The Age photos of the week, August 30, 2025

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Artist Charlie Nanos at his Cranbourne South studio.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Van life: Third generation American Doughnut Kitchen owner Belinda Donaghey.Credit:Alex Coppel

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Benn Lockyer has accepted social anxiety may always be a part of his life since losing his son, but he is determined to provide a full life for his children.Credit:Joe Armao

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Victorian laws didn’t get in the way of Deb Tranter’s wish to be buried with her three beloved late dogs. They’re now waiting for her in her family plot.Credit:Eddie Jim

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First Peoples Assembly co-chair Rueben Berg confirmed there is now in-principle agreement on Australia’s first treaty with its traditional owners.Credit:Justin McManus

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School captains Paul Sulamain and Hiyab Asmelash in the chapel of St Mary’s Coptic Orthodox College, Coolaroo. Both have been at the college since early primary years.Credit:Jason South

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Kayura Thimmaraju, 15, Hayden Beckwith, 15, Herry Patel, 15, Abbey Cabban, 16, and Paras Singh, 15.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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‘I will pay my debts’: A delighted Simon Mesa Soto has won the $140,000 Bright Horizons prize at MIFF.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Sally Andreatta is constantly in the car driving her daughters Olivia, 17, and Lilly, 13, to netball engagements. She is happy to take the time rather than have them use Uber for Teens.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Kelly Flanagan, who recently left the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Kelly Flanagan has sobered up after a drug addiction led to a crime which put her in jail.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Margaret Krajnc, in character as Magdalena Whirliebird, is an advocate for an adventurous spirit no matter what your stage of life.Credit:Justin McManus

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Peter Cook, president of Queenscliffe Climate Action Now, on the eroding Narrows dog beach. Cook is concerned his council is moving to scrap its Climate Action Response Plan.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Fred and Alex Grimwade at Cooks’ Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens. Fred is a descendant of Russell Grimwade who donated the cottage.Credit:Joe Armao

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Benji Tamir, general manager of Moving Story Entertainment, which owns Classic Cinemas Elsternwick. Tamir says cinemas are doing more to entice people back from the lure of streaming at home.Credit:Alex Coppel

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Friends of Anglesea River co-founder Keith Shipton. Recently there have been a been a large number of fish deaths and locals are worried.Credit:Justin McManus

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Jenny Tate and her husband bought an apartment in Safety Beach after falling in love with the area during COVID-19 lockdowns.Credit:Simon Schluter

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A large crowd of pro-Palestinians gather march through Melbourne.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Aboriginal elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Camp Sovereignty.Credit:Justin McManus

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Brighton Grammar School headmaster Ross Featherston with some of the students who have signed up to do dance.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Victorian police searching the Porepunkah property where two officers were shot dead this week.Credit:Joe Armao

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Mark Walker at his new independent cinema in Collingwood, Eclipse.Credit:Justin McManus

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Sisters Sloka, 13, and Lasya Kalyanam, 16, with their tutor Sophia Ao, who helped them study ahead of exams.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Victoria Walks chief executive Sarah Pilgrim hopes local councils embrace the opportunity to introduce 30km/h zones.Credit:Simon Schluter

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From left to right, top to bottom: Hana Mathew, Hana Mathew, Xavier Huang, Principal Dani Angelico, Lucia Williams, Marey Mathew and Jai Russell at Mount Alexander College, where students sit on teacher selection panels and help write policies.Credit:Joe Armao

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Flinders Street Station illuminated in blue light as a tribute to the police officers killed in Porepunkah.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Iran ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi leaving his country’s embassy, as ordered.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

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Melbourne band Surprise Chef: (left to right) Carl Lindeberg, Andrew Congues, Jethro Curtin and Lachlan Stuckey.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Erin Patterson arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne for a plea hearing ahead of her sentencing.Credit:Joe Armao

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Dr Adrian Maldonado is in Melbourne for the opening of Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Melton airfield operator Evan Reeve fears he will have to close his business once the towers are built.Credit:Justin McManus