Photos of the week, November 12, 2020
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Even in the face of COVID-19, hundreds have descended on McDougall Street in recent days to take photos for social media, as the site becomes increasingly popular with Instagram influencers and visitors from the rest of Sydney.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Aged 101, Frank McGovern has survived being torpedoed twice, being held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in World War II and forced to work on the Burma-Siam railway. So, unsurprisingly, he is taking COVID-19 restrictions in his stride as one of the few veterans invited to attend the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Martin Place.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian provides a COVID-19 update at Parliament House, Sydney. Thanks to its excellent contact tracing and carefully targeted social distancing restrictions, NSW on Friday recorded another day of no locally acquired cases of COVID-19, extending its disease-free run to six days.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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David Ellis with the coffin of Padiashaikhet, Thebes, Egypt, 25th Dynasty at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney - Sydney's newest museum. The Chau Chak Wing Museum opens to the public next Wednesday, drawing on the collections of the Nicholson Museum – considered the largest collection of antiquities in the southern hemisphere – and the Macleay and University Art collections.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Australian cricketer Steve Smith arrives at Sydney International Airport. Tim Paine's success as captain has enabled Cricket Australia to put off discussing one of the thorniest issues in the game: whether Steve Smith should return to the top office.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Poppies are projected on the sails of the Opera House for Remembrance Day.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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WWII veteran Joan McLean was an Aircraftwoman who worked on the top secret Type X cyphering machine which decoded secret enemy messages.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Jack de Belin outside the Wollongong Courthouse. The young woman who alleged she was raped by footballers Jack De Belin and Callan Sinclair has endured a fresh day of intense questioning.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Sydney gallery owner Tim Olsen and his father, artist John Olsen, at Johns home and studio in Glenquarry, NSW. Tim Olsen has written a memoir about growing up in the shadow of his famous father. Credit:James Brickwood
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Passengers on the Inner West Light Rail. Despite the state government urging people to wear masks, whilst traveling on public transport, to help control the spread of Covid-19, many still aren't complying.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Actor Jack Charles. To mark NAIDOC Week, Uncle Jack has lent his voice to a guided meditation for the mental health non-profit Smiling Minds in partnership with the City of Port Phillip. It encourages listeners to show themselves some kindness and forgiveness.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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NSW Police on Highlands Avenue in Wahroonga where a crime scene has been established following a domestic violence shooting. One male aged 74 years old with facial injuries has been arrested. Another male in his 50's was shot in the neck and is being treated at Royal North Shore Hospital. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Siblings, Charlotte, 8, Louis, 5, and Amelia, 3, Smith looking at David Jones Christmas windows. In an unexpected year, the unveiling of the latest David Jones Christmas windows came as a brief return to normality for the Smith family.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Remembrance Day 2020, Sydney Martin Place Cenotaph. Remembrance Day, a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War.Credit:James Brickwood
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Aunty Pat Anderson and Lilia Tan, 8, in Canberra. Coinciding with NAIDOC, the Uluru Statement of the Heart's invitation to all Australians to walk with them for a better future has been translated into 64 languages ranging from French to Arabic, Armenian, Urdu, Rohinga, Hebrew and Mandarin.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The endangered Parma Wallabies, scientifically known as Macropus Parma, on the sanctuary owned by Peter Pigott at Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains. Peter Pigott is responsible for single-handedly saving the Parma wallaby once thought to be extinct until found on an island in New Zealand.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Sydney Girls High School students, Caitlin McManus-Barrett and Anne-Marie Schlesinger have just completed their HSC Physics exam. There has been a drop in female students studying this subject. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Army veteran, Sarah Watson, in Yass. Watson, who left the army with PTSD, is speaking out ahead of Remembrance Day on November 11. At 42, she represents the younger face of "veterans". Her biggest concern is that psychiatrists who treat veterans with mental health issues receive less payment for their work from the Department of Veterans' Affairs than if they treat a civilian who walks in off the street.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Police at the scene where a man was shot at Methuen Parade, Riverwood. Police say they know the identity of the alleged shooter, and have called on him to hand himself in.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Danielle Fumagalli and Bruno Martins moved to the Sunshine Coast from Sydney. Sydneysiders and Melburnians are moving to the Queensland Sunshine Coast in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic, with families prepared to spend two weeks in quarantine and buy or rent houses sight unseen.Credit:Paul Harris
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his visit to the synthetic biology lab at the CSIRO Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, in Canberra. Scott Morrison announced Australia's next Chief Scientist would be Dr Cathy Foley.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Sydney’s southern suburbs and northern beaches are among the city regions hardest hit by cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker. Owner of Cronulla Kitchen, Doug Opai says the cafe's been treading water since the start of the pandemic and things have been harder since were cut. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Surfers at Maroubra Beach. Temperatures are set to rise on the weekend, with 33 degrees predicted for Monday. Authorities are warning beach goers to keep a safe distance from each other.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Indigenous panel speakers Teela Reid, Josh Brown and David Liddiard at the Sydney Botanical Gardens during NAIDOC week. Indigenous rights activist Teela Reid said this year's theme recognised that "First Nations people had never ceded sovereignty to this country, to this land and to these waters." Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Year 12 students Andrhea Alabe and Clare Wilkes leave St Marys Senior High School for the last time after their final HSC exam. The principal of the state's largest year 12 cohort faced a mammoth task preparing for this year's HSC. Sally Smithard's 450-odd students at St Marys Senior High School in western Sydney would require 30 back-up exam halls in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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A helicopter helps install the lighting at the newly renovated Dawn Fraser Pool on Sydney Harbour in Balmain. Australia's oldest public swimming pool built in the 1880s.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Cara Cooper, with her children Olivia, 6 and Ella, 3, with some of the produce that her business, Your Food Collective, delivers to her customers' homes in Sydney. More Australians are looking to buy local produce since last summer's bushfire crisis and this year's COVID-19 pandemic, which highlighted the vulnerability of the food supply chain. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Family and friends gather during the inquest into the death of Jack Kokaua at the NSW State Coroners Court. Jack Kokaua died after being tasered three times in two minutes and restrained by six police in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown in 2018. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Daily life in Surry Hills. As covid case numbers drop in NSW, less people are wearing masks.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during the signing of the bilateral loan to Indonesia via video-conference with Indonesian Minister for Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, in his office at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison during the Remembrance Day service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Remembrance Day events went ahead this year, although on a much smaller scale than usual.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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World War II airforce veteran Jack Van Emden, 98, ahead of Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary of the end of WW2. Jack also wears his wife's medals, who also served in the war.Credit:James Brickwood
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Erin Allott from Berowra Heights and her two daughters Sadi, 6, and Lucy, 4. Under the new enrolment policy, out of area siblings are being turned away. Erin is worried her daughter will not be able to attend the same school as her sister.Credit:James Brickwood
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Artist Jake Nash, who has made an installation of the stars in the sky representing Australia as white man arrived, which lights up at night. Mr Nash said he hoped when people looked up at the artwork's stars – which illuminate an area under an overpass opposite the Convention Centre in Darling Harbour – they would reflect on where they are.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations Christian Porter and Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Christian Porter has rejected allegations aired by the ABC about an alleged incident with a woman at a Canberra bar.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Musical writers Yve Blake and Jye Bryant. Yve's musical Fangirls will be showing for a second time and Jye has written a musical for Riverside Theatres. When Yve Blake sat down to write her ode to teenage girls five years ago, never did she imagine the musical comedy about a 14-year-old obsessed with a pop star would have fans literally standing and screaming in the aisles.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Mrs Wei, a Chinese woman whose husband was killed while he was doing delivery rider work in Australia. Mr Chen died in late September after being allegedly struck by a bus in Sydney's inner east while working for Hungry Panda, a food delivery service, in one of what SafeWork data obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald suggests is a rising number of serious injuries among gig economy riders.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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A group of Democrats Abroad celebrate a Biden/Harris victory at the Landsdowne hotel, Sydney. “So I think this really was an anti-Trump victory, and not necessarily a Democratic victory. A lot of the same conservative ideals are still very strongly being held, but I think a lot of people were just fed up with Trump himself.”, said Polina Karachunsky, 26, an American who is part of the Democrats Abroad group which gathered.Credit:Jacky Ghossein
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November 9th, 2020 marks the 60th anniversary of the first performance at the Sydney Opera House. John Clough was at the first performance and returned to see a reenactment. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Glory Printing owner Pang Gunawan, has seen a significant decline in cutomers since coronvirus has forced International students from attending Australian university's.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Belvoir Theatre's artistic director Eamon Flack and ABC reporter Sally Sara, who has penned a debut play about a foreign correspondent who returns to Australia to find everything changed.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon, in his Parliament House office, in Canberra. Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon has quit the Shadow Cabinet amid an ongoing battle within the party over carbon emissions and the environment.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen