The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers. Follow us on Twitter @photosSMH
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UK singer/songwriter Louis Tomlinson performs at the Hordern Pavilion. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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State Library senior curator Elise Edmonds in the new exhibition featuring rare medical books from previous centuries.Credit:Nick Moir
3/31
Sunny skies and heavy swell at Mahon Pool in Maroubra.Credit:Brook Mitchell
4/31
Weak storms and thunder showers cross over the Sydney basin just before dawn.Credit:Nick Moir
5/31
Isaac Campbell's North Lismore house was severely damaged in the flood disaster and he is now facing problems with the damage assessment.Credit:Natalia Grono
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Matt Weston with his son, Jacob, 5, who is a leukaemia patient. Matt will be able to donate blood from next week, as an estimated 750,000 people who lived in the UK for six months or longer in the 1980s or 1990s are now allowed to donate blood in Australia.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Lucas Cairns with his teenage son Jazziah at their home. Both are recent heart transplant recipients. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Sheep farmer Jenny Bradley on her property with her husband Craig. The couple, who run New Armatree, a Border Leicester stud farm near Dubbo, are fighting to keep out foot and mouth disease.Credit:Nicole McGuire
9/31
Tom Ward of Swinging Bridge Wines in his vineyard near Orange. Credit:Monique Lovick
10/31
Crowds swarm the streets of Byron Bay after the Splendour in the Grass festival was cancelled on its first day due to bad weather.Credit:Natalie Grono
11/31
Year 4 students Priya Virek, Serena Attanasio, Arlo Lewis and Minh Nguyen from Ashfield Primary School, just after finishing a two-and-a-half hour opportunity class exam for academically gifted students.Credit:Dean Sewell
12/31
Peter and Ruby Dykes with their granddaughter Shireen, 3, at a smoking ceremony before the inquest findings into the death of Douglas 'Mootiah' Shillingsworth, a Budjiti and Murrawarri man who died in custody from an untreated ear infection.Credit:Dean Sewell
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Forensic investigators at the house of Shereen Kumar, whose body was discovered dumped in bushland in Sydney’s Hills District.Credit:Oscar Colman
14/31
Manly coach Des Hasler addresses the media and apologises on behalf of the club for a situation where seven players refused to wear a pride jersey.Credit:Nick Moir
15/31
Suspended Manly NRL player Manase Vehikite Am Fainu leaves Parramatta District Court. He has pleaded not guilty to wounding a man in a fight outside a church.Credit:Rhett Wyman
16/31
Ben Roberts-Smith entering the Federal Court, Sydney, during his defamation case.Credit:Nick Moir
17/31
Tom Zreika, Chairman of AusRelief, and Dr Jamal Rifi in Belmore. They have hired a submarine to locate the bodies of refugees whose boat sank off the coast of Lebanon.Credit:Janie Barrett
18/31
Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) director Danielle Harvey with co-curators Simon Longstaff and Ann Mossop, all hooked up to lie-detector tests from the Counterpilot Truthmachine project at Carriageworks.Credit:Oscar Colman
19/31
Minister for Metropolitan Roads Natalie Ward speaks to media about the Western Harbour Tunnel, at the Rozelle Interchange.Credit:Rhett Wyman
20/31
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the Welcome to Country ceremony to open the 47th Parliament at Parliament House, Canberra.Credit:James Brickwood
21/31
Milton Dick is 'dragged' to the Speaker's chair after being elected as the new Speaker in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
22/31
Crossbench MPs Dr Sophie Scamps, Kate Chaney, Dr Monique Ryan, Zoe Daniel, Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender in discussion during debate in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
23/31
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the opening of the 47th Parliament, at Parliament House in Canberra.Credit:The Sydney Morning Herald
24/31
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former prime minister John Howard ahead of a Last Post ceremony to mark the first sitting of the 47th Australian Parliament, at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
25/31
Katherine Maiorca and her children Imogen, 12, Nicholas, 16, and Sammy, 14, in front of their family home in Sutherland, which has had major defects during its construction.Credit:James Alcock
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Nada Hamad, who is suffering from long COVID.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Caroline Kennedy greets the press at Sydney Airport before taking up her post as US ambassador to Australia. Credit:Brook Mitchell
28/31
Jatinderpal Singh, an Amazon Flex courier, is now suing the online shopping giant for unfair dismissal.Credit:Oscar Colman
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Charlie Hourigan, Remy Scott, Felix Connor and Ceilim O'Kelly at rugby training on a artificial grass oval in Rose Bay.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Northern Beaches Council is scrapping plans for a new cycleway network in Avalon after massive community backlash from residents' associations. Howard Dawson and Shelley Shoalten are keen cyclists who would have liked more cycling infrastructure in the area and find the opposition odd, given the environmentally conscious politics of the area. Credit:James Brickwood
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Bali cattle at Sada Sari Cow Farm, Kubu Anyar village in Kuta, the during foot and mouth disease outbreak in Bali.Credit:Amilia Rosa
