The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.
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Anna North in her Waterloo unit. North is among public housing residents anxious about the redevelopment of the Waterloo estate, eight years after they were first told they would have to move.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
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NRL player Dylan Brown leaves Downing Centre after his case is adjourned.Credit:Nick Moir
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People are seen at Milsons Point as heavy fog sits on Sydney Harbour.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Newly appointed director of the NSW Education Department Murat Dizdar with year 9 student Zainab Mohammad Amin and other students at Cabramatta High School.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos
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Budjerah Julum Slabb, known as Budjerah, an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter from Fingal Head, NSW, playing at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid.Credit:James Brickwood
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Kathleen Folbigg's lawyer Rhanee Rego and friend Tracy Chapman hold a press conference.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Senior constable David Jarnet with police dog Polar searching the Rundle Street building fire site in Sydney's CBD.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Spike Jnr, a five-year-old rescue cat, at the opening of the NSW Animal Welfare League in Kemps Creek.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Commuters in Barangaroo Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Paul Nicolaou in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Nicolaou wrote to the NSW government asking for Vivid in the Botanic Garden to be made free, and also supports New Year's Eve being free for the community.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A green turtle named Anna is released back into the wild outside Sydney Heads. Anna and another turtle, named Seven Hook, were released after recovering from injuries at the Taronga Wild Life Hospital.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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VIVID Sydney 2023, Darling Harbour to Barangaroo walk.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos
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Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous UNSW and a Professor of Law, UNSW Law and member of the Voice working group.Credit:James Brickwood
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Country Liberal Senator for the Northern Territory and critic of the Voice to Parliament in its current proposed form.Credit:James Brickwood
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Dean Parkin, from the Quandamooka People of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island),in Queensland, was a facilitator for 12 regional dialogues and the Uluru Constitutional Convention.Credit:James Brickwood
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Thomas Mayo, a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man. He is a union official with the MUA and is an advocate in the campaign for a constitutionally enshrined Voice and member of the Voice working group.Credit:James Brickwood
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Jaguar Jonze, one of the most outspoken figures in the #MeToo movement in Australia, rehearses in a studio in Brisbane ahead of her performance at Vivid LIVE in a work that utilises shibari (Japanese bondage) and performance.Credit:Paul Harris
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Commuters in a ferry on Sydney Harbour.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Dr Samantha Crompvoets was commissioned by the Department of Defence in 2015 to produce a report on culture within the special forces. Some of her inquiries led to members disclosing claims of unlawful behaviour, including alleged war crimes. She is now saying they should be stripped of their medals.Credit:Danielle Smith
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Harry Garside leaves court after having domestic violence charges dropped.Credit:Nick Moir
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2023 Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) medallist Professor Manu Platt during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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The former Harbourside Shopping Centre and Monorail station being demolished at Darling Harbour.Credit:Nick Moir
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Steve Johnson, with wife Rosemary and daughter Tess, outside the NSW Supreme Court after the sentence hearing for Scott White, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Scott Johnson at Manly in 1988.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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An unoccupied building in Sydney on the corner of Oxford Street and South Dowling Street, Paddington.Credit:Nick Moir
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joins Western Sydney Airport staff and Allan Joyce for an announcement.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Celtic supporters watching the Scottish Cup final at Sydney Celtic Club at Scruffy Murphy's.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
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Architect Belinda Koopman with home owners Ellen and Gary Smith at Trilogy House, Newport, designed by Belinda Koopman from Peter Stutchbury architecture.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Representatives from Liberals for Yes: Ross Macdonald, Nicole Lawder, Tom Adam, Elizabeth Lee, Gary Humphries, Kate Carnell and Mark Parton.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Mr Monopoly has his eyes on Bondi Beach real estate. There are plenty of custom-made localised editions of the board game Monopoly and now there are plans for a Bondi version.Credit:Jessica Hromas
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Catherine Van-Davies is leading a new wave of diverse theatre in Sydney as co-artistic director of Old Fitzroy Theatre.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Philip Lowe, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Fifth Australia Summit in Sydney. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Smoky Cravings in Lakemba: Joshua Alfomso and Ahrizel Ocampo prepare many different BBQ meats.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos
