Photos of the week, September 17, 2020
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Eileen Kramer. a 105-year-old modern dance artist, in her room at the Luworth House Aged Care Facility in Elizabeth Bay. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the number of people aged 85 years and over is projected to double by 2042. This week at the Royal Commission into Aged Care former Prime Minister Paul Keating talked about the pressing need for long-term reforms to the aged care sector.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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The lively roof top bar of the Glenmore in the Rocks. The government is targeting The Rocks and Darling Harbour first in trying to loosen up outdoor hospitality regulations. NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello said venues should be able to set up al fresco service within days of applying under a self-assessment regime, "All the major cosmopolitan cities around the world have these rooftop bars, we need more of that in Sydney." Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian said this week that the public should prepare for end-of-year celebrations to be held under the existing social distancing restrictions. She advised not to plan for more than 20 people at Christmas and New Year's Eve parties, while Sydney’s major stadiums win approval to host up to 40,000 spectators.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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People observe COVID-19 measures at the new immersive Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Hall of Industries in Moore Park. Sydney is hosting the Australian premiere of a major international art exhibition after poaching the event from Melbourne when the city was forced into strict lockdown following its second wave of COVID-19. Van Gogh Alive is a multi-sensory, interactive exhibition that has already shown in 50 cities worldwide.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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The Class of 2020 has had a difficult year but they are not the first to do their HSC in turbulent times; their predecessors faced wars, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Fatma Hafda, who is now a public school teacher, completed her HSC in the stressful period after the September 11th terrorist attacks in the USA in 2001. She said, as a Muslim, she experienced racism in Sydney during this time. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Actor Meyne Wyatt, winner of the Packer's Prize in the Archibald Prize for his self portrait, at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Packing Room Prize is selected by gallery staff who receive, unpack and hang entries. Wyatt was locked down in Sydney, at a loose end with filming suspended, when he started to sketch his face after not having painted formally in 10 years. It's the first time an Indigenous artist has won any of the prizes on offer in the Archibald Prize in its 99-year history. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Year 12 students Audrey Ormella and Christian Chorbadjian at Dulwich Hill High School, a visual arts high school in the inner west, have been leading mental health initiatives at the school, wearing wigs and posting on social media about RUOK Day. Sydney and regional NSW are dealing with a spate of youth suicides this year. There has been a cluster of nine suicides among year 11 and 12 students in north shore public and private schools since January, while Kiama on the south coast has been rocked by five suicides in the past five weeks, some of them teens.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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John Barilaro followed by Paul Toole after the National Party meeting. The Nationals leader has promised he will honour his agreement with Premier Gladys Berejiklian and will not jeopardise the Coalition before the next state election.Credit:Nick Moir
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Question time on Wednesday the day after Police Minister David Elliott launched several scathing attacks against the Nationals' leader John Barilaro. The ministers repaired their fractured relationship with Barilaro sharing a glass of Scotch with Elliott in the police minister's office immediately following question time.Credit:Janie Barrett
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On Wednesday Premier Gladys Berejiklian said NSW will accept an extra 500 international travellers per week on the condition that other states and territories double their own numbers to share the load.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Flowers on the front lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Sam Ford, owner of Argyle Bar on Argyle Place, opened her doors during the height of the city's lockdown measures in April. She was able to sell takeaway cocktails under special measures at the time but had to temporarily close after the four-square-metre rule made operating unviable. A multi-agency taskforce has been set up with the goal of relaxing outdoor drinking and dining regulations to ease pressure on the hospitality industry and help avoid COVID-19 clusters originating from inside venues.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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A cockatoo foraging amongst flowers in Bonnet Bay on Thursday's warm spring day that saw temperatures exceed 30 degrees before the classic southerly buster brought a ten degree drop. Credit:Nick Moir
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Surfers at Tamarama beach at sunrise this week. Sydney hits 30 degrees on Thursday before a cold front swept through chilling the weekend.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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While many students struggle with writing, boys are twice as likely as girls to be near the bottom of the class. Balgowlah Boys High is bucking that trend; for the past four years its students have finished near the top of the state in HSC English. Students from Balgowlah Boys High School students with staff at South Curl Curl. Credit:Nick Moir
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People enjoy the warmer than usual Sydney spring weather.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian, with Treasurer Dominic Perrottet providing an update on COVID-19 and the economy. Along with Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes, the treasurer said people needed to begin returning to their workplaces in order to revitalise economic activity.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt has been at the centre of the Australian strategy to deal with Covid-19 pandemic. To help switch off and to stay healthy, both mentally and physically, he runs around 5 to 6 kms each morning near his home on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.Credit:Josh Robenstone
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The City of Sydney has warned that land the state government has earmarked for a new park at a motorway junction for the WestConnex is polluted and unsuitable as a recreation spot. The promised parkland – one of two to be created at the St Peters interchange – is due to be opened by 2024, after the completion of the final state of the $16.8 billion WestConnex project.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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A drawn out saga over replacing flammable cladding has soured relations between owners of a southern Sydney apartment building and imposed a large financial burden on them. Resident Rave Mawjee in front of the Quattro building in Gymea is concerned about the replacement cost of the flammable cladding on the building. He says some of his neighbours were pensioners or had been furloughed due to the coronavirus-induced recession and would struggle to afford it.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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People enjoy the warmer than usual spring weather and the empty spaces at the Sydney Opera House.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Martin Luai, who was released from prison in April, with his son Penrith Panthers player Jarome Luai at the front of their Dharruk home. Martin, a father of four, broke his hand on the rocks at Shelly Beach pulling a drowning Lafaele to safety. The injury he sustained prevented him from returning to work as a storeman at a milk factory in Lidcombe, meaning the family had to live off the Centrelink allowance Martin's wife, Raumako, was receiving. He turned to crime and ended up serving a prison sentence missing Jarome's NRL debut and the birth of his first grandchild, Jarome's son Israel.Credit:Janie Barrett
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This week auditions took place for musical Pippin, which is set to become the first major stage production to return to an Australian stage since COVID-19 restrictions drew the curtains on live performance in March. Only Sydney performers were invited to audition for the handful of roles available in Pippin which is set to open in November at the Sydney Lyric Theatre.Credit:Nick Moir
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Like most boys born in 1942, former journalist, media executive and businessman Trevor Kennedy collected stamps, matchbox lids and other things. That boyish hobby became a passion for Australian history and resulted in a collection of 5000 treasures dating back to the First Fleet, valued at between $15 to $18 million, that have this week been acquired by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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New research has found that large suburban houses and McMansions may be harmful to children's health. Emily Smith shares her five-bedroom home on Sydney's lower north shore with her husband Trent, their two children Annabel and Ella as well as her brother- and sister-in-law, their nine-month-old baby and an au pair. Ms Smith's children share a bedroom and bathroom, which she said kept them "very close" and focused on sharing. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Health workers wearing full PPE wait for people to arrive for testing at a drive through coronavirus COVID-19 testing site in Prestons, NSW. There have been 21 cases attached to a virus cluster across Liverpool and Concord hospital emergency departments, after a health professional worked at both locations while infectious. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Health workers wait for people to arrive for testing at the St Vincent's COVID-19 screening Bondi clinic at Bondi Beach.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Police investigate the scene of a fatal assault at Swanson St, Erskineville. An alleged dispute between neighbours turned violent after a man died and another was charged with his murder outside a unit block in Sydney's inner west on Sunday night.Credit:Nick Moir
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Moses Obied outside the Supreme Court this week. The Obeid family was working overtime on a secret deal to have associates purchase two neighbouring properties in the Bylong Valley before it was made public that the area had been selected for the creation of a coalmining tenement, a trial has heard.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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NSW Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott during a briefing on the Operation Clampdown in relation to 12 shootings in the South West Metropolitan Region. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Health workers wearing full PPE wait for people to arrive for testing at a drive through COVID-19 testing site in Prestons, NSW. Hundreds of coronavirus deaths in Australia's first wave of the pandemic may have been attributed to strokes, diabetes, pneumonia, flu and dementia due to limited testing. Modelling by the Actuaries Institute shows there were more than 500 unexpected deaths in March and April.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Ellie Beer would have been in the 400m sprint at the Tokyo Olympics and is instead, now at her home in Palm Beach, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, about to sit her HSC. At 17, Beer is one of Australia’s best 400-metre runners and became the youngest woman to represent Australia at a world championships last year. She’s also studying for her final high school exams at Marymount College on the Gold Coast.Credit:Dan Peled
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Australian Turf Club's launch of the Everest Carnival at iconic Sydney location, The Tallawoladah Lawn, in front of the MCA. Ex race horse Mojo with models, Lucinda Circhton and Romy Klerks.Credit:Jessica Hromas
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Hunter's Hill Council is working with the Parramatta River Catchment Group and Sydney Water regarding the suitability, feasibility and desirability of Bedlam Bay as swimming site. The inquiry follows the release of a concept design for another swimming area to the south of the river, at Bayview Park in Concord, as part of an initiative being propelled by the City of Canada Bay.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Data shows that city buyers are snapping up holiday homes with the shift to working from home and closed borders preventing overseas trips. The lack of international travel has driven Julia Maguire and Andrew Spira to buy a holiday home in Shoal Bay, Port Stephens, about 2½ hours north of Sydney.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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The parents of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja's and his brother Arsalan Khawaja outside Downing Centre Local Court. Arsalan was arrested in December for perverting the course of justice and dishonesty influencing a public official. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Students and university staff protest the governments proposed fee hikes and the university's staff cuts at the University of Sydney. Many of the chants and banners were directed at Sydney University vice-chancellor Michael Spence who announced he had taken a 20 per cent pay cut to his $1.5 million salary.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Trevor Kennedy sitting in the same chair occupied by the Duchess of York when she presided over the federation of Australia at the inaugural sitting of Federal Parliament in 1901 in the Melbourne Exhibition building. It is part of his private collection of Australian artefacts which has been sold to the National Museum of Australia. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Daphne Lin and Tia Dolan who would prefer to travel abroad rather than within Australia. The 24-year-olds are among a large proportion of young Australians reluctant to splurge on domestic holidays. "I'd like to see more of Australia," Ms Dolan said. "But realistically it's expensive. It's about $150 a day to do anything relaxing. I'm just saving up for when [international] borders open.".Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Victor Churchill charcutier Cyprien Picard with one of his Pate en Croute creations. Pate en Croute is French classic and it's becoming increasingly popular in Australia. Pâté en croute is a brick-shaped pie of various meats inside a pastry crust, often elaborately decorated. It's usually served in slices, cold, to reveal the pretty layers within.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Shuyu Zhou's mother outside Darlinghurst Courthouse. Shuyu Zhou was murdered by her former lover Zixi "Jessie" Wang. After falling from the balcony of her former girlfriend's apartment in Zetland last year, she was stabbed 58 times by her former lover.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Ross McCarty arriving at Downing Centre Courts for the sentencing of crimes he committed in the 1970s. The one-time Sydney floor trader with a gambling problem who would drink with clients over lunch and then rob banks in the afternoon has been jailed for his crimes, more than 40 years later. Ross McCarty was earning a salary equivalent to $180,000 in his late 20s when he robbed eight banks between May 1977 and March 1978, using the money to pay off illegal gambling debts. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Co-founder of Galileo Ventures, James Alexander at the Sydney Observatory's south dome telescope. Galileo Ventures launched their 10 million dollar fund to invest in startups. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Matt Vincent, Klara Egan and Adele Brett use the rope swing on the Nepean River at Tench Reserve, Jamisontown, on a warm spring day.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Jo Cooper and her pet schnauzer Angus in her Darlinghurst apartment. For five years, musician Jo Cooper has battled the strata committee of her apartment block, the Horizon, which stands tall among the terraces of inner-city Darlinghurst, to keep her beloved 14-year-old schnauzer Angus, despite the building's bylaws banning pets. Last month, Cooper's petition to Parliament was picked up by Animal Justice Party MLC Emma Hurst and transformed into a surprise late-night amendment to a government bill on strata laws.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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AOC President John Coates with volunteers at the Lighting of the Cauldron, celebrating the 20 Year Anniversary of the opening of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cathy Freeman Park, Sydney Olympic Park.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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David Clark and Fiona Lyda in their new store, Spence & Lyda in Waterloo, Sydney. When the lease on her Surry Hills homewares emporium expired earlier this year, Fiona Lyda considered shutting shop for good. Sure, Spence & Lyda was surviving online, but the décor doyenne’s whole business model was based on personal interface: touch was intrinsic to her brand’s DNA.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Melissa Keller-Tuberg, is a survivor of anorexia, she was studying in Melbourne until Covid-19 hit, when her eating disorder started to flare up. When she returned home to Canberra, she covered her wardrobe mirror with paper and decorated it with doodles and positive messages to help ward off the eating disorder thoughts.Credit:Sean Davey