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The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers. Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH
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Actors Zoe Iannou, Genevieve Lemon and Aaron Tsindos are starring in the new rock musical Dubbo Championship Wrestling at the Hayes Theatre.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Claus Stangl, winner of the Packing Room Prize with a portrait of Taika Waititi, chosen by head packer Brett Cuthbertson ahead of the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Andrew Marks Orion, shaman and healer. Orion facilitates trips to Peru for people to use the psychedelic drug ayahuasca, often for use battling addiction or PTSD.Credit:Nick Moir
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Double Beat artists Sophia Ndaba, Isabel Estrella and Samantha Hines during rehearsals at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta. Credit:Louise Kennerley
5/29
Diego Bonetto foraging in Sydney. Due to high level rains in NSW, there has never been a better time to forage for wild foods and edible weeds.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant.Credit:James Brickwood
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Art Gallery of NSW head packer Brett Cuthbertson has countless memories from his 40 years working with the biggest names in Australian art. He has announced his retirement because, he says, his body can’t take it any more.Credit:Nick Moir
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Mouners attend Mahomoud "Brownie" Ahmad's funeral at Rookwood cemetery. Ahmad was shot dead outside a Greenacre property.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Scott Johnson's family leave King Street Supreme Court for the final time after Scott White was sentenced for killing their son at a gay beat in 1988.Credit:Peter Rae
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Jamil Hopoate arriving at Downing Centre Local Court. Jamil pleaded guilty on Thursday to supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug after he was caught in the police operation on May 18, 2021.Credit:Rhett Wyman
11/29
Guy Sebastian departs the Downing Centre. Guy began his evidence in the NSW District Court on Wednesday at the trial of his former manager who allegedly embezzled $900,000 in royalties and income.Credit:Brook Mitchell
12/29
Friends Mark Badadzhanian and Kalan Markson, with Denis Obrskyi (centre) who has just arrived from Ukraine, and now studies at Xavier College.Credit:Brook Mitchell
13/29
Midwife Mel Briggs with Hayley Williams and her four week old baby, Jaari, in Nowra, NSW. Mel is wearing her new uniform which identifies her as Indigenous, so that Indigenous mothers can feel assured they will get culturally appropriate care. Credit:Janie Barrett
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A group of relatives during a memorial above the wreck site of the SS Wollongbar 12 kilometres offshore from Port Macquarie. On April 29 1943, the merchant ship Wollongbar II was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. Only five survived out of a crew of 37.Credit:Matt Jorgensen
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Teachers rallied in Hyde Park then marched to NSW Parliament House along Macquarie Street fighting for a wage rise. Credit:Nick Moir
16/29
Anthony Albanese smells an apple tart that has just been made, during a visit to a commercial cooking class at the Holmesglen Institute in the seat of Chisholm, in Melbourne.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Scott Morrison visits Lark Distillery in Hobart with Liberal candidate for Lyons Susie Bower.Credit:James Brickwood
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese out of COVID-19 isolation with his dog Toto at HJ Mahoney Memorial Park in Marrickville.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Scott Morrison visits Todd Park with the Kogarah Cougars junior rugby league club in the seat of Cook.Credit:James Brickwood
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Students enjoying their lunch break without phones. Newington College introduced a ban in late 2018, telling students to keep them in their locker during the day because they led to lower concentration, higher stress and “warped views on reality”.Credit:Peter Rae
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Juliana Lee and her two children Nang Ja Lee, 8, and Ashton Lee, 7, play in a car park in Wentworth Point.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Sydney Metro rail tunnel construction.Credit:Louie Douvis
23/29
Author Diana Reid, who was named one of the three 2022 Young Australian Novelists of the Year. Credit:Wolter Peeters
24/29
NSW high school students Radhika Valanju, Meera Barani and Dominik Mautner, have had a paper published in the Lancet on top health concerns.Credit:Louise Kennerley
25/29
Beatrice Galton, new senior curator at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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First home buyers Daniel Lewis and Georgia Barnes are prepared for mortgage payments to go up after it was announced that rates would rise, and know they will have to cut back on discretionary spending. Credit:Steven Siewert
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Jamie Ingram on Carrington Street, where he was the first man to bring down killer Mert Ney.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe during a press conference after announcing a rates rise. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Teenage boys finish off their game of golf before the light goes and the rain hits at Bondi Golf and Diggers Club.Credit:Jessica Hromas
