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Photos of the week, May 27, 2021
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A supermoon is seen rising over Canberra with Parliament House in the foreground.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Sunbeams shine through fog at Milsons Point. While it’s too soon for scarves (unless you’re at the footy) and gloves, the decidedly chilly turn of the past few weeks has had Sydneysiders thrusting their hands deeper into their pockets and pulling an extra layer out of the cupboard before heading to work. In what is usually a season of sniffles and snuffles, the pandemic has us all a little more cautious about being out and about in grey and drizzly weather.Credit:Nick Moir
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Thousands of students and participants from environmental groups gathered in Sydney’s CBD on Friday for the first major climate strike since the coronavirus pandemic began last year. They were joined by thousands more at similar protests in more than 50 cities and towns around the country.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Peranakan Place owner Sam Wong with his dish Ayam Bush Keluak (chicken braised with keluak nuts).Credit:Sam Mooy
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Comedian and design enthusiast Tim Ross at home. Tim is best known for His performances in "Man About the House".Credit:Wolter Peeters
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The Glenmore Park Brumbies under 6 team trains at Ched Towns Reserve, Glenmore Park. The Herald has obtained new figures showing a fall in rugby league participation that is being used by the NRL to justify the code’s high tackle blitz.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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NSW Opposition leader Jodi McKay leaving home. The Upper Hunter byelection result, in which the party’s primary vote dropped to 20 per cent, has put renewed scrutiny on Ms McKay’s leadership.Credit:Nick Moir
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A recent genetics paper, also from researchers at Australian National University, says DNA testing suggests the effective population size of swift parrots could be as few as 300 in the wild, meaning their existence is more precarious than previously thought. Dr Matthew Webb, a swift parrot expert at Australian National University says “From personal experience it’s really clear there are an awful lot less birds remaining than when I first started, just in terms of trying to find them, we’re down to such critical levels of breeding habitat ... there are astonishingly small areas available.” In winter, swift parrots fly across the Bass Strait, where they have been clocked at 85km/h, to feed on flowering eucalypts on the mainland, before returning to Tasmania to nest in tree hollows. These hollows only form when trees are about 150 years old, meaning parrots rely on old-growth forests for survival. In Victoria, old-growth logging has been banned, and all native forest logging will end by 2030, but in Tasmania and NSW it continues.Credit:Jason South
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Wesley,5. The Moriaty Foundation's Indi Kindy is a program for children in remote Aboriginal communities, integrating health, wellbeing, education and development. A review of the program has found it has bridged the gap in early childhood education by reaching 80 per cent of Indigenous preschool-aged children in Borroloola and nearby Robinson River on the Gulf of Carpentaria.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Crowds moshing to band "Speakin of Which" at the Old Manly Boatshed. Just under one-third of non-domestic assault incidents recorded by the NSW Police involve alcohol and during the week (Monday to Thursday) almost 20% of non-domestic assault incidents involve alcohol with the figure rising to 30% of incidents on Fridays, then peaks at almost half of all assaults on the weekend (45%). Credit:Sam Mooy
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Pamela Rabe will be performing in Belvoir Theatre's production of The Cherry Orchard in Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Homebush vaccination center. Eligible NSW residents have been urged to come forward for their coronavirus vaccines as a group of four mystery cases in Melbourne showed Australia remains vulnerable to community transmission of COVID-19. People aged 50 and over in NSW are eligible from Monday to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at GPs, Commonwealth respiratory and NSW Health clinics, including the Sydney Olympic Park vaccination hub.Credit:Dean Sewell
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Sarah Liu, managing director of leadership consultancy The Dream Collective, says women occupy just 17 per cent of all roles in the tech industry, suggesting the biases create significant barriers. Those barriers are so significant that to raise the number of women in the sector, employers and female job candidates must take heed.Credit:Louie Douvis
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The member of Kogarah, Chris Minns with his son at their home in Sans Souci on the morning he resigns from the NSW Labor frontbench.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Former Rockpool chef Phil Wood is set to open his first independent restaurant in Sydney later this year, on the Paddington site formerly occupied by Guillaume Brahimi.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Former Australian of the Year, Dr John Wu AC, with the collection of SE Asian art he (and his late partner - fellow paediatrician- Dr George Souter AM) built over 50 years. Its now going to be shown for the first time publicly at the Mosman Art Gallery. It's one of the most significant SE Asian private collections in Australia.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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(L-R) Sharon McLennan, Vikkie Hoult, William, Irene McLennan, McLennan,Veronica McLennan and Jeniffer Hale. Stolen Generation survivor Irene McLennan is part of Northern Territory Stolen Generations Class Action. Darwin.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Alasdair MacLeod, on his property, Bloomfield near Yass. MacLeod, the husband of Rich Lister Prudence MacLeod and the son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch, is the owner of Wilmot Cattle Company, which operates two farms in the New England district of northern NSW. Over the past decade, the investor, entrepreneur and former News Corporation director has become a passionate advocate for regenerative farming, a practice that promotes the careful management of pastures – in his case guided by state-of-the-art technology – to improve efficiency and reduce environmental damage.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Nurse Megan Brady with Kyla Joy at Concord Hospital. When Kyla Joy was imagining her life-changing surgery in Australia, getting stuck in the wrong city was not part of the plan. Yet, arriving in Victoria just before the world shut down in March 2020, lockdown meant the Filipino teenager was unable to travel to Sydney for her operations later that year.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Anthony William Peter Caruana leaves Downing Centre Courts where he is facing trial, charged with the indecent assault of 12 boys during the 1980s. Credit:Kate Geraghty