The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
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Twin sisters Heidi and Elsie, 6 years old from Eaglemont in the Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne on the first day of Spring.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Split Point Lighthouse, Aireys Inlet. The lighthouse operators have run the place for 19 years, but now under a new lease the state government agency could run their own tours and undermine their business.Credit:Joe Armao
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Kerrupmara-Gunditjmara Boandig man Travis Lovett, whose tribal totem is the red tailed black cockatoo.Credit:Justin McManus
4/20
The windmill house on Windmill Rise has been a feature of Diamond Creek since being built by Dutchman Peter Van Wunnik in 1974.Credit:Joe Armao
5/20
AFLW player Sophie Alexander wants to keep her day job as paramedic.Credit:Jason South
6/20
Chef Jo Barrett has released a range of WildPies, made with wild game meat.Credit:Jason Robins
7/20
Taige and Bonnie Weir on the last days of horses working, Trevenson Park, Maldon. Credit:Jason South
8/20
Firefighter Fiona Macken lives only a kilometre from the Diamond Creek CFA station, meaning she is often on the first truck out in an emergency.Credit:Joe Armao
9/20
Diamond Creek Regional PlayspaceCredit:Joe Armao
10/20
Matthew Francis, Nathan Farrell and Mark Wilson (Jet bass player), who run the newly re-opened Punters Club, Fitzroy.Credit:Simon Schluter
11/20
The South Eastern Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is one of five subspecies of Red Tail Black Cockatoos across Australia and the most endangered, with less than 1500 remaining in the wild.Credit:Justin McManus
12/20
AFL Hawthorn Football player Josh WeddleCredit:Justin McManus
13/20
Will Barlow and daughter Isla, 2, check out the cherry blossoms in the Royal Botanic Gardens.Credit:Penny Stephens
14/20
Sigrid Ganeson chopped down a 120-year-old, 4m high cypress hedge after being repeatedly warned by her local council that she was in breach of disability access laws. Whitehorse Council is increasingly cracking down on residential hedges that intrude onto the footpath, but some residents fear the area’s environmental heritage and character is under attack.Credit:Justin McManus
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Professor Barbora de CourtenCredit:Simon Schluter
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Andre Obradovic says his power bills are significantly cheaper since he linked them to the wholesale market through Amber.Credit:Jason South
17/20
The last days of horses working on Trevenson Park, Maldon.Credit:Jason South
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Kathryn Joy has done a documentary about the tragedy of her mother who was killed by her father when she was a young child.Credit:Eddie Jim
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Author Laura J. Carroll at the Tynong quarry where stone was sourced for the Shrine.Credit:Justin McManus
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Hawthorn captain James Sicily.Credit:Justin McManus
