Photos of the week, November 26, 2020
51 ImagesA week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review photographers.
Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH
Follow us on Instagram @sydneymorningherald
Like our photos? Selected images available from www.fairfaxphotos.com
1/51
The City of Sydney unveils its Christmas program for 2020. As part of its post-pandemic recovery, the City's Sydney Christmas program will create a festive atmosphere throughout the city centre and across inner Sydney villages.Credit:Steven Siewert
2/51
Saxon Mullins, whose rape trial triggered consent reform laws in NSW. Saxon says the recommendations fall short of effecting real change and NSW has failed to lead the way.Credit:Janie Barrett
3/51
Tim Fung, Co-Founder and Chief Executive officer of Airtasker at home with the car he races, a Honda Integra Type R. Australia's largest gig economy outfit Airtasker is extending its reach into New Zealand and Singapore, as the coronavirus pandemic forces more people to look for a way to supplement their income.Credit:Louie Douvis
4/51
Architect Angelo Candalepas has reinvented the traditional wedding cake mosque in Punchbowl. NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes released a list of beautiful Sydney architecture which includes the 2018 award-winning Punchbowl Mosque, described as architect Angelo Candalepas' "modern masterpiece" and features more than 100 domes. Credit:Steven Siewert
5/51
Charlotte Blomfield, left, has written a small comment - postcard from a school leaver, with her friend Grace Rodgers. Part of a feature written by Rob Bolton on the Class of 2020.Credit:Louie Douvis
6/51
A boy makes the time honoured yet mainly futile chase of seagulls at Little Manly last Sunday. Unsettled weather has been the story of Spring 2020 in Sydney.Credit:Renee Nowytarger
7/51
Early morning joggers and bleary eyed office workers witnessed the strange sight of three wise men being wheeled along as the Nativity Scene for Christmas is installed outside St Mary's Cathedral in the Sydney CBD.Credit:Peter Rae
8/51
Charter Halls CXO, Natalie Devlin, in the Charter Hall urban vertical farm. Charter Hall Group has partnered with start-up Urban Green Sydney to bring to life the Sydney CBD’s largest vertical urban farm at its 1 Shelley Street office tower.Credit:Louie Douvis
9/51
Niki Scevak, from Blackbird Ventures in their office at Surry Hills. Blackbird is a big investor in Canva which from a $3 million initial investment in 2013 is now worth $270 million. Credit:Louie Douvis
10/51
Dr Orazio Vittorio has won an award for his research in to children's cancer at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre in UNSW. Dr Vittorio was, on Thursday, awarded the career development fellowship at the Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research for his groundbreaking work in children's treatment with the Children's Cancer Institute.Credit:Janie Barrett
11/51
Beach goers gets some afternoon sun at Balmoral Beach, ahead of an expected hot weekend. Temperatures are expected into the high 40's out at Penrith in Sydney's west this Saturday.Credit:Steven Siewert
12/51
Zip Co founders Peter Gray and Larry Diamond. The success of the seven-year-old company is a product of the chemistry between Diamond and Gray. This is Zip’s special sauce. Unlike many tech founders, their relationship wasn’t developed in childhood, at school or in a university dorm. Instead it was facilitated by a recruiter. Diamond placed the ad for a business partner in late 2012.Credit:Louie Douvis
13/51
Frank Restuccia, Jeremy Cabral, and Fred Schebesta, from Finder.com, are new Young Rich Listers. Jeremy Cabral, from Sydney’s outer fringes in Campbelltown nagged his parents for an internet-enabled computer in the 1990s, then asked for the 1000-page XML Bible for Christmas, debuts on the Young Rich list for 2020 as co-founder of comparison service Finder.com.Credit:Louie Douvis
14/51
Australians stranded overseas because of COVID-19 arrive into Canberra airport on a repatriation flight from Singapore where they boarded a bus that took them to hotel quarantine. Many Australians are still stranded and paying exorbitant amounts of money along with consulate officials at breaking point as they are unable to help in most cases.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
15/51
Australian test batsman Steve Smith boards a bus as members of the Australian Cricket Team depart the Pullman Hotel in Homebush, after spending time in quarantine. The Australians play the first 50 over game of the summer in Sydney against India on Friday.Credit:Wolter Peeters
16/51
NSW Minister for Planning Rob Stokes, NSW Treasurer Dom Perrottet and Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne, taking a tour of the White Bay Power Station in Rozelle. A week after Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the White Bay Power Station should be demolished, his views on the heritage-listed building are softening, but there are some other Sydney architectural landmarks in his sights.Credit:Louie Douvis
17/51
A film production being shot in Blacktown called 'Way Out West' is being directed by eight female directors. Director Leah Purcell, centre, discusses the next shot with cinematographer Tania Lambert.Credit:Wolter Peeters
18/51
NRL Rugby League player Jack de Belin shares a kiss on the cheek outside the Wollongong Courthouse. The jury in the case have retired for a verdict possible early next week.Credit:Rhett Wyman
19/51
Ex-NRL Rugby League player Jarryd Hayne and his partner leaving the Newcastle Court House. Mr Hayne is facing trial on two charges of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent recklessly inflicting actual bodily harm, after he allegedly assaulted a 26-year-old woman with his hands and mouth in September 2018 and left her bleeding. He has pleaded not guilty.Credit:Rhett Wyman
20/51
Transport minister Andrew Constance, Howard Collins and Peter Khoury from NRMA, announcing upgrades to the M4 motorway. The first aspects of a $600 million technology upgrade to Sydney’s M4 motorway was switched on this week and involves a series of car sensors and ramp signals which will help improve traffic flow.Credit:Nick Moir
21/51
Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Brad Hazzard and and Victor Dominello during a COVID-19 update on Monday the 23rd. The NSW Premier says she deeply regrets failing to isolate while awaiting the results of a recent COVID-19 test and hopes people learn from her mistake.Credit:Nick Moir
22/51
Prevention and Response to Violence Abuse and Neglect Executive Director Jacqueline Connelly. Women over the age of 16 who present to selected emergency departments across NSW for any reason will be asked if they have ever been threatened or abused by a former or present partner under a $1.8 million program.Credit:Ben Rushton
23/51
Covid-19 announcement at Sydney Costume Workshop, with Dressmakers at the Sydney Costume Workshop work on costumes for the production of Hamilton during a Covid-19 and the Arts announcement. Significant announcements which included a timetable for the resumption of live shows were made.Credit:Steven Siewert
24/51
NRL Rugby League player Jack de Belin arrives at Wollongong court following a lunch break. Both Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair are facing five counts of aggravated sexual assault. Credit:Kate Geraghty
25/51
Children enjoy the Woodward Water Feature at Darling Harbour in Sydney's CBD. Opened in 1998, the heritage listed fountain is a spiral water feature in an unassuming saucer-shaped depression in the bare harbour-side concourse. It features a shape cleanly cut, as if by an auger, into the pavement with ten spiraling paths for water and two for people.Credit:James Alcock
26/51
Matt Anderson, Director of the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra. Curatorial decisions about how the War Memorial will respond to the Brereton report into war crimes in Afghanistan, Anderson explains, are to be left to “the subject matter experts”. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
27/51
An original Brett Whiteley artwork titled Henri's Armchair is auctioned by Menzies Head of Art, Justin Turner, selling for $5 million. The plague year 2020 has seen a boom in Australian art auction records. Apart from the Whiteley, which sets a new high for all local art, fresh benchmarks have been achieved for many well known artists. In February, Menzies sold Jeffrey Smart’s Conversation Piece (1998), for $981,818. In July, Fred Williams’s Hummock in Landscape sold for $2,822,727 at Deutscher Hackett, while Hans Heysen’s A Summer’s Day (c. 1907) went for $601,364 in the same auction.Credit:Wolter Peeters
28/51
Brian and Gene Sherman at their Centennial Park home. On Thursday, the Australian Museum's Crystal Hall will be named for the businessman in acknowledgment of a $1 million donation the Sherman family has made to help fund the Museum's most recent renovations, dubbed Project Discover.Credit:Louise Kennerley
29/51
St Vincents Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Schembri outside the Green Park Hotel in Darlinghurst. It has been purchased by St Vincent’s as part of a planned expansion of its mental health and community outreach services.Credit:Louise Kennerley
30/51
Investigators at a crime scene after a shooting in Clyde Street, South Granville, where a 17 year old male was shot. Anyone with information about the incident should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.Credit:Renee Nowytarger
31/51
Investigators check a bin after a knife attack at Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta. A teenage student was stabbed multiple times on Monday morning in what police described as a targeted attack.Credit:Peter Rae
32/51
Grandfather Alan Kinkade reuniting with grandson Tom, 2, as the first passengers arrive at Sydney Airport from Melbourne, after the Victorian border was opened to NSW. Credit:Steven Siewert
33/51
NSW Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres announces a major upgrade to Sydney's Luna Park. The historic park, which opened at Milsons Point on Sydney Harbour in 1935, will close for six months from the end of January in 2021 to allow the installation of six children's rides and a new "Big Dipper" roller-coaster.Credit:Rhett Wyman
34/51
Kerry Pope, Head of Library Services, with students in their Toongabbie Christian School Library. The library is "a really special place" adorned with colourful couches, a reading tent and blow-up canoe. "Students just say it's just like their lounge room. It’s a safe, comfortable place where they can relax and feel good," she said.Credit:Louise Kennerley
35/51
Performer, Penny Tration, who was hired to entertain arriving passengers, prepares for the first flights from Melbourne after the Victorian border was opened to NSW. Passengers on the first flights from Melbourne after four months of border closures landed at Sydney Airport to a party atmosphere, with Bondi lifeguard models, coffee, doughnuts and the sounds of Welcome Back, Kotter.Credit:Steven Siewert
36/51
A quiet drive through COVID-19 testing clinic in Rozelle on a warm sunny Saturday afternoon last week. NSW reported no new coronavirus cases in the community or in hotel quarantine on Thursday for the first time in nearly two months as the Premier expressed hope eased restrictions would lead to more people getting out and about in Sydney's CBD.Credit:Steven Siewert
37/51
Sarah Parker the Deputy Principal of Bobin Public School, at the building works being carried out to rebuild the school that was destroyed in the fires that hit Bobin on the 8th of November, 2019.Credit:Kate Geraghty
38/51
Tara Flannery who has been through various medical procedures and facial reconstruction due to a cancer diagnosis. White spots on her gums were diagnosed as a type of skin cancer. The cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, was close to her jawbone, the North Kellyville primary school teacher was told in March 2018, and would likely spread if left much longer.Credit:James Alcock
39/51
Students at Thornleigh West Public School's before care program. The outside of school hours care sector is struggling with a drop of enrolments during the pandemic as people working from home decide they don't need to use the care. A NSW report has identified one in 10 services in the state have either closed or are on the brink of closing. Credit:Janie Barrett
40/51
Jett Heffernan, 10, heads the ball into the net under the watchful eye of ball designer Andy Head and son Boston. His invention is the 'Heading Pro'. A lightweight, cushioned football designed specifically for learning how to header safely. The ball is 40 per cent lighter than a regular football but stays true to how a real one moves and can reduce head acceleration by almost 50 per cent.Credit:James Alcock
41/51
Friends Steph Bercich, D'arcy McLeod and Neha Lokesh enjoy a picnic with some wine in Prince Alfred Park in South Sydney. Half bottles have returned to favour with 'park appeal' wines also on the rise.Credit:Edwina Pickles
42/51
Rachael Lee has had melanomas removed and is advocating covering up entirely while at the beach. The 33-year-old mother-of-two and fiancee of former NRL player Braith Anasta admits she only wore sunscreen on her face growing up, while lathering the rest of her body in tanning oils with little SPF protection. But she says she never thought she was at risk of getting skin cancer, and has routinely had her skin checked for the past decade.Credit:Janie Barrett
43/51
Carolyn Thompson, Rachel Hine, Victoria Baird, Anna Humberstone, Penny Maguire and Kazu Murai. Choirs have been limited to 5 members during COVID restrictions. After a review on Thursday by NSW Health, that still only five people can gather together to sing indoors while the number of choir singers permitted outside has been increased from five to 30. They must all face the front and be 1.5 metres apart.Credit:Nick Moir
44/51
Soccer clubs run skills acquisition programs for talented young players but it's pretty cut-throat, with parents forking out $1500 and being asked to pay $500 on the spot to secure a place. To add to the stress, should a better player come along, your child can be dropped!Credit:Steven Siewert
45/51
The new Chair of the Powerhouse Museum, Peter Collins, at his home in Werrington. He is brimming with ideas for acquisitions and loans. Charles Kingsford Smith's original hangar sits in a pile at Bankstown Airport – if it was reassembled at Parramatta it could house a replica of the Lady Southern Cross, the plane that took the aviator to his watery grave.Credit:James Brickwood
46/51
Balmain Resident Raymond O'Keefe outside the White Bay Power Station in Balmain. Raymond said he wanted the power station to be saved and not be turned into "another monstrosity" like the Crown tower at Barangaroo. "Leave our history alone". NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes has said he hopes the White Bay power station will be the centrepiece of plans to revive the Bays Precinct. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
47/51
Hospitality gurus Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham, talk about the problem of self-entitlement among young hospitality workers on their latest podcast episode, arguing the industry has 'overcorrected' from the bad old days when abusive bosses yelled at people in kitchens. Now it is full of "whining" youngsters who demand "work life balance".Credit:Steven Siewert
48/51
Christine is a vision-impaired Year 10 student at Seven Hills High School. Christine with her team has created a concept using AI, VR headsets and sensors gloves to help people with visual impairments play online computer games with their friends. Credit:Rhett Wyman
49/51
'Sheree' who is a victim of domestic violence photographed in Western Sydney. The past five months have been busy for Sheree. She's moved into a new home in western Sydney, started a herb garden, rescued several animals, including two guinea pigs, a lizard and a dog, and set up a craft room. But before that, she was living out of her car having fled domestic violence.Credit:Janie Barrett
50/51
TAFE apprentice William Shepherd. Practical training in parts of some TAFE studies are being removed as the national authority that sets skills training standards has backed away from a plan to make on-the-job training a mandatory part of completing a trade qualification.Credit:Nick Moir
51/51
Portrait of Ben Fordham, Australian journalist and radio host with 2GB. In July this year, the 43-year-old journalist and TV personality moved from 2GB's Drive program, where he had been since 2011, to take over from Alan Jones on the station's much-coveted breakfast shift. Credit:James Brickwood