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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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Visitors wear matching hats at the fairground on the first day of the Sydney Royal Easter Show.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
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Aiman and Salma Hampton with their daughter Farah enjoying Ramadan Nights on Haldon Street, Lakemba. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Alex Monnet, 22, at home in Hazelbrook. For Alex, climate change is high on the agenda as an election issue and the Coalition is failing dismally in her eyes.Credit:Dean Sewell
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The press pack awaits Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Neville Smith Forest Products saw mill in Launceston, in the seat of Bass. Credit:James Brickwood
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Swimmers at Bondi Icebergs pool enjoy the April sunshine.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Elly Baxter with her son, Kit. There is growing demand for natural birth centres but more women are being redirected back to hospital instead.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
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Guest of honour Princess Anne arrives at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. Following the death of her father Prince Philip last year, she became patron of the Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Strings Attached performer Lee-Anne Litton running through a dress rehearsal, as part of the MONUMENTAL performances at the Art Gallery of NSW.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Former New South Wales Arts minister Don Harwin poses at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, in Sydney. The retired NSW Liberal moderate has a message for the political pundits: don’t write off Scott Morrison yet.Credit:Sam Mooy
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A young swimmer enjoys a sunny autumn day at Maroubra Beach, but more rain and colder conditions are on the way.Credit:James Alcock
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The spinning chair ride is proving popular at the Royal Easter Show at Olympic Park.Credit:James Alcock
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Verry Elleegant owner Brae Sokolski at Riverside Stables at Warwick Farm Racecourse.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Radiographer at RPA and HSU delegate Trisha Hann. Ms Hann said radiographers were understaffed even before the pandemic. Earlier in the pandemic, staff shortages arose because of strict rules about close contacts. Now it was because the virus was so widespread.Credit:Flavio Brancaleone
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Long queues form at Sydney Airport on Thursday on the busiest day for domestic travel in two years. Credit:Oscar Colman
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Young people gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Kirribilli residence for a School Strike 4 Climate protest.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits manufacturing business SpanSet Australia in the seat of Lindsay, with Lindsay MP Melissa McIntosh.Credit:James Brickwood
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Children have fun feeding the animals in the animal nursery at the Royal Easter show.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Gennaro Autore, founding Director, Graaf Group with his dog Nero. As exclusive licensee he chose 25 Martin Place as a key destination to launch the flagship stores of well-known international brands Missoni and Brunello Cucinelli in the Australian market. Credit:Oscar Colman
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Pali and Marcelo Delgado holding a photo that a friend took at their wedding. They are victims of Ryan Schembri, an awarded wedding photographer who has let down a lot of clients. Dozens of couples are fighting to get their wedding prints, with problems dating back at least five years.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Gloria Grande lost her home in Coraki in northern NSW in the recent flood, where she has lived for 60 years. She is now planning to rebuild and hoping insurance will cover the costs. Credit:Elise Derwin
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Four thousand pieces of steel stretching more than 19 kilometres in length now form the roof of the rebuilt Sydney Football Stadium, which is almost complete ahead of its opening in September.Credit:Peter Rae
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Architect Alejo de Achaval and Krinklewood Winery owner Oscar Martin with the prefab kit home that is nominated for awards for design and sustainability, with the aesthetics and flexibility of an architect-designed house, in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Rick Hall’s parishioners at St Peter’s Anglican Church in Richmond live in a community whose faith in the future has been shaken by floods, a pandemic and bushfires. But amid that ongoing uncertainty Easter brings a message of hopeCredit:Kate Geraghty
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Muslims break their daily fast during the month of Ramadan by visiting food stalls in the evening along Haldon Street, Lakemba. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Commuters wait for buses at Strathfield train station. Sydney’s inner west, Liverpool, Fairfield and Parramatta were the hardest hit by a reduction in bus services on Monday after up to 70 per cent of drivers in those areas took part in a 24-hour strike. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Early childhood teacher Freya Rodgers with children at Goodstart Early Learning in North Sydney. Early childhood educators are pushing for more resources to be invested in the sector as evidence emerges that repeated COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions have affected children’s development. Credit:Oscar Colman
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Hundreds of apartments in towers up to 45 storeys proposed for the Sydney Fish Market site on Blackwattle Bay should be built in shorter blocks, buffered by a wider foreshore promenade, according to the City of Sydney.Credit:Peter Rae
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A woman's body is retrieved after washing up on Bronte Beach on Wednesday morning.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Hermidale Public School has been donated a 85-hectare paddock behind the school by a local farmer, an ex-student. The school's seven students will learn farming practices by growing a crop of wheat, which is estimated to return $40,000 for the school.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Travelers negotiate crowds at the Departure Terminal at Sydney Airport at the beginning of Easter School Holidays . Credit:James Alcock
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Patrons take in the evening sounds and colours of the Royal Easter Show 2022 at Sydney's Olympic Park.Credit:James Alcock
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The Nepean River caused a second round of chaos in Camden, on the south-western outskirts of Sydney, peaking at just over 12 metres. Furniture could be seen stuck in windows as waters receded.Credit:Nick Moir
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Neville Smith Forest Products in Launceston, in the seat of Bass. Credit:James Brickwood
