The Age photos of the week, July 11, 2026

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New ballet mistress Nicole Savage (rear) conducted auditions for Moulin Rouge this week in Melbourne.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Pedestrians navigate the heavy fog blanketing the mornings this week in Melbourne.Credit:Joe Armao

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Uncle Grant Rigney says the government has not given a single water licence in the Murray-Darling Basin system to First Nations communities.Credit:Jason South

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Epping Football Netball Club president Luke De Vincentis (left) with Matthew Fitzgerald, brother of Nathan Fitzgerald who died as a result of head injuries sustained during a match last weekend. Matthew is wearing his brother's jumper whose number the club says will be retired in honour of Nathan.Credit:Jason South

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Empty platforms at Southern Cross Station after V/Line trains were cancelled due to the Telstra outages this week.Credit:Jason South

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Jack Gibson-Burrell is seen on the eastern pylon of the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne after allegedly vandalising it. Police were called to the scene at 3am on Tuesday following reports he had climbed the pylon, allegedly trespassing on one of the 140-metre-high pillars.Credit:Joe Armao

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Jack Gibson-Burrell surrenders to police after he descended from the Bolte Bridge.Credit:Joe Armao

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Australian soccer fans watch the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match between Australia and Egypt at Federation Square in Melbourne.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Harvey Zielinski has written and directed a movie that screens at MIFF, and also plays the lead role of Jake – a trans man who used to be Sarah – as well as his twin brother, Sam.Credit:Justin McManus

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Comedian and radio host Dave Hughes has been making headlines for his vocal, viral criticisms of the Albanese government's sweeping tax and negative gearing reforms.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Mule restaurant owners Will and Rory at their new venue in Torquay.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Chiquita Searle, a public relations director, has been happily single for 15 years.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Yumbos ice cream in Carlton North is closing. Toni Romeo, with colleague Brett Costa, and customers including Amanda Atkins, Diane Davidson and Paul Ekers.Credit:Simon Schluter

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La Mama Theatre architect Meg White (left) and chief executive Caitlin Dullard rebuilt the cultural institution from the ground up, while holding on to its history.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Wesley Hines, a truck driver who, as a teenager, found a baby's body in a dam in Ballarat.Credit:Jason South

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Professor Michael Dooley's research in the British Medical Journal Supportive & Palliative Care essentially ends a multi-decade drought of data, providing the first peer-reviewed clinical evidence on oral assisted-dying medications since the Netherlands published research in 2000.Credit:Jason South

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Ric and Steph Perna at their rented home in St Leonards on the Bellarine Peninsula. Ric has been diagnosed with terminal blood cancer as a result of not being protected adequately in his workplace. He is now taking legal action (after receiving a small payout) as lawyers are pushing for reform in how workplace cancers are dealt with in Australia.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Restaurant owner Mais Mazloum is optimistic about the future of Chapel Street.Credit:Simon Schluter

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The Tartan Festival, celebrated 100 years since the world tour of the Australian Ladies Pipe Band, 100 female bagpipe players and drummers. At City Square after the annual Tartan Festival march are Helen Dilks, 75, with Scarlett Cai, 13.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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The Gospel Hall Melbourne church in Little Bourke Street, Chinatown.Credit:Chris Hopkins