Photos of the week, December 31st, 2020
36 ImagesA week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers.
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Kate Goldrick and Holly Stephens swimming at Oak Park Beach near Cronulla on a sunny day over the long weekend, after a COVID-19 outbreak brought new restrictions to much of Greater Sydney.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian during COVID-19 update, including a new restriction of five people to homes in Greater Sydney over the New Year period. Credit:Jessica Hromas
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Riot police were called to Bronte beach on Christmas Day to separate hundreds of people - many donning Santa hats and festive attire - who were tightly packed on the grass, dancing and chanting on the beach.Credit:James Alcock
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Huts with picnic tables are fenced off as a precaution at Bronte on New Years Eve.Credit:Steven Saphore
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Sydney shoppers have steered clear of Boxing Day sales after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian discouraged shoppers from going to the sales in a massive blow to the city's retailers. Credit:Sam Mooy
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Motorcyclist Darryl Domoney at a North Narrabeen COVID-19 testing site. Credit:Sam Mooy
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Bronte Beach patrolled by police on Boxing Day after huge crowds gathered there on Christmas Day.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Clareville Beach was restricted to locals with the upper Northern Beaches in lockdown. Credit:Tanya Lake
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Rita Savanah was in hotel quarantine but released on Christmas Day. Rita was able to return home and celebrate Christmas with her family.Credit:Steven Siewert
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A new pop-up Covid testing clinic at Newport Beach. On Boxing Day the daily testing total dropped as the rush on tests ahead of Christmas petered out. Credit:Nick Moir
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Northern beaches locals had Manly to themselves with the area's lockdown preventing beachgoers from outside the area crossing the spit bridge.Credit:Rick Stevens
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Beau Chaseling from Byron Bay has completed his HSC in Chemistry and Physics in 2018 when he was 13. Now he is 15 and finsihed his whole HSC and got an ATAR of 90- plus.Credit:Danielle Smith
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Artist Emily Bullock in her home of more than 30 years is among more than 100 public housing tenants in Glebe who will be forced from their homes. The government wants to demolish them and rebuild a mix of public and private apartments.Credit:Peter Rae
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The New Years Eve Fireworks in Sydney Harbour as seen from Lady Macquarie's point. Unlike previous years there was just one fireworks display scheduled to bring in the new year. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher OP oversees the Solemn Mass service on Christmas Day at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. Congregation numbers were reduced due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.Credit:James Alcock
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Crown's opening in Sydney on Monday was a low key affair. In November, a probe by The NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) uncovered evidence of money-laundering at Crown Melbourne and examined the company's partnerships with "junket" tour operators linked to organised crime.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Margie Charlton dressed as Santa visited kids in a Newport unit block to deliver presents as they are unable to meet with extended family.Credit:Nick Moir
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Expats attend the orphans Christmas event at the Winery in Surry Hill, Sydney. Restrictions in the Norther Beaches were eased slightly to allow residents to celebrate Christmas with loved ones.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Vantage points for Sydney's New Years fireworks display were closed to the public to prevent the spread of coronavirus, including Milsons Point.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Narrabeen Lagoon Bridge at Ocean Street, the lockdown border between the southern and northern Northern Beaches bubbles. Credit:James Brickwood
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Bertin Huynh was a swim teacher at is currently at his parents place in Castle Hill. Job Seeker rate falls on Jan 1 and he will have to make do with less. Credit:Steven Siewert
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Michael Kasavetis of the Bill Crews Foundation delivers a meal to Marie Heckenberg on Christmas Day in Merrylands. Fundraising manager Michael Kasavetis said about 40 volunteers delivered meals and hampers to 50 people who had disabilities that prevented them leaving home.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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A pop up Coronavirus testing clinic in Mona Vale with the local real estate unwittingly declaring the area a hotspot.Credit:Nick Moir
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A closed Crows Nest Fire station in preparation for a deep clean after a firefighter tested positive for COVID-19.Credit:Jacky Ghossein
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant and NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing provide a daily coronavirus update.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Views within the deserted Green Zone at the Opera House on New Years Eve. All of the Sydney Harbour foreshore has been locked down to prevent the further spread of COVID-19.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Police patroling Clareville Beach in the north northern beaches lockdown zone over the long weekend.Credit:Tanya Lake
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Janet Mcfarlane and Greg Burns - Croydon is the latest suburb to be considered a coronavirus hotspot after six cases were reported.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Michael Costa from South Coast Mariculture, inspects the rows of mussels that look like vertical underwater vineyards at the mussel farm in Jervis Bay. The company breeds mussels near the Victorian border, grows them at Jervis Bay and is the first of its kind to be permitted to produce in a marine park.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Residents of the Northern Beaches exercise at Sandy Bay in Clontarf on Sydney's northern beaches during lockdown.Credit:Rick Stevens
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A busy Northbridge baths as residents west of the Northern Beaches can not access the lockdown northern beaches. Credit:Jacky Ghossein
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A pickup basketball game is played at Sydenham Green near Tempe on Sunday.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Social distancing at Bronte Beach on a hot and sunny Boxing Day amid a COVID-19 outbreak in northern Sydney.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Members of the public are seen exercising at Mrs Macquarie's Chair.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Sebastian Bohm, owner of Smuggler (TP52) yacht, who would have sailed in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Boxing Day if were not cancelled due to the Northern Beaches coronavirus cluster.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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A blissed out swimmer at Avalon Beach during lockdown, with 127 cases linked to the Avalon cluster.Credit:Sam Mooy