The Age photos of the week, September 13, 2025

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The Australian Ballet revealed its 2026 season on Tuesday. Credit:Eddie Jim

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AFL Hawthorn footballer Jack GunstonCredit:Wayne Taylor

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Funeral for the policeman Vadim De Waart at the Police Academy in Glen WaverleyCredit:Eddie Jim

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The family leaves the service for policeman Vadim De Waart at the Police Academy in Glen WaverleyCredit:Eddie Jim

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Ray Kompe speaks to media after Police and CIRT officers searched his Buckland Valley property. Pictured with his dog LunaCredit:Jason South

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Simone Heald, chief executive of North Richmond Community Health and the Safe Injecting Room service.Credit:Paul Jeffers

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MJ uses a safe injecting room four to five times a week.Credit:Simon Schluter

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Paul Gosney and his former ‘camp dog’ Moana. Aussie Desert Dogs is based in Yuendemu, 300km north-west of Alice Springs, and re-homes ‘camp dogs’ - stray dogs - to new homes all over Australia, including hundreds that have gone to Victoria like MoanaCredit:Chris Hopkins

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Bella Bown is one of Melbourne’s young city dwellers who are part of the rising popularity of country music Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Inside one of the many abandoned mine shafts that dot the countryside around Porepunkah in the area where Dezi Freeman has disappeared and the manhunt continuesCredit:Jason South

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Cheryl Soafkin and her 37-year-old son, Jeremy, who lives with severe autism. For 17 years Jeremy has lived in a disability group home in Camberwell, which will soon be closed by its operator, Scope.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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Camp Sovereignty in Kings Domain where people who had just finished performing and observing a weekly ceremony and celebration of culture were attacked by Neo-Nazi’s after the march for Australia event. Two women were injured with one requiring around six staples in a head wound. Elders and community performing a cleansing ceremony to rid the sacred place of the evil presence of the Nazi’sCredit:Justin McManus

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Yarran Couzens-Bundle who was caught up in the attack is comforted by a friend at a cleansing ceremony at Camp Sovereignty in Kings DomainCredit:Justin McManus

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The revamped Quiet Man hotel in Kensington, now known as Auntie Annie’s. The historic Quiet Man pub, known for its strong community ties, is back open with a new name, and is now in the hands of two publicans who met while working at the pub many years ago. A fine-dining restaurant, Enbarr’s, has been addedCredit:Joe Armao

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Mother of three Felicity Forrester has lived at the corner of Williamstown Road for two decades and she is angry that the road has not been given any truck curfews or bans when the West Gate Tunnel Project opens, despite trucks forecast to double down this road as it is a way to avoid paying high tollsCredit:Jason South

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Elbino Akueng, right, pleads for justice after his 15-year-old son, Dau Akueng, was stabbed to death in Cobblebank.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

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Mikhaela Delahunty and daughters Evie, 11 (left) and Georgia, 12 (right). Delahunty is pro school uniform but quite relaxed about how it is enforced.Credit:Chris Hopkins

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A police helicopter searches the heights of Mount Buffalo for the fugitive Dezi FreemanCredit:Eddie Jim

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Manhunt for Dezi Freeman and Police search operation continues in the forest near Mount BuffaloCredit:Eddie Jim

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Jimmy Li, the president of the Chinese Australians for Peace Association. Jimmy is storing a comfort statue in his garage which was displayed publicly at a concert to commemorate the end of WWII, and show the statues. The Association are hoping for a place where they can be permanently displayed. There’s some controversy over the statues, with Japan previously stating it was unhappy about them being publicly displayedCredit:Chris Hopkins

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Station master Christine Rodrigues outside Arden station, adorned with Abdul Abdullah’s artwork Come Together.Credit:Justin McManus

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Erin Patterson leaves court after being sentenced to life in prison on Monday.Credit:Wayne Taylor

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Survivor, Ian Wilkinson outside Melbourne Supreme court following the sentencing of triple murderer Erin Patterson Credit:Jason South

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Funeral for fallen police officer Det. Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson at the Victorian Police Academy. Thompson along with fellow officer Senior Constable Vadim De Waart were allegedly killed by Dezi Freeman while serving a warrant for his arrest at a property near Porepunkah. The hearse makes it’s way through the Police Guard of Honour.Credit:Justin McManus

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Grieving family and friends including Neal’s partner Sergeant Lisa Thompson at the funeral for fallen police officer Det. Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson at the Victorian Police AcademyCredit:Justin McManus

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Beach Boxes around Mt Martha show some disrepair due to inundation of tides and encroaching waterlines along the foreshore, Mornington PeninsulaCredit:Simon Schluter

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Former editors of The University of Melbourne’s student newspaper ‘Farrago’, Prue Walker, Matt Healy and Kath Fethers, reminisce over the 1989 issues they oversaw publication onCredit:Chris Hopkins

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Aunty Jill Gallagher is comforted by First Peoples’ Assembly co-chairs Rueben Berg (left) and Ngarra Murray (right) as treaty legislation is introduced to state parliament VictoriaCredit:Justin McManus

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Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College students (from left) Sabrina Towers, Allie Allan and Sophia Hamilton have been inspired by the K-pop stardom of former student Roseanne Park.Credit:Justin McManus

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Charlotte Warke is opposed to development in Brighton where up to 12 storey buildings are proposed to be builtCredit:Paul Jeffers

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A mourner at the Tuesday night vigil to honour two boys, 12yr old Chol Achiek and 15yr old Dau Akueng who were stabbed and died in CobblestoneCredit:Justin McManus

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Teagan Clarke, a Melbourne PhD student is at the forefront of a major new astronomical discovery involving the collision of two black holes, which have been precisely recorded for the first time ever, allowing scientists to prove the theories of Hawking and EinsteinCredit:Jason South

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Chef de partie Harrison Delaporte and head chef Matteo Tine. (R) at Southern Italian restaurant Cantina MoroCredit:Simon Schluter

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Family and friends of Luke Briggs gather at the scene in Werribee on the first anniversary of his death.Credit:Eddie Jim

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Real Estate Institute of Victoria chief executive Jacob Caine is leading discussions about Victoria’s price guide rules.Credit:Joe Armao

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Zara Lim took 18 months away from her job in digital marketing to travelCredit:Chris Hopkins

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11-year-old Dakota Lin is gifted in balletCredit:Eddie Jim