The Age photos of the week, February 7, 2026

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Annabelle Cleeland and her five-year-old daughter Quinn (c) with Lou Webb (l) and her children Tom and Fred, 3, and George, 6, and Felicity Jeffrey and her children Jemima,6, Sebastien,4 and Claudio,1, stand in the burnt out Jeffrey property in Whiteheads Creek. All three families homes were decimated by the Longwood fire in early January and now the kids are looking to head back to school. A number of schools and kindergartens in the Seymour area are either closed, have had delayed starts impacted by the bushfires. Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Colin Arnold from Graze Away has been grazing his goats on the Mullum Mullum Creek in Ringwood reducing weeds; however, the council is now ending the popular initiative due to costs. The shorter grass has encouraged the native reeds to grow and frogs to return along with platypus, and rakali (Australian water rat). Credit:Arsineh Houspian

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Sculptor Peter Schipperheyn with his sculpture of Amy Sherwin in his Donvale studio. Greens party founder Bob Brown initiated fundraising to have two of them made and installed in Hobart’s Hadley’s Orient Hotel. Amy was a world-famous opera singer. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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Lover of music festivals, Erin Girvan.Credit:Arsineh Houspian

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Frankston High School students Archer Gibson and Ava Bryant learning to kayak during an outdoor education lesson in their high school swimming pool.Credit:Alex Coppel

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Like its Fitzroy flagship, the new Lune location features a glassed-in, temperature-controlled “cube” where Pastry chefs prepare croissants at Lune bakery in Lonsdale st Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Carlos Alcaraz wins the first set against Alexander Zverev during their semi-final at the Australian Open.Credit:Christopher Hopkins

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Crystal Wong and her daughter Arya, 10. Crystal toured 30 schools after a search for the right school for her daughter turned into a hobby. She now runs the Melbourne Schools Discussion Group on Facebook, which has 50k members who discuss pros and cons of schools.Credit:Alex Coppel

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DJ Cooper Smith checking out the set-up for his gig at the Frankston Waterfront Festival. Cooper was born with cerebral palsy. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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As a paramedic, Luke Baird has to live close to his ambulance station in Lorne, but a lack of rental properties meant he almost had to move away.Credit:Justin McManus

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Wilbur Tong, Docklands property owner leads class action against strata giant. Apartment owners from the city’s most prominent high rises are set to sue manager Bluestone OCM, claiming the firm abused its power to charge unlawful fees.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Angela Whiffen, president Friends of Skeleton Creek and VCAT fight over the last undeveloped parcel of land in the north of Point Cook, a flood prone ephemeral wetland.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Frankston High School students with outdoor and environment studies teacher Luke Rowe.Credit:Joe Armao

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2026 Australian Open, mixed doubles champions Olivia Gadecki and John Peers.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Kim Economides outside the Spanish consulate in Melbourne with a photo of his war veteran father, Michael Economides. Kim is the first Australian to have been granted Spanish citizenship, under a new Spanish government Democratic Memory Law.Credit:Alex Coppel

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CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour spoke at the Australian Open Inspiration Series event in Melbourne..Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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Historian Sean Reynolds will give an upcoming talk at the Public Record Office Victoria called Names in the Margins, about female criminals in Victorian history, some of whom were incarcerated in Old Melbourne Gaol.Credit:Justin McManus

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Elena Rybakina with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Aryna Sabalenka at the 2026 Australian Open, Women’s singles final. Credit:Eddie Jim

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Breda Bondoux was in a 17-year marriage with a man and had two kids but always felt like something wasn’t right. Last year, she ended the marriage and came out as gay.Credit:Justin McManus

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Year 11 VCE general maths student Eva White from Bacchus Marsh Grammar is the school’s top-performing general maths student this year.Credit:Jason South