowls of soup noodles. But the almost-ready meals mean he can sell as many as he can make. He said it was this service that saved his business. Credit:Christopher Pearce
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Early morning Surf ski puddlers, Sydney Harbour Surf Club, Rose Bay. "It’s given me a community," he said. "Arriving back here when we did before the pandemic, the kids went straight into school and almost straight into lockdown again ... but this means I just have this connection [with a group]."Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Myla Cook, 1, plays on equipment in Clarke Reserve in Vaucluse. The park was funded using grant money given to Waverley CounciCredit:Janie Barrett
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Tourists, Oly Akra, Jennifer Maaroudji and Akra Gaetan van Meer, in Bronte Gully, an area earmarked for ecological upgrading, by the NSW Government, in Sydney. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Residents of Balmain Rozelle areas of Sydney question at a drive through Covid 19 testing station at the University of Tasmania Campus at Rozelle. Credit:Peter Rae
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COVID-19 safety measures seen during polling day of the Eden-Monaro by-election at the Queanbeyan East Public School voting booth.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet and Minister for the Arts Don Harwin after the announcement that the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo will not close but instead operate across two sites, including one in western Sydney.Credit:Jacky Ghossein
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Labor MPs Pat Conroy, Andrew Giles and Matt Keogh during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Sydney punk veterans the Hard-Ons played to an audience of 50 politely seated, socially-distanced diners at Chippendale's The Lansdowne. For a band that's performed mostly to slamdancing teens and ageing pogo-ers across its near 40-year history, it was an amusing prospect. "We haven't played to a seated crowd since the early '80s and that was when we were a high school band playing to our parents' friends," bass player Ray Ahn laughs. "But it doesn't matter, we just want to play."Credit:Janie Barrett
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese and Labor endorsed candidate for Eden-Monaro Kristy McBain at Merimbula Public School on the day of the Eden/Monaro byelection.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Mathew Chan with his niece Evelyn Lee, who will be taking over Peacock Gardens restaurant from her uncle, in Crows Nest, Sydney. After serving more than one million spring rolls over 45 years, restaurateur Mathew Chan has announced his retirement from Crows Nest institution Peacock Gardens. Founded in 1975, Peacock Gardens was the epicentre of long media lunches through the '80s and '90s when most major network offices were based north of the bridge. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Michael Mazengarb at his home in the inner west home. Houses in Australia are built to be cold despite our mild climate and the health problems this can cause. Michael Mazengarb and his partner wear jumpers, jackets, gloves and blankets to stay warm in their Marrickville home. More people die from cold temperatures in Sydney than Sweden, which housing researchers blame on poor building standards and energy poverty.Credit:Peter Rae
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Labor candidate Kristy McBain with her family after thanking supporters. They announced the vote count was too close to call on the night of the election.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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During COVID-19 Eastwood was a ghost town, now as COVID-19 restriction are eased things are picking up.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Members of the indiginous community give a welcome to country and embrace loved ones who have lost family members as protesters gather at The Domain in Sydney for a Black Lives Matter rally in response to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and condemn Police violenceCredit:James Alcock
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Growth in toy sales during the coronavirus lockdown eclipsed growth last Christmas. Among the most popular items during the lockdown period were the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Lego set, the Technic Land Rover Defender and Barbie Dreamhouse. Cattleya U from Annandale toy store Terrific Scientific.Credit:Jacky Ghossein
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Liberal candidate for Eden-Monaro Dr Fiona Kotvojs during the election night function on polling day of the Eden-Monaro by-election at the Royal Hotel in Queanbeyan.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Annalise McKewen has been offered a place at the University of Western Sydney based on her Year 11 results. High school students most disadvantaged by the coronavirus pandemic and summer bushfires will be among those offered an early place at university even if they don't get enough marks. The University of NSW this week opened a new program of conditional offers to year 11 and 12 students from low socio-economic backgrounds. The students will be assessed on school reports, samples of their work and a personal statement.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Cinema goers enjoy a movie at The Palace Cinema in Norton Street, Leichhardt, as it opens again on the first day of NSW school holidays. Movie fans have returned with gusto to socially-distanced theatres, with many cinemas experiencing sold-out sessions in their first weekend since reopening almost four months after they were ordered shut due to coronavirus.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Ali Khorami arrives at the Downing Centre Courts, Sydney, accused of sexual assault. Prosecutors are applying to have him detained before he's sentenced.Credit:Peter Rae
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After draining the fountain, scaffolders start covering the The Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park north with scaffolding to carry out major maintenance on Sydney's most famous fountain.Credit:Peter Rae