Photos of the week, September 24, 2020
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Parliament House speaks at the COVID-19 media brief. Credit:RENEE NOWYTARGER
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Nina Lacy with her 8 month old son Luca at Sydney airport, to see Luca’s grandparents for the first time. The family bought tickets earlier this week when the easing of border restrictions was announced, but it was by chance they got the first Qantas flight out.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Captain Matthew Hicks prepares for the first flight to Adelaide from Sydney, after South Australia lifted it's boarder to NSW.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Matt Moran's Chiswick restaurant at the Art Gallery of NSW is collaborating with Archibald finalists to create dishes for a set menu available while the Archies are on. From left, Tianli Zu, Chef Matt Moran, Jonathan Dalton, Jane Guthleben. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Veronica Hester, 17, Imogen Kuah, 18, and Natasha Abhayawickrama, 16, will be participating in a coronavirus friendly School Strike.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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People enjoying the warm day at Clovelly, as the NSW government launch it's Covid safe summer plan, encouraging all beachgoers to keep a beach towel length between you (1.5 metres) and anyone not from the same household.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Phoebe Saintilan and her boyfriend Michael Stacks have learned to lean into the restorative power of nature in a year of working from home and mass disruption.Credit:Louie Douvis
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A poster for Hybrid Exhibition, being pasted up, on the corner of Bridge Road and Ross Street Forest Lodge. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Australia Museum Technical Officer Patrick Smith and UNSW Senior Lecturer in Biogeography Malte Ebach have named a new Trilobite fossil 'Gravicalymene bakeri', after Tom Baker who played one of the Doctors in Doctor Who.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Rebecca Cartwright leaves ICAC after giving evidence of a hidden hard drive belonging to former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire.Credit:Nick Moir
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Taronga Zoo bilby enclouser. Bilbies are being released back into Sturt National Park. Mosman, September 23, 2020. Photo: Rhett Wyman/SMH .Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Student protest at the University of Sydney due to funding cuts. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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David Reeves found out that he had a $75,000 debt he didn't know he had when he was doing his tax return. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Electrical Trades Union state secretary Justin Page with Nick Bligh, an organiser.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts Paul Fletcher during his address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Cooper Forsyth and Swapnik Sanagavarapu at the University of Sydney, are both still doing online learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but would prefer to attend in person. Students frustrated with remote learning are unhappy about paying full fees while battling with expanding online tutorials as Sydney's universities work towards bringing more classes back to campus.Credit:Janie Barrett
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An independent safety audit has been conducted on pop up cycle-ways, like the Bridge St pop up cycle-way, in Glebe.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Stella Moris with her kids, Max, 18 months, and Gabriel, 3, in London. The mother of Julian Assange's children is seeking Australian citizenship for their sons and has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to promise the family will be safe in Australia if the WikiLeaks founder escapes being extradited to the United States.Credit:Liliana Zaharia
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian and new Nats leader Paul Toole announce jobs push for regional areas.Credit:Nick Moir
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Tony Perich and his son Mark Perich at their dairy farm in Bringelly. Credit:James Brickwood
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Bushfire smoke pollution over Sydney in December. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor during his address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Laura Mehew with her 9 month old daughter Tessa. Australia is facing a deficit of 280,000 babies by 2024 due to the recession and unrealistic pre-coronavirus forecasts of a birth surge that threatens to leave a permanent hole in the federal budget.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Gladys Berejiklian along with Rob Stokes, Dr Kerry Chant and Victor Dominello speak to media about how they plan to manage outdoor recreation over summer. Photo Nick Moir 21 sept 2020 .Credit:Nick Moir
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Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn at Commonwealth Bank Headquarters in Sydney.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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People exercise on a warm spring morning at South Steyne, Manly. Credit:Nick Moir
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Tutorial groups have increased from 25 students to 150 due to casuals cut at University of NSW, Kensington. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Artist Tania McMurtry at her sculpture 'Belfast' at Q station, Manly.Credit:Nick Moir
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Cathy Wearne, at Ross Jones pool, Coogee, usually swims at dawn in Coogee at the Ladies Baths, however opening times have changed meaning she and many women cannot use the women's only pool when they need it.Credit:Nick Moir
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Alex Stollznow with a sea urchin at Sydney Fish Market. Sea urchins are becoming more popular to eat.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Russell Daylight and his wife Tegan at their home in Katoomba. Russell runs a literacy course for first-year teaching students and has seen firsthand some of the literacy challenges they face. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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AMWU leader Steve Murphy outside the site of the demolished Clyde Petrochemical Plant, in Rosehill. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Playwright, screenwriter, poet, novelist and actress, Kate Mulvany, who has just won the Mona Brand Award for her extensive body of work.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Dan and Amelie Knox with their son Darcy and scout the dog at Pier One where they are having a staycation.Credit:Nick Moir
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Ross McCarty arriving at Downing Centre Courts for his sentencing of crimes he committed in the 1970's.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Rawah Arja, debut novelist and TikTok star. Credit:Nick Moir
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Alaedine Rifai's mother outside Downing Centre Local Courts.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Personal trainer, Jono Castano, helping train model, Laura Dundovic, in Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Soren and Ingri Madsen with their children, Philip and William, in their Sydney home. Their oldest son, Victor, is stranded overseas because the Australian Government is refusing him entry despite his visa being linked to his father's skilled migrant visa. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Barry Lee, 82, and his wife Rosmarie Lee, 80, look over one of their correspondence to the National Party at their home in Bonville. Barry is a former Chairman of the Orara Valley National Party Branch which was dissolved on the 31st of January this year.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Treasury Secretary Dr Steven Kennedy, in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Abandoned train tunnels and platforms 26-27 at St James Station, Sydney. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Ecologist, Mark Graham, from Belligen Nature Tours inside the Orara East State Forest, near Coffs Harbour.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Environmental scientist Dr Sally Townley at the waters edge of the Bonville Creek. Blueberry farms upstream have been illegally damming and have heavy water extraction that is unmetered. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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People face the wet Sunday weather in Darling Harbour.Credit:Edwina Pickles