The Age photos of the week, May 2, 2026

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Thornton Eildon Football Club players listen to the pre-game address by coach Tash Hay. The Thornton Shinboners are the only all-female club in Victoria.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Servicemen take a break after the Anzac Day march and dawn service in Melbourne.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Professor David Komander, Marco Jochem and Dr Simon Cobbold at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville. They are publishing a paper in Nature revealing a more direct way of targeting sugar in the body than Ozempic.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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Atticus Iliou Horn, 14, Zoe Kalanis, 15, and Peter Sofiadellis, 14, study classical Greek and were hoping to continue it into VCE, but the subject is now at risk of being dropped.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS

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Pascal Huron opened his small French casse-croûte in Little Collins Street about five months ago.Credit:Joe Armao

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Professor Andrew Pask, of the University of Melbourne and Colossal Biosciences, with the skull of a Tasmanian tiger and the skeleton of a Moa, a flightless bird from New Zealand.Credit:Jason South

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Melburnians pay their respects at the Anzac Day dawn service.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Grandmother Peggy Rockman Granites cries as she remembers her granddaughter Kumanjayi Little Baby at the Old Timers Camp, Alice Springs.Credit:Sam Mooy

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A “walkalong” with police officers to look at various aspects of retail crime on Chapel Street and the Prahran shopping district.Credit:Joe Armao

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Hatem Saleh, founder of The Atlantic restaurant, is leaving Crown after 15 years. Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Anzac Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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ACMI film programmer Spiro Economopoulos.Credit:Jason South

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Cyclists ride through Brunswick to advocate for safer bike lanes.Credit:Joe Armao

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Performers Rebecca Rashleigh and Christopher Tonkin with Suzanne Chaundy, director of The Rake Punished, which is playing at the Athenaeum.Credit:Justin McManus

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Amanda Thompson, who survived strangulation as part of family violence perpetrated on her, worries her paramedic daughter could see women who are not as fortunate as she was.Credit:Justin McManus

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Lahiri Bellarykar and son Anagh. Anagh catches the bus to school every morning from the Riverwalk housing estate to Werribee Secondary College. Lahiri is pushing for better bus services for schoolchildren in the western suburbs.Credit:Jason South

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Surgeon Graham Starkey (left) and Frank Giamarelos, who is the first double organ transplant recipient to receive two perfused organs in Australia. Credit:Justin McManus

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Mitch Ryan and Kay Jackson have booked a cruise in Europe. Jackson is now unsure whether she will take the trip because of costs and disruptions to global air travel through the Persian Gulf.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Brunswick Street between Johnston Street and Victoria Parade is the slowest part of the tram network.Credit:Ruby Alexander

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Viva Energy chief executive Scott Wyatt.Credit:Wayne Taylor